Airplanes

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The Reformist Republic of China's 'first' production aircraft for the military, the Dragonfly is the child of years of experiments and pratical use of the  Demoisselle aircraft. After several preminary tests have been under taken, 800 have been ordered and manufactured by the newly founded Aeronatical Department. So far, activities of these airplanes consist of routine training flights as well as scouting and patroling the borders.

Listed as 1910 aircraft

Crew: one, pilot
Length: 22 ft
Wingspan: 21 ft
Height: 8 ft
Gross weight: 420 lb
Empty Weight: 80 lb
Engine: 75hp engine
Maximum speed: 120 km/hr
Range: 2hrs - 100-120 miles (full load; no spare fuel)
Payload: Nothing

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The Reformist Republic of China's first fighter. Affectionately dubbed Spitfire by its many pilots, the Spitfire sports one machinegun, fixed to the front of the airplane. The gunner, seated above and behind the pilot, fires the gun when he pleases.

Crew: two, pilot - gunner
Length: 26 ft
Wingspan: 25 ft
Height: 8 ft
Gross weight: 840 lb
Empty Weight: 460 lb
Engine: 75hp engine
Maximum speed: 100 km/hr
Range: 1.5 hours - 100 miles (full load; no spare fuel)
Ceiling: 10,000 ft
Armament: 1 x forward-firing 10 mm Machinegun
Payload: Nothing

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The Reformist Republic of China's first bomber. The Razer was made to be able to carry a large payload of bombs and drop them on a specific coordinate.

Crew: two, 1 pilots - 1 sighters
Length: 72 ft
Wingspan: 60 ft
Height: 14 ft
Gross weight: 3620 lb
Empty Weight: 1060 lb
Engine: 2 x 75hp engine
Maximum speed: 90 km/hr
Range: 380 miles (full load; no spare fuel)
Endurance: 4 hours (max speed)
Ceiling: 14,000 ft
Armament: None
Payload: up to 800lb bombs (usually carpet bombs)

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The Reformist Republic of China's first floatplane. The Flying Fish is made to be able to be retrieved from the ocean after flight.

Crew: two, pilot - spotter
Length: 24 ft
Wingspan: 22 ft
Height: 9 ft
Gross weight: 520 lb
Empty Weight: 160 lb
Engine: 2 x 75hp engine
Maximum speed: 140 km/hr
Range: 210 miles (full load; no spare fuel)
Endurance: 1.5 hours (max speed)
Ceiling: 11,000 ft
Armament: None
Payload: Nothing

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The second bomber of the Reformist Republic of China, features the able to carry more and a further range prompted by the Burmese conflict. The improvement in aircraft engine technologies has allowed for this design. The original design called for a smaller plane but due to beliefs in the unluckiness of the number 4, the plane was enlarged from 44 (die die) to 54 (don't die). The design also helps  Huang Chen-tsuo in his argument that aircraft do make a difference. Also the debut airplane of the company founded by Huang Chen-tsuo, NAMCo.

Name: NAMCo NA-01
Contractor: NAMCo (National Aviation Manufacturing Company)
Type: Long-Distance Heavy Bomber (Bi)
Crew: 3 - Pilot, Gunner, bombardier
Length: 54 ft
Wingspan: 88 ft
Height: 13 ft
Empty Weight: ~7,300 Pounds
MTOW: ~11,000 Pounds
Engine: 5 x 150 HP Engine (two on each wing, one in fuselage)
Maximum speed: 85 mph
Range: 700 Mi
Endurance: 8 Hours
Ceiling: ~9,000 feet
Armament: 1 x Forward-Firing 10mm MG (MG stand in cockpit peering out)
Payload: Up to 2,000 Pounds of external ordinance - usually 250lb bombs or 100 pounds bombs.

OOC: Based on Friedrichshafen G.III, Handley Page H.P. O/400, Martin MB-1, Caproni Ca.36, and the Baltic Confederation's Bomber #1 of 1912. Has lower capabilities, increased weight, lower ceiling height, lighter payload, and more engines to make up for difference in years. Wide wingspan allows more "gliding", more time in air with less engine use.

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LuiDai Aerospace Design Bureau (LAD) won the bid for the designing and construction of a new fighter plane for the Reformist Republic of China. The airplane features new a 150 HP engine from the Dading Engine Factory.

Name: Lui Ye. II
Contractor: LAD (LuiDai Aerospace Design Bureau)
Type: Fighter (Bi)
Crew: 2 - Pilot, Aft Gunner
Length: 23 feet
Wingspan: 39 feet
Height: 10 feet
Empty Weight: ~1,500 Lbs
MTOW: ~2,200 LBs
Engine: 1 x Dading 150HP Engine
Maximum speed: 100 mph
Range: 230 miles
Ceiling: 12,000 feet
Armament: 1 x Forward-firing 10 mm MG, 1x semi-Rotating (180 degrees movement) 10mm MG aft of gunner seat.
Payload: 50 lbs worth in external ordinance.

