AB 14 | |
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Role | Single-seat sesquiplane fighter aircraft |
National origin | France |
Manufacturer | Société Industrielle des Métaux et du Bois (SIMB), sometimes referred to as Ferbois |
Designer | Jean Hubert |
First flight | 1925 |
Retired | 1926 |
Number built | 1 |
Variants | Bernard SIMB AB 15 |
The Bernard SIMB AB 14 was a 1920s French single-seat sesquiplane fighter aircraft designed and built by the Société Industrielle des Métaux et du Bois (SIMB).[1][2] With a reluctance of the French authorities to purchase monoplanes the Bernard 14 was designed as a sesquiplane with Y-form struts bracing the wings on each side.[1] It was powered by a Hispano-Suiza 12Hb inline piston engine and had a fixed tailskid landing gear.[1] While on a test flight on 22 February 1926 the aircraft suffered a catastrophic structural failure of the upper wing and the only Bernard 14 was destroyed.[1]
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