Grumman G-36A, hypothetical French Naval Air Service scheme, aircraft carrier "Bearn", July 1940.
France ordered 81 G-36A aircraft, powered by Wright R-1820 Cyclone 9 engines and equipped with 6 French 7.5mm Darne machine-guns, the latter to be fitted on arrival in France. By the time of the Armistice, only one aircraft had been completed ready for delivery, coded NXG1. Others would have been available very shortly afterwards, so in keeping with the "what-if" approach of the "Attack in the West '40" campaign, it is interesting to imagine these aircraft entering service if the Battle of France had lasted that bit longer. This paint scheme is not the delivery scheme - a single overall shade of light grey with no fuselage roundels, but with tricolour striped elevators - but a hypothetical service scheme which takes into account the aircraft camouflage and markings used at the time of the Armistice.
This will of course not change the flight dynamics or damage profile of the aircraft into that of a G-36A.
France ordered 81 G-36A aircraft, powered by Wright R-1820 Cyclone 9 engines and equipped with 6 French 7.5mm Darne machine-guns, the latter to be fitted on arrival in France. By the time of the Armistice, only one aircraft had been completed ready for delivery, coded NXG1. Others would have been available very shortly afterwards, so in keeping with the "what-if" approach of the "Attack in the West '40" campaign, it is interesting to imagine these aircraft entering service if the Battle of France had lasted that bit longer. This paint scheme is not the delivery scheme - a single overall shade of light grey with no fuselage roundels, but with tricolour striped elevators - but a hypothetical service scheme which takes into account the aircraft camouflage and markings used at the time of the Armistice.
This will of course not change the flight dynamics or damage profile of the aircraft into that of a G-36A.
