Caudron C.99
| Caudron C.99 | |
|---|---|
| Role | Reconnaissance aircraft |
| National origin | France |
| Manufacturer | Caudron |
| Designer | Brunet |
| First flight | c.1924 |
| Number built | 1 |
The Caudron C.99 was a French light bomber and reconnaissance aircraft. The only example flew with different engines in the mid-1920s.
Design and development
Though in 1924 Flight described the C.99, which was on display at the 18th Paris Salon,
The C.99 had a steel frame engine mounting in the nose, designed to accept a variety of engines. At the 1924 Salon it had a 450 hp (336 kW)
elevators, attached to a tailplane mounted on top of the fuselage, required a central cut-out for movement. The C.99 had a fixed undercarriage with its mainwheels on a single axle mounted on V-struts from each side of the fuselage.[3]
As a bomber, the C.99 could carry twelve 10 kg (22 lb) bombs.[2] At the Salon it was fitted with four machine guns, one fixed and forward-firing for the pilot and two on a Scarff ring for the observer in the rear cockpit, who also had the fourth, rearward firing, gun in his floor.[1]
Specifications (Hispano engine)
Data from Hauet (2001), p.187
General characteristics
- Crew: Two
- Length: 9.70 m (31 ft 10 in)
- Upper wingspan: 14.00 m (45 ft 11 in)
- Lower wingspan: 12.73 m (41 ft 9 in)
- Height: 3.25 m (10 ft 8 in)
- Wing area: 48.0 m2 (517 sq ft)
- Empty weight: 1,185 kg (2,612 lb) with coolant
- Gross weight: 1,830 kg (4,034 lb) [1]
- Fuel capacity: 255 kg (562 lb)
- Powerplant: 1 × V-12 engine, 340 kW (450 hp)
- Propellers: 2-bladed
Performance
- Maximum speed: 200 km/h (120 mph, 110 kn)
- Endurance: 3.50 hr
References
- ^ a b c d "1924 Paris Salon - The Caudron Machines". Flight. Vol. XVI, no. 51. 18 December 1924. pp. 787–2.
- ^ a b "La IXe Exposition de l'Aviation - Caudron". Les Ailes (182). 11 December 1924.
- ^ ISBN 2 914017-08-1.
- ^ "L'Aérophile - Salon 1924". L'Aérophile. Vol. 32, no. 24. 1–15 December 1924. p. 14.