Hello All!
Here is a new project taking shape, the Caudron R.11.
It was a rather interesting French twin-engined biplane bomber/heavy fighter that came out late in 1917, designed 3 years earlier to substitute the Caudron G.4.
It was designed in 1914 as as a night bomber, and when it came out it initially saw service as such, but its 265 lb bombload soon proved too modest for the time, although its performance was remarkable (120 mph at S.L. and 821 fpm initial RoC).
Nevertheless, the R.11 was switched to a bomber-escort role, and used extensively to protect Berguet 14 bomber formations, which it defended flying circles around them like a guard dog.
370 units were built. The R.11 was powered by two Hispano-Suiza 8Bda water-cooled V8 engines that delivered 220 Hp at 2100 RPM. It had 8.17 ft wooden 18.47 degree fixed-pitch props with a 0.75 reduction gear (1.34:1), running at 1556 RPM. Engine and propeller performance in the .air file comes quite close, which is rather pleasing.
This CFS2 model will have crew, machine-guns and underwing bombs included in the Dp file, and is coming along quite nicely. For the time being, the AF99 model is basically finished, but considerable work still needs to be done.
Martin Klein has kindly offered to re-work the model with Gmax, adding a virtual cockpit and high-resolution extended textures, which sounds very promising indeed!
Here are a few screenshots!
Cheers,
Aleatorylamp
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