OOC: Based on AEG C. IV with reduced capabilities (less range, lower ceiling, less payload)

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The Reformist Republic of China, realizing that the airplane, with its arsenal of light machineguns might prove a deadly and valuable asset on the battlefield called for the designing of a close-air-support airplane (CAS) as a experimental airplane. To determine the practicability of such a craft. The requires was to have a heavy armament, long range, and good protection for the craft. Tien-Day Aviation Corporation, with its roots strongly planted in the army and aeronautic departments of the nation, won the government contract. The design they came up with was a biplane with swept back wings and reinforced structure would mount two "large" MGs. The plane would have a small profile to make it harder to shoot at and have a fast speed and rate of climb. That said, the design would require skilled pilots to operate. If the plane enters too steep a dive, it will tear apart.

The wings are  covered in a thin sheet metal to prevent (supposedly), infantry fire from tearing the wings apart. The airplane uses a Dading 120HP engine with is less powerful but more efficient than the larger 150HP Dading. Though a heavier MG could be mounted, the designers decided that range would be more important for its mission. Army operations were by no means short-ranged.

Name: TACO  Ca. I
Contractor: TACO (Tien-Day Aviation Corporation)
Type: Close-Air Support Concept Model (Bi)
Crew: 1 - Pilot
Length: 43 feet
Wingspan: 36 feet
Height: 9 feet
Empty Weight: ~3,600 lbs
MTOW: ~5,200 lbs
Engine: 1 x Dading 120HP Engine
Maximum speed: 73 mph
Range: 800 miles
Ceiling: 6,200 feet
Armament: 2 x 15mm Forward-Firing "Heavy" MG (3 and 9 o' clock)
Payload: None

Based On: RRC Spitfire, Aerowerke Gustav Otto AGO C.II, Coanda 1910 (shape), Fokker E.III, and AEG C.IV. Walter hates the way I base planes :D

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The Flying Fish Y.II is the first true reconnaissance plane of the Republic, the Flying Fish Y.II is an complete redesign of the first Flying Fish, incorporating new technologies into the plane and a more powerful engine. The plane uses twin booms with a pusher-propeller to allow better view in the front and back of the plane. The Flying Fish Y.II, like its predecessor, is also a floatplane. However, the newer Dading engine is more fuel-hungry than ever, resulting in a short range due to the need to keep the aircraft weight down.

Produced in two versions; A and B, B has one more seat for a spotter and a mounted binocular at the second seat.

The picture is skewered a bit lengthwise.

Name: Flying Fish Y.II
Crew: one, pilot
Length: 23 ft
Wingspan: 30 ft
Height: 8 ft
Empty Weight: ~1,600 lb
MTOW: ~2,200 lb
Engine: 1 x Dading 200HP engine
Maximum speed: 136 mph
Range: 340 miles
Endurance: 1.5 hours
Ceiling: 12,000 ft
Armament: None
Payload: Nothing

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The Shui-Shang-Pew (Skimming Water) is a torpedo bombers, the first of its kind in the Republic. The planes are produced as land-based anti-ship defenses. As the planes have roughly a radius of action of 150mi, the planes can attack ships off the coast of the Republic where the coastal batteries cannot. However, the engine is hard to produce, resulting from its unusually high horsepower, and so the Republic can only produce limited numbers of it per year.

Name: Shui-Shang-Pew
Crew: two; pilot, spotter
Length: 30 ft
Wingspan: 50 ft
Height: 11 ft
Empty Weight: 2,400 lb
MTOW: 4,000 lb
Engine: 1 x Dading Inline Water-Cooled 300HP engine
Maximum speed: 115 mph
Range: 345 miles
Ceiling: 10,000 ft
Armament: 1 x 10mm HMG forward-firing
Payload: 1 x 18" Airborne Torpedo

18" Airborne Torpedo: Wet-Heater 500lb Warhead / 1500lb;; 1,500yds @ 40kts

OOC: Based on: Sopwith Cuckoo, Sopwith Pup, SPAD S.VII

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Due to the Republic budging airforce, the need to have trainer planes has quickly become very apparent. Whilst currently obsolete airplanes are used for the role, it has been recognized the need for purpose-build trainers. However, due to the vast numbers needed for such a purpose, the airforce has opted to significantly reduce the abilities of the trainer planes (read 1914 tech).

