Les avions Marcel Bloch - Tome III : Chasseurs et autres développements (Expected January 2026)

It took Marcel Bloch a long time to decide to propose a fighter jet. His first attempt was a complete failure; the plane couldn't even take off. However, the ideas he brought to this project led the French government to support him, and after numerous improvements, the industry made him one of the three main defenders of French airspace. Alongside this, Marcel Bloch continued to open new avenues and propose new aircraft, with prototypes following one after the other. This third volume presents the heyday of Marcel Bloch's aircraft as well as their fall, leading to his imprisonment and deportation during the war. But with 1,887 Bloch aircraft built partially or completely between 1929 and 1946, including 53 prototypes or experimental aircraft, he remains one of the great aviation industrialists of the 1930s. And he would bounce back again to restart with a small team of loyal supporters to give birth to a global giant of post-war aviation: Dassault Aviation. This third volume covers his first fighter planes, which crisscrossed French skies throughout the war, as well as his last prototypes and projects before this great transition to a new adventure.

This third volume totals 624 pages, more than 1000 photos, 28 color profiles and 70 drawings and plans.

TABLE OF CONTENTS of this Volume III:
THE FIGHTERS
Bloch 150
Bloch 151 prototype
Bloch 152 experimental
Bloch 153
Bloch 154
Bloch 151 and 152 production models
Bloch 151 and 152 in foreign colors
Bloch 155
Bloch 156
Bloch 157 (SO 157)
THE LARGE FOUR-ENGINE AIRCRAFT
Colonial four-engine aircraft
Bloch 160
Bloch 162 Raid
Bloch 400
Continental four-engine aircraft
Bloch 161 (SO 161 / SE 161)
Bloch 261
Bloch 164 (MB 161E)
Four-engine bombers
Bloch 165
Bloch 162 (SO 162)
Bloch 163
PROTOTYPES WITHOUT A FUTURE
Twin-engine utility aircraft
Bloch 600
Bloch 800
Bloch 810
Bloch 800P (SO 80 / SO 800)
Bloch 820 (SO 820)
SO 830
SO 180
Small wooden fighter
Bloch 700
Bloch 720
And little-known projects
Bloch 1010
Bloch 1011
Bloch 1040
Bloch 1050
Other 1000s? SO C1
Bloch Engines and Propellers
COLLAPSE AND RESTRUCTURING
Movements of the Design Offices
Erasure of the Bloch Name
Last Bloch Aircraft
Bloch 1020 (BA 1020)
Bloch 360
Bloch 361
Bloch 500 Touring Aircraft
The “Flamant” Line
Bloch 30
Bloch 301 to 317
Dassault 303, 311, 315
Dassault or SNCASO?
Summary
APPENDICES
Appendix 1 - Roussel Aircraft
Roussel 10
Roussel 20
Roussel 30
Roussel 40 “Scanton”
Some Other Projects
Appendix 2 - Contracts
Orders for Marcel Bloch Aircraft
Prototypes Initiated with Private Funds
Unknown Funding Method
Appendix 3 - Chronology
Appendix 4 - Production of Bloch Fighters
Appendix 5 - Summary of Marcel Bloch Aircraft
Appendix 6 - Reconstruction
of the Bloch 152 by Dassault
Additions and Corrections