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The Aviméta 132 was a French three-engined
monoplane
A monoplane is a fixed-wing aircraft configuration with a single mainplane, in contrast to a biplane or other types of multiplanes, which have multiple wings.
A monoplane has inherently the highest efficiency and lowest drag of any wing con ...
transport for eight-passengers designed and built by
Aviméta (''Société pour la Construction d'Avions Métallique ''). It was the first French all-metal aircraft but only one aircraft was built.
Design and development
The Aviméta 132 was a high-wing monoplane with a fixed
conventional landing gear
Conventional landing gear, or tailwheel-type landing gear, is an aircraft Landing gear, undercarriage consisting of two main wheels forward of the Center of gravity of an aircraft, center of gravity and a small wheel or skid to support the tail ...
, powered by three uncowled
Salmson 9Ab
Between 1920 and 1951 the Société des Moteurs Salmson in France developed and built a series of widely used air-cooled aircraft engines.Gunston 1986, p. 158.
Design and development
After their successful water-cooled radial engines, developed ...
radial air-cooled piston engines. Fuel tanks were built into the wings, fitted with jettison valves to empty the tanks in an emergency. The enclosed cockpit sat two crew with a cabin for eight passengers. It was intended to build both a day and night version but only one aircraft was built and it did not enter production.
Specifications (day version)
References
Further reading
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132 132 may refer to:
* 132 (number), the natural number following 131 and preceding 133
*AD 132, a leap year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar
* 132 BC, a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar
* 132 (MBTA bus), a Massachusetts Bay Transportati ...
1920s French airliners
Trimotors
High-wing aircraft