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The Bernard 200 T (T for ''Tourisme'') was the first of a series of French light touring aircraft from the early 1930s. Single engined and seating three or four, they were high cantilever wing monoplanes. Four Bernard 200 T were built and subsequently modified into three further variants. ==Design and development== The Bernard 200s were the company's only attempt to break into the growing 1930s market for touring aircraft. They were clean, single-engine, cantilever high-wing aircraft with a cabin carefully thought out for potential buyers.〔 In plan the wings had straight leading edges and taper on the trailing edges. They were metal structures, built around twin spars and fabric-covered. Full-span ailerons were fitted, with flaps built into the innermost . The tail surfaces were straight-edged, swept only on their leading edges; their control surfaces were all horn balanced and fitted with trim tabs. The square-section, flat-sided fuselage behind the cabin was built around four dural longerons, fabric-covered and tapering rearwards.〔 The cabin area had a welded steel structure and was dural clad. There were doors on either side for access to the two front seats and a third door, on the port side, to a single rear seat; the fuselage was close enough to the ground to allow even the front-seat occupants to enter the cabin without a step. The cabin, long, wide and high, was lit by two pairs of side windows and by three cabin-length, cellon-covered roof windows. The instrument panel was well equipped and the cabin interior styled in the manner of a luxury car of the period. There was an internally accessible space for luggage behind the cabin.〔 The Bernard 200 T was powered by a de Havilland Gipsy III inverted four-cylinder air-cooled piston engine, driving a two-blade propeller, housed under a latched dural cowling which opened like a car bonnet. Its fixed tailwheel undercarriage had aerodynamically clean, cantilever main legs, each built from a single, tapered girder with fairings added to its leading and trailing edges. These legs were mounted on the fuselage immediately behind the front doors and at window-sill height, with pneumatic dampers inside the cabin behind the front seats; this arrangement led to the low fuselage and easy access.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bernard 200」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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