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Aviation History
1943
1943 - 2006.PDF
FLIGHT Sixty-first of the Latest Recognition Series Aircraft Types and CAUDRON GOELAND DESIGNED originally as a six-passenger airliner, theCaudron Gotland was in service in considerablenumbers in France as a transport and general com- munications type. After the capitulation many of these aircraft were taken over by the Germans and used by them in Occupied France. It is interesting to recall that in January, 1941, a Caudron Gotland arrived, unannounced and unexpected, on a Cornish airfield, and from it stepped a young French mechanic who had managed to make his get-away in the machine and had flown it over here from Occupied France. This gift of a free transport aircraft which had been snatched from right under the enemy's nose was a very welcome one, since we were by no means too well blessed with aircraft of any kind at that time, and the Gotland con- tinued to fly on communication duties in this country. The young French mechanic joined the R.A.F. A low-wing cantilever monoplane, the Caudron Gotland is of wooden construction, • the wings having two spruce and plywood spars and a stressed plywood skin, while the fuselage, also a wooden structure, has the nose and deck- ing covered with metal panels and the sides and bottom covered with fabric over light fairing. The fixed tail sur- faces are plywood covered, but the rudder and elevators are fabric covered. Power is provided by a pair of 220 hip. Renault " Ben- gali-Six " inverted in-line-, six-cylinder air-cooled engines fitted with Ratier v.p. airscrews, and the aircraft's top speed is 186 m.p.h. at sea level and 178 m.p.h. at 6,500ft. Its service ceiling is 16,570ft., and its range 350 miles at a cruising speed of 162 m.p.h. Its size and performance compare approximately with that of the de Havilland Dominie communications type in service with the R.A.F. The slim engine nacelles, which extend behind the straight trailing edge, can accommodate mail bags as well as the retractable undercarriage. STRAICHT TRAtLINr. EDCE Span Length Height Wing area DIMENSIONS .. 57ft. 8in. 45ft. 3in. lift. 6in. 43p sq.ft.- SLAB-SIDED FUSELACE DIHEDRAL FROM SMALL NACELLES
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