The Brochet MB.70 was a two-seat light aircraft developed in

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in the early 1950s for recreational flying and amateur construction.

Design and development

It was a high-wing braced

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of conventional configuration that seated the pilot and passenger in tandem within a fully enclosed cabin. It was fitted with fixed tailwheel

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layout and was of all-wooden construction. Progress was hastened by the publication of a ''Service de l'Aviation Légère et Sportive'' requirement for a new light aircraft for French aeroclubs, and a series of development machines were built with a variety of different

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, eventually leading to the definitive Brochet MB.80.Simpson, 2005, p.71

Variants

* MB.70 - prototype powered by Salmson 9Adb radial (1 built) * MB.71 - version with Minié 4.DC.32 engine (1 built) * MB.72 - version with

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horizontally opposed four-cylinder engine (5 built) * MB.73 - version with Continental A65-85 horizontally opposed four-cylinder engine (1 converted from the MB.70) * MB.76 - version with

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-14F horizontally opposed four-cylinder engine (1 built)

Units using this aircraft

Private and club pilots

Specifications (MB.72)

References

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