The Bernard SIMB V.1 was a French single seat racing monoplane designed to compete for the 1924 Beaumont Cup.
The fin was almost triangular, with a slightly convex leading edge; it carried a pointed rudder on a vertical hinge extending to the bottom of the fuselage.
The pilot sat low down in a small open cockpit with narrow streamlined dorsal fairings in front and behind.
His view forward was severely restricted by the central inline bank of four cylinders of the W-12 Lorraine-Dietrich 12E water-cooled piston engine.
These backward leaning legs were wide chord, faired cantilevers with large, unfaired wheels mounted on individual stub axles.