A twin-boom giant of the 1920s: the DB-70

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The Dyle et Bacalan DB-70 can be considered the French analog to the Junkers G.38: like its German counterpart, it was a large passenger airliner built of duralumin that also had potential as a heavy bomber. Another similiarity is that both had the passengers sit in the thick wing midsection rather than the fuselage. What's more, both aircraft first flew a mere few days apart in November 1929. But whereas the G.38 enjoyed a respectable career and was even built under license by Japan, the DB-70 remained a one-off airplane, and its bomber variants were equally unsuccessful.



What if it had entered production?

[Tophe]

I have the Trait d'Union magazine, special issue devoted to Dyle & Bacalan, do you want something from it? (someday, maybe next week-end I may find it again)

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I have the Trait d'Union magazine, special issue devoted to Dyle & Bacalan, do you want something from it? (someday, maybe next week-end I may find it again)

I'd appreciate that, thanks!

[NARSES2]

That's a fantastic looking beast

[Joe C-P]

Ah the golden days of aerial innovation between the world wars. 

[Tophe]

I have the Trait d'Union magazine, special issue devoted to Dyle & Bacalan, do you want something from it? (someday, maybe next week-end I may find it again)

I'd appreciate that, thanks!

I will not scan and post dozens of pages, what would you like to see/read? (from this booklet, I can translate from French but what?)