CSA aircraft

[TexanCowboy]

Then small lakes? I repeat, "Political Connections"

[Guinness]

Small lakes are even less likely to have enough ice thickness and area to allow takeoffs, frankly. You still need considerable clear area to allow a take off run, and it needs to be available in the direction the wind is blowing at the time.

[Sachmle]

"Political Connections"

Are excuse enough to waste $$ on useless aircraft. It's not like it didn't happen OTL.

[TexanCowboy]

True...the Kennedy Giant. And its $.05. Even for Romania, that just isn't a big deal.

[Carthaginian]

The CSA is, as always, working on some strange and interesting aircraft in La Paz.
A few people see something very different form any previous aeroplane taking off occasionally from the runways near the beach. The number of takeoffs currently greatly exceeds the number of landings... but they are slowly working on reducing the differences between the two.

:)

[Guinness]

Autogyro! My favorite.

[Logi]

I want, would be useful if it could haul things for a good distance, saves from the need for an airfield really.

[Carthaginian]

LOL... well, this one will be about 4-5 years in development- at least, if aircraft development continues at the current rate. A Soviet design co-opted to my purposes (like so many of the CSA's planned aircraft).

[ctwaterman]

The Problem with the Auto Gyro even the good ones is by World War II they could carry 2 People and 1 200 Lb Depth Charge into the Air.  They were most often used as a Light Artillary spotting aircraft by the Japanese.

They lack both range, payload, and endurance...... ;)

But they can operate from large clearing in the Jungle.

Charles

[Logi]

But the advantage is that they can land in any open clearing. Conventional aircrafts need a long even clearing to land.

[ctwaterman]

Yes as long as all they are carrying is a pilot and observer and a radio they work well as a spotting aircraft if you want to use them for anything else they cant take off vertically with a combat load. 

Charles

[Desertfox]

Too much foresight, they are excellent ASW weapons and don't require carrier tech.

[Logi]

I just wanted cargo haulers that didn't need an airstrip to operate. ;)

[Carthaginian]

Too much foresight, they are excellent ASW weapons and don't require carrier tech.

Too much foresight my hind end.
The CSA was the first nation to try and put aircraft aboard a ship.
This is just an alternate way of accomplishing their goal which does not involve catapults. And as the CSA is researching aerial spotting (part of the next fire control) and these would make great AERIAL SPOTTERS...

Well, damn your torpedoes.
If anything, the CSA has little need for ASW- and has done very little to research it.

[maddox]

I just wanted cargo haulers that didn't need an airstrip to operate. ;)

A blimp just needs a field and trainload with resupplies as long the weather holds up. trainwagons of low pressure hydrogen to fill the envelope....