History
In an attempt to provide protection to their long range bombing and
reconnaisance machines, the French Air Service came up with a series of
twin-engined aircraft that were supposed to be able to fight off enemy
fighters with strong machine gun armament. Towards that end, Caudron developed
the three-seat G.5, which evolved into the two-seater G.6. Unfortunately
the idea of long range 'battleplanes' was a better idea than reality and
they never really lived up to the ideals of their creators.
According to David Layton (who has done considerable study on the G.6,
and sent me the result of his research of it many years back), my depiction
of this Escadrille C.11 aircraft for a recent issue of OTF is actually
a G.5
An aircraft of Escadrille C.56, the nacelle colours are speculative.
This G.6 of C.575 is seen in 1919 while serving overseas at Port Said.
This G.6 presumably served with an unknown French Naval Air Service
unit.
Reference:
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David Layton research
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Over The Front 19/4
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French Aircraft of the First World War: Davilla & Soltan. Flying
Machines Press
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