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The Bernard 190 or Bernard-Hubert 190 was a French airliner of 1928. It was a high-wing cantilevermonoplane of conventional configuration, based on the Bernard 18. Compared with its predecessor, it kept the same basic design but featured redesigned tail surfaces, an enlarged cabin, and offered its flight crew a completely enclosed cockpit. Also like its predecessor, the basic airliner model provided the basis for a long-range aircraft to be used in record attempts, the 191GR (for Grand Raid).
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Bernard 190
Bernard 191GR Oiseau Canari preserved at the Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace
The eight 190Ts entered service in 1929 with CIDNA, operating on various European routes.[1] The 190T was not popular with CIDNA, whose president had been trying for several years to purchase more efficient and economical Fokker F.VIIs. The last 190T was burnt on 3 January 1933.[2]
The 190 is best remembered for the exploits of the three 191GRs. The first built was used by Louis Coudouret in an attempt to cross the North Atlantic in August 1928. This was unsuccessful when the aircraft first refused to leave the ground in Paris, and was later turned back by Spanish authorities unwilling to permit the flight. On 7 July 1929, Coudouret crashed the aircraft near Angoulême and was killed.
The second example was used in the first successful French aerial crossing of the North Atlantic. Painted bright yellow and dubbed Oiseau Canari ("Canary Bird") it departed Old Orchard Beach, Maine, on June 13, 1929 and piloted by Jean Assolant, René Lefèvre and Armand Lotti, it completed the crossing to Oyambre Beach, near Comillas, Cantabria, Spain, in 29 hours 52 minutes, even with a stowaway (Arthur Schreiber) aboard. This aircraft is now preserved in the Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace.
The third 191GR was used by Antoine Paillard to set two world airspeed records, for 100km (62mi) with a 2,000kg (4,400lb) payload, and for 1,000km (620mi) with a 1,000kg (2,200lb) payload.
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Single-engined airliner, powered by a 358kW (480hp)Gnome et Rhône 9Ady (licence-built Bristol Jupiter) radial piston engine.[3]
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