{{Short description|1950s French light aircraft}} {{Infobox aircraft |name=MB.70 Series |image=Brochet MB.76 Chavenay 04.06.67.jpg |caption=The Brochet MB.76 at Chavenay airfield near Paris in June 1967 |type=Sports plane |manufacturer=Brochet |designer=Maurice Brochet |first_flight=28 January 1950<ref>de Narbonne January 2010, p. 79</ref> |introduction= |retired= |status= |primary_user= |more_users= |produced= |number_built=8 |variants= }} The '''Brochet MB.70''' was a two-seat light aircraft developed in France in the early 1950s for recreational flying and amateur construction.
==Design and development== It was a high-wing braced monoplane of conventional configuration that seated the pilot and passenger in tandem within a fully enclosed cabin. It was fitted with fixed tailwheel undercarriage 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 engines, eventually leading to the definitive Brochet MB.80.<ref>Simpson, 2005, p.71</ref>
==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 Continental A65 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 Continental C90-14F horizontally opposed four-cylinder engine (1 built)
==Units using this aircraft== Private and club pilots
==Specifications (MB.72) == {{Aircraft specs |prime units? = met |ref=The Aircraft of the World<ref name="aotwp38">Green and Pollinger 1965, p. 38</ref> |crew=One pilot |capacity=1 passenger |length m= |length ft=21 |length in=4 |span m= |span ft=34 |span in=6 |height m= |height ft=8 |height in=2 |wing area sqm= |wing area sqft=151 |empty weight kg= |empty weight lb=820 |gross weight kg= |gross weight lb=1,257 |eng1 number=1 |eng1 name=Continental A65 |eng1 kw=<!-- prop engines --> |eng1 hp=<!-- prop engines -->65 |max speed kmh= |max speed mph=101 |cruise speed mph=90 |climb rate ftmin=780 }}
==References== {{commons category|Brochet MB.70}} ;Notes {{reflist}} ;Bibliography
* {{cite book |last1=Green |first1=William |last2=Pollinger |first2=Gerald |title=The Aircraft of the World |year=1965 |edition=3rd |location=London |publisher=Macdonald & Co. (Publishers) }} * {{cite magazine |last=de Narbonne |first=Roland |title=Janvier 1950, dans l'aéronautique française: Et le gagnant est...un planeur |magazine=Le Fana de l'Aviation |date=January 2010 |issue=482 |pages=75–79 |language=fr}} * {{cite book |last= Simpson |first=Rod|title=The General Aviation Handbook|year=2005 |publisher=Midland Publishing|isbn=1-85780-222-5}} * {{cite book |last= Taylor |first= Michael J. H. |title=Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation |year=1989 |publisher=Studio Editions |location=London |page=215 }} * {{cite book |title=World Aircraft Information Files |publisher=Bright Star Publishing|location=London |pages=File 890 Sheet 99 }}
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