An Unlikely Warbird on this special anniversary

[nuuumannn]

100 years ago today, the guns fell silent. As a result I decided to mark it by doing a walkaround of a Great War veteran. Caudron G.III 3066:

3066 02

3066 10

3066 24

3066 32

3066 36

A history of this special machine and a link to the walkaround:

http://warbirdswalkaround.wixsite.c...t/2018/11/11/An-Unlikely-Warbird-Caudron-GIII

 

[fubar57]

Very cool

 

[Wurger]

 

[Airframes]

Nice one Grant.
Lots of courage must have been needed, just to climb into (onto ?) that thing, let alone fly it !.

 

[Crimea_River]

Excellent Grant.

 

[GrauGeist]

 

[Tieleader]

Great shots.
That's nothing but a powered kite!

 

[nuuumannn]

Many years ago I had to help move the aeroplane about in the hangar it sits in and moving it was hard; those twin wheels are held to the airframe by nothing except the bungee cord and the vee brace attached to an upright on the skid, which moves freely and is not fixed. This means that the wheel bogies move about all over the place, and somewhat surprisingly, the aft braces holding the tail section are really heavy. Pushing it forward caused the wheels to go in different directions and because of the springy nature of the bungee, the thing kept bottoming out on the skids! It would have been impossible to taxi, let alone fly. Originally, the pre-war Caudrons had 45 hp engines; the thing would have taken ages to get airborne from a patch of grass.

 

[parsifal]

what an interesting piece of kit. thanks for sharing

 

[Gnomey]

Excellent shots Grant!