FS2004/FSX Caudron C561 Racer.
The extremely refined C.561 was the end of a famous and successful line of racers designed by Marcel Riffard and his colleagues at Avions Caudron in the 1930's. Lamentably, although it was the best looking of the series, it was also the least successful. It failed to qualify for the 1939 Coupe Deutsch de la Meurthe; the 2,000 km race around a long triangular course established in 1933 by Mme. Suzanne Deutsch de la Meurthe for airplanes with engines displacing not more than 8 litres. The plane was not entered for the 1937 race due to slow development of the engine; a displacement reduction to 6.5 litres for 1938 rendered it ineligible.
The wings, tailplane and undercarriage of the C.561 and its six cylinder sister-ship, the C.461 were identical with those of its predecessors, the C.450 and C.460. The fuselage, though, was a totally new design providing a flush hood for the cockpit doing away with the windscreen entirely. Consideration was given to attempting to raise the World Air Speed Record with the C.561 but this idea was abandoned along with development of the 8 litre engine.

Installation:
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-Unzip " Caudron C561" into a temporary file and move the "Caudron C561" folder into the main Aircraft directory.
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-Read instructions carefully when installing the gauges , say YES...when asked if the gauges sources should be trusted. If you say no....most of the gauges are not going to work !
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-Leave the PW-9.cab in your panel folder.
-If having trouble with the cockpit transparencies or turningprop in FSX acceleration or FSX demo, copy the glass.bmp and prop_B.bmp from the Acceleration.texture into the plane's texture folder.



FLYING
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This is a small, but hot and good flying, fast model. Rear cockpit view gives a tailchasing look, very nice for racing around the pylons.


CREDITS
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Special thanks to :
-GMAX for the drawing program and Microsoft for their makmdls.mdk and the Patty Wagstaff pilot figure.
-BARANGER Emmanuel whose Flightgear mdl and textures contributed to the creation of this GMAX model.

LEGAL:
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The project is released as freeware. You may modify it and repaint it. You may upload this file to another website as long as it is not for profit.
You need the written permission of the original authors to use any of these files for commercial purposes, otherwise a simple credit would be nice. Non commercial repaints-remakes are welcome but I would appreciate very much receiving a copy of your model.
This file should not cause any problems with your computer, but I accept no responsibility if you think it does. Remarks and hints are welcome and are being considered.


Happy Landings!

A.F.Scrub
October 2010
Email: af_scrubbypc@hotmail.com