French naval air defence

[maddox]

From  HY 1 1907 France will have 4 25000m³ semi rigid airships patroling the skies.

The L'Aigle is nearing her usefull life, and will be replaced by her successor L'Aigle, a 32 000m³ rigid airship.

[Borys]

The L'Aigle is nearing her usefull life, and will be replaced by her successor L'Aigle, a 32 000m³ rigid airship.

Le Roi c'est mort! Vive le Roi!

[maddox]

HY 01 1915 France is operating 18 type 2 rigid airships. 
12 of these are specificly tasked with recon missions, and the other 6 are leased to the gouvernement for passenger service and airmail, competing with the trains.

2 of an improved type are being build for more specific applications. These will be operated by the navy.

Lacking real aircraft capacity, mainly because the great inventor and adventurer Santos Dumont died in the unfortunate Usine Des Diregibles (1903), france avoided heavier than air craft.

But the pressure of modern age has brought forward the need for aircraft.

One of the aircraft that is promising is the machine build by Jean Guillaume Dune . 



The single engined version proposed for battlefield recon and hunting other aircraft.  Tests are being conducted to see if l'armee de france can use these aircraft.

[maddox]

With support from certain groups in the French and Italian governments , the aircraft factory of Jean Guillaume Dune has been working on the largest, heaviest, most crew friendly airplane in the world.
The Dune 11 will herald a new age.

5 Hispano-Suiza 8B of 200 Hp each will propel this air giant.
A wingspan of exact 40 meters and a capacity to carry an additional 2100 lbs (950 kg) over distances of 1200 miles makes this aircraft the ideal passenger plane and addition to the Murmoretz aircraft in use at Marseilles.

[TexanCowboy]

Would this be the plane we were talking about when I still controlled the CSA? The notorious __________ bomber?

[Walter]

The notorious Camembert bomber? Dropping cheese on the enemy? :)

[P3D]

The notorious Camembert bomber? Dropping cheese on the enemy? :)

Following the established French tradition of Chemical Warfare...

[Walter]

They have the proper tech level for it. :)