-
Please see the most recent updates in the "Where did the .com name go?" thread. Posts number 16 and 17.
The Ongoing Mystery Aircraft Thread Part Deux.
- Thread starter Ferry_vO
- Start date
and over to you. 
lefty
SOH-CM-2023
If I were ever able to get into AviaFrance again.....
.........but today I was away to the movies - the remake of 'Whisky Galore' - one of the great Scottish tales.......
Gx - where did you find the C.99 ?????
And what do you call this new one ? A semi-bi-sesqui-triplane ???
.........but today I was away to the movies - the remake of 'Whisky Galore' - one of the great Scottish tales.......Gx - where did you find the C.99 ?????
And what do you call this new one ? A semi-bi-sesqui-triplane ???
Hello Giru!couldn't it then be the #99 in the Caudron series? i.e. the Caudron C.99
would you mind telling me (us) where I could find some information About the Caudron C99? AFAIK no information over the net or Aviafrance.
Thanks
Cheers!
BG (Carlo)
pomme homme
Members +
........but today I was away to the movies - the remake of 'Whisky Galore' - one of the great Scottish tales.......
Sacrilege! Why must they try to gild the lily? Compton MacKenzie must be turning in his grave (I hope that he wasn't cremated). It demonstrates the intellectual poverty of the film industry that they have to 'remake', rather than re-release, such films. What next? A 'remake' of Kind Hearts & Coronets ? Will they never learn? Usually they spend a fortune on these 'remakes', only to see them 'bomb'.
Sorry, gentlemen. Rant over. Back to the aeroplanes ......
Edit: Compton MacKenzie was buried on Barra - so I suspect that he's spinning!
pomme homme
Members +
It appears that there's a good deal on the C.99 online - in Flight, Les Ailes and l'Aerophile. The latter has a photograph of it (q,v. http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6554816n/f412).
fabulousfour
Members +
Two more from l'aerophile about the Caudron, the first is probably Kevin's source
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6567596v/f88.item
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k65540780/f27.item.r=caudron
Nice picture, Uli
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6567596v/f88.item
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k65540780/f27.item.r=caudron
Nice picture, Uli
cthornburg
Members +
Caudron C.99
Caudron C.99
The Caudron C.99 was a two-bay biplane designed as an A2 (army co-operation/light bombing ) type. Janes 1925 reported that it had unequal span wings with the top wing being longer than the lower wing. Construction was entirely of wood. The engine mounts were made up of steel rods which supported two wooded cross braces. The metal mounting bars attached to the fuselage spars. This arrange- ment permitted a variety of motors to be fitted. Contemporary French litera- ture shows a 300-hp Fiat A-12 engine being placed, but Janes 1925 reports that the C.99 displayed at the Salon had a 450-hp Hispano-Suiza engine. The Fiat was allegedly chosen because a Balkan state reportedly had a number of these engines in storage and needed an airframe to utilise them. A Chausson radiator was placed in the nose of the aircraft, beneath the engine. Defensive armament consisted of a synchronised Vickers machine gun fitted in the nose and fired by the pilot, a ventral Vickers machine gun firing through a tunnel in the bootom of the fuselage, and two Vickers machine guns on a ring mount first by the observer. There was a TSF unit and a cam- era for vertical or oblique photography. Offensive armament consisted of up to 120 kg of bombs (usually twelve 10 kg bombs) fitted to racks underneath the wings.The eventual fate of the C.99 is not known, but given the fact that no military orders were forthcoming (despite the clever engine option), it is likely that only the single machine was built.
Caudron C.99 two-seat army cooperation aircraft with a 450-hp His- pano- Suiza engine [/B]Wing span 14.00 m; length 9.70 m ; height 3.25 m; wing area 48.00 sq m (Janes states 44 sq m) Empty weight 1,175 kg; loaded weight 1,175 kg; Maximum speed 200 km/h (Janes states 225 km/hr); ceiling 7,500 m; en- durance 3 hours and 30 minutes
Caudron C.99
The Caudron C.99 was a two-bay biplane designed as an A2 (army co-operation/light bombing ) type. Janes 1925 reported that it had unequal span wings with the top wing being longer than the lower wing. Construction was entirely of wood. The engine mounts were made up of steel rods which supported two wooded cross braces. The metal mounting bars attached to the fuselage spars. This arrange- ment permitted a variety of motors to be fitted. Contemporary French litera- ture shows a 300-hp Fiat A-12 engine being placed, but Janes 1925 reports that the C.99 displayed at the Salon had a 450-hp Hispano-Suiza engine. The Fiat was allegedly chosen because a Balkan state reportedly had a number of these engines in storage and needed an airframe to utilise them. A Chausson radiator was placed in the nose of the aircraft, beneath the engine. Defensive armament consisted of a synchronised Vickers machine gun fitted in the nose and fired by the pilot, a ventral Vickers machine gun firing through a tunnel in the bootom of the fuselage, and two Vickers machine guns on a ring mount first by the observer. There was a TSF unit and a cam- era for vertical or oblique photography. Offensive armament consisted of up to 120 kg of bombs (usually twelve 10 kg bombs) fitted to racks underneath the wings.The eventual fate of the C.99 is not known, but given the fact that no military orders were forthcoming (despite the clever engine option), it is likely that only the single machine was built.
Caudron C.99 two-seat army cooperation aircraft with a 450-hp His- pano- Suiza engine [/B]Wing span 14.00 m; length 9.70 m ; height 3.25 m; wing area 48.00 sq m (Janes states 44 sq m) Empty weight 1,175 kg; loaded weight 1,175 kg; Maximum speed 200 km/h (Janes states 225 km/hr); ceiling 7,500 m; en- durance 3 hours and 30 minutes
Not 100% certain but it looks like the source.
Looks to be the Martin TT from 1913 or so. (Methinks there is a private joke in there somewhere between Robert and Uli gX).
http://www.airminded.net/MartinTT/MartinTT.html
fabulousfour
Members +
Kevin, to satisfy your curiosity 
I know Uli/giruXX for some years now from another Forum. And Uli is to blame that I am now a participant of the Mistery Aircraft Thread
I know Uli/giruXX for some years now from another Forum. And Uli is to blame that I am now a participant of the Mistery Aircraft Thread