Loire 102

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type=Mailplane flying boat
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variants with their own articles=The Loire 120 was a 1930s French flying boat designed as a mailplane by Loire.

Development

The Loire 120 was designed to operate as a mailplane on the South Atlantic route between West Africa and Brazil. The prototype (registered "F-AOVV" and named "Bretagne") first flew on 12 May 1936. It was a flying boat with a two step hull on top was a superstructure with a control cabin and crew compartments. In the forward hull was a cabin for four passengers, and to the rear were holds for mail, baggage and other cargo. It had a high braced wing on top of the wing was four Hispano-Suiza 12Kbrs in tandem pairs (in tractor/pusher configuration). It originally had twin vertical tail surfaces but these were replaced with a single large fin and rudder. The aircraft had severe vibration problems which could not be fixed and "Bretagne" was scrapped in 1938 without going into service.

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*cite book |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title= The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft (Part Work 1982-1985)|year= |publisher= Orbis Publishing|location= |issn=|pages= 2378