Ebay Breguet 270

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Snautzer01

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Note the pic with the underbelly exposed. A rare view.

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I've often wondered what sort of thinking (or maybe drinking!) was behind some of the French designs of the period. How on Earth some of these shapes ever got to the drawing board (maybe they didn't, judging by some, probably just built from visualisation!), let alone built, is a real brain-buster !
 
The front end doesn't look too bad. It's that really weird tail that causes the problem. It almost looks like they forgot it and then bodied a solution by putting the tail surfaces onto a thick plank which they then nailed onto the fuselage.

I simply can't imagine the rationale for such a design. It doesn't even look aerodynamic….and such things still had some importance, even for biplanes.
 
Some time ago - while watching the start of the 1965 movie, The Liquidator - there is an introductory scene of Paris being liberated and then the camera looks skyward - I'm positive they're 270's....

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