Name: Lui Er. I
Contractor: LAD (LuiDai Aerospace Design Bureau)
Type: Trainer Plane (Bi)
Crew: 2 - Pilot, Instructor
Length: 25 feet
Wingspan: 40 feet
Height: 8 feet
Empty Weight: ~1,900 Lbs
MTOW: ~2,800 LBs
Engine: 1 x Dading Inline Water-Cooled 240HP Engine
Maximum speed: 140 mph
Range: 270 miles
Ceiling: 11,000 feet
Armament: 1 x 7.6mm Forward-Firing MG
Payload: None

OOC: Based on: Hansa-Brandenburg B.I, Bristol Scout, Albatros B.II

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The successor to the Tien-Day Aviation Corporation's highly successful plane, the experimental Taco CA. I, the Taco CA. II expounded on the shown strengths of the plane whilst eliminating or reducing it's weaknesses.

Metal Reinforcements in the plane structure, nothing else (IE: Doped Fabric on light metal on the leading edge of the wings and metal supports in the fuselage around places like the gun rack and the cockpit). Changes have been done to the hull structure to reduce redundancies and the fuel load has been reduced. The result is a much faster plane, though shorter-legged, and with more anti-infantry potential. Wing is shaped gull wing formation, changing point from -5 degrees to +10 degrees. An inline engine was etertained, but the sheer weight of such an engine would have detracted from the plane's structural strength, manuverubility, and weight so it was dropped in favor of a Dading 200HP Rotary.

The purpose of the plane is still to dive and attack troops on the ground. As usual, if the plane accelerates too fast on the dive or dives too steeply, the plane is unrecoverable.

Name: TACO  Ca. II
Contractor: TACO (Tien-Day Aviation Corporation)
Type: Close-Air Support (Mono)
Crew: 2 - Pilot, Gunner
Length: 43 feet
Wingspan: 45 feet
Height: 11 feet
Empty Weight: ~1,000 lbs
MTOW: ~2,000 lbs
Engine: 1 x Dading 200HP Engine Air-Cooled Rotary
Maximum speed: 140 mph
Range: 568 miles
Ceiling: 6,000 meters (19,685 feet)
Armament: 2 x twin 7.62mm Forward-Firing MG (3 and 9 o' clock) - 500 round per barrel
Payload: None

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There is a dire need for modern fighter planes within the Republic, especially heavy fighters designed to deal with pesky threats such as airships, as the stunt pulled by a mysterious nation, though most likely to be Swiss, showed to the nation. The Result is Lui Er. II.

The design utilizes two of the high power engines from Dading Engine Factory to carry a total of four machineguns and one autocannon. The autocannon is armed with phosphorous rounds to deal with antiships (to cause the gas within to ingite). However, the result of the heavy armament is a climb rate and ceiling less than desirable. However, the large chassis has given room and enough weight for the plane to carry a large amount of fuel, which gives the plane great range.

Name: Lui Er. II
Contractor: LAD (LuiDai Aerospace Design Bureau)
Type: Heavy Fighter (Biplane now)
Crew: 3 - Pilot, MG Gunner, 20mm Gunner
Length: 38 ft
Winspan: 52 ft
Height: 18 ft

Empty Weight: 5,000 lb
Loaded Weight: 7,000 lb
Max Takeoff Weight: 10,000 lb

Powerplant: 2 x Dading 300hp Inline Engine

Maxium Speed: 128 mph
Range: 654 miles (327 miles combat radius)
Rate of Climb: ~736 ft/min
Ceiling: 4000m

Armament: 2 x twin 0.5" (12.7mm) Fixed Forward-Firing MG with 200 rounds each
1 x 20mm Becker (Automatic) Fixed Forward-Firing with 50 Incendiary Rounds - Phosphorous
Payload: None

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The single engine counterpart to the Lui Er. II, the Lui Er. III is sprints and climbs fasterat the cost of lower range and a smaller armament. However, the plane performs quite well and is considered quite a good replacement for Lui Ye. II.

The design boasts a top speed of 138mph and a 212mi combat radius coupled by a climb rate of 1,362 ft/min and a ceiling of 6400m. Armament was decreased to only one twin 0.5" MG. It is a great improvement over Lui Ye. II which was 38mph slower and 97mi shorter combat radius.

Name: Lui Er. III
Contractor: LAD (LuiDai Aerospace Design Bureau)
Type: Fighter (Bi)
Crew: 1 - Pilot
Length: 20 ft
Winspan: 27 ft
Height: 7  ft

Empty Weight: 1,300 lb
Loaded Weight: 2,000 lb
Max Takeoff Weight: 2,200 lb

Powerplant: 1 x Dading 300hp Inline Engine

Maxium Speed: 138 mph
Range: 425 miles (212 miles combat radius)
Rate of Climb: 1,362 ft/min
Ceiling: 6400m

Armament: Twin 0.5" (12.7mm) Fixed Forward-Firing MG (Fuselage mounted behind propeller) with 200 rounds each
Payload: None