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DECEMBER 18, 1924 5K Si Si Si Si Si Si Si % Si Si Si :•: This. photograph does not show the grand stair case, but illus trates the large cabin exhibited on the Caudron stand. This machine has flown from Paris to Moscow. Si Si iSj iSi Si Si (31 ft. 2J in.) ; height, 3-34 m. (10 ft. 11 in.) ; span, upper plane, 14-32 m. (48 ft. 7 in.); span, lower plane, 11m. (36 ft. 1 in.).; wing area, 50 sq. m. (538 sq. ft.). The machine can be supplied fitted with either of the following engines: 480 h.p. Renault, 450 h.p. Lorraine-Dietrich, or 400 h.p. Lorraine- Dietrich. With the 480 h.p. Renault the weight empty is 1,270 kgs. (2,795 lbs.) ; with the 400 h.p. Lorraine 1,212 kgs. (2,670 lbs.) : with the 450 h.p. Lorraine 1,189 kgs. (2,618 lbs.). Following are the performance figures for the machine fitted with the 400 h.p. Lorraine engine, and carrying a useful load of 810 kgs. (1,780 lbs.) : these figures have been officially passed bv the Section Technique : Maximum speed at 2,000 metres : 210-5 km./h. (131| m.p.h.); speed at 5,0Q0' m. 194 km./h. (121J m.p.h.). Ceiling 6,700 m. (22,000 ft.). Climb to 1,000 m. in 3 mins. 30 sees.; 2,000 m. in 7 mins. 28 sees.; 3,000 m. in 12 mins. 41 sees.; 4,000 m. in 19 mins. 27 sees.; 5,000 m. in 29imins. 53 sees.; and 6,000 m. in 50 mins. 56 sees. • When fitted with the 480 h.p. Renault, and carrying 1,040 kgs. (2,290 lbs.) useful load, the performance is as follows: (Speed at 2,000 m. 222-5 km./h. (139 m.p.h.); at 5,000 m. 204 km./h. (127-5 m.p.h.). The times to 1,000, 2,000, 3,000, 4,000, 5,000 and 6,000 metres are as follows :— 4 mins.#0'07 sec, 8 mins. 14 sees., 12 mins, 59 sees., 19 mins. 35 sees., 29 mins. 19 sees., and 47 mins. 49 sees. Ceiling, 7,000 Jm. (23,000 ft.). Carrying the same useful load, but fitted with 450 h.p. Lorraine, the speed is 210-5 km./h. (131 ^ m.p.h.) at 2,000 m. and 194 km./h. (121 m.p.h.) at 5,000 m., and the climbs to the altitudes previously mentioned occupy : 3 mins. 30 sees., 8 mins. 11 sees., 13 mins. 36 sees., 21 mins. 12 sees., 34 mins. 14 sees., and 56 mins. 24 sees. The ceiling is 6,500 m. (21,300 ft.). THE CAUDRON MACHINES. FROM every point of view the Caudron exhibit at this year's Paris Aero Show is regarded by many as being disappointing. The machines shown are in most case.s old types, or at any rate so similar to the older types as to be indistinguishable from them, although in some instances new series numbers appear to have been given. Two of the four or five complete machines shown are two-seater school 'buses with different engines, but apart from a notable and welcome improvement in the form of streamline wires in place of piano wire in the wing bracing, they are the same that have appeared year after year at the Grand Palais. To say that the stand is disappointing is in no way a criticism of Caudron designing skill, but is merely meant to indicate that the firm has pre ferred to exhibit old and well-tried types rather than do as one or two other firms have done, and as too many French firms were in the habit of doing some years ago, showing experiments of doubtful value. The sheer simplicity of the Caudron methods of construction renders their machines peculiarly suitable for school work, and we understand that as a matter of fact the Caudron factory has been one of the most successful in selling machines. But to the visitor who goes to the Paris Aero Show expecting to see new machines, the Caudrons are disappointing inasmuch as they are mostly well and—let it be freely admitted—favourably known. The Caudron exhibits include a two-seater fighter of very straightforward, but rather clean lines. It is known as the type C.99, and is fitted with 450 h.p. Hispano-Suiza engine. In general design the machine is a normal "two-bay braced biplane, the upper plane of which is of slightly larger dimen sions than the lower. The armament consists of a syn chronised gun for the pilot, two guns on a Scarff ring for the —mxtmnm^mZft -•'••IP'' • .--yT"" .„ ( L;/ .. , * ON THE DEWOITINE STAND : On the left is seen a D1C1, which had to land in a thick fog and turned over without sustaining other damage than a bent rudder and one or two punctures in the wing covering. In the background is the large commercial monoplane, while on the right is a single-seater fighter similar to the D1C1 except for the cabane, which is slightly different in construction. 786
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