Category:Caudron Trimoteur
The Caudron Trimoteur were several French three-engine civil transport biplane aircraft of the 1920s.
The very first was the C.25 part of the 1919 Paris Aero Show. Little is known about it and it seems not being ordered or comemrcially used. Despite, the formula is there : a trimotor biplane with a fixed tailskid undercarriage fitted by pairs of main wheels mounted on single axles under the engine (those outboard are halfway between the wings) and a fifth wheel mounted under the nose to prevent nose-overs. The passengers are inside a close cabin with an open cockpit.
The C.37 (and the floatplane C.39) were no more a success but have the definitive classic tail (the C.25 had a double horizontal stabilizer). The three radial engines have their cowling.
The C.61 was in 1921 the first one to reach the serie following an order of six by Compagnie Franco-Roumaine de Navigation Aérienne (CFRNA); six others were later bought by airlines. The powerplant were three inline Hispano-Suiza V-8 engines.
Three years later, the C.61 bis was an improved variant : instead the outboard V-8, the airframe were fitted with Salmson 9 cylinders radial engines. One new airframes was manufactured and half of the C.61 were upgraded.
On the C.81's nose a V-12 inline engine was and five were ordered by CFRNA in 1923.
Another blueprint (the C.183) left the drawing board but had no future once the test ended.
This page lists all films that feature a variation of the Caudron Trimoteur.
See also
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