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Maurice Arnoux was a french aviator. A fighter pilot with 5 kills in the WW1 and killed in action in 1940, he did quite a bit of air racing in the 1930s and was one of Caudron’s pilots in the 1935 Coupe Deutsch de la Meurthe. That year Coupe Deutch was a 2,000 km long affair to be flown in two 1,000 km legs over a 100 km triangular circuit, with a one hour stop between the legs. Caudron had several aircraft in the competition. In fact, all other marquees/teams either didn’t make it in the qualifications or dropped out before actual competition due to technical problems. There were altogether five Caudrons at the staring line. Flight International Magazine reported the event very descriptively under the title ”A Family Affair”. Arnoux was to fly a Caudron C. 460, while Albert Monville took a Caudron C. 450 to the sky. Arnoux ran his engine hard and set new speed record (averaging 469 km/h) for 100 km closed circuit on the 7th lap but, as a consequence, exhausted his oil reserves and had to quit on the next lap. Meanwhile Monville’s race was foiled by trouble with the ignition at take off. He got in the air far behind the others. When Monville arrived at the half-way stop, he and Arnoux switched places; Arnoux flew Monville’s plane for the second leg of the race. In the end, Arnoux came in third while Raymond Delmotte, Caudrons chief pilot, won the race. He made highly consistent laps with little variation in speed or course. I wonder if the different strategies were agreed beforehand by the pilots or maybe even mandated by Caudron? After all, the Coupe ended up being an all-Caudron affair so they could’ve used it to test different strategies without being afraid of Caudron loosing the race. The two planes were essentially the same design. C. 450 had a fixed undercarriage and C. 460 a retractable undercarriage. Apart the differences related to undercarriage solution, the planes were similar. I’ll be building both Arnoux’s mounts in the race, a C. 460 and a C. 450 in 1/72 scale. I’ve sourced SBS Model’s resin kits for the build, and quite probably I’ll be doing the planes straight out-of-the-box. The kits have enough detail. Besides, my fatty fingers ain’t the tool for adding detail in this scale 😉. As a reference, I’ll be using what I’ve found on the net. Have to be careful though and read with critical eyes. Cheers, -M
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Though I'd dip my toes into a resin kit build, haven't done that in a very long time. I recently purchased a number of Caudron racers from Dujin and thought I'd start off by looking into the 714R. First of all... ...the box, looks innocent enough. Open the box, open the box! A PE fret, a vac canopy and some nicely printed decals...looking good. Aaahhhhh!!! I dare not look too closely at the moment but it looks like I've got my work cut here with lots of cleaning. And three pages of stuff that only a Google translator will be able to decipher. Am I put off, nah, just a flesh wound, modellers are made from this stuff. You can all have a laugh now. Stuart
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