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This will be a busy year not only for Mexican aircraft companies but also for the Australian ones.

First up is Commonwealth Aircraft Coorporation (CAC):

First plane is a joint project with BAM (Siam) for a long range ocean patrol and anti submarine aircraft. Expected service entry date is mid 1937.



CAC/BAM Pelican (based a bit on OTL Saro Lerwick)

General characteristics RTL.

* Crew: 7
* Length: 62 ft
* Wingspan: 79 ft
* Height: 20 ft
* Wing area: 820 ft²
* Loaded weight: 27,000 lb
* Max takeoff weight: 32,000 lb
* Powerplant: Pratt & Witney 1,200 hp R-1830 Twin Wasp

Performance

* Maximum speed: 210 mph @ 5,700 ft
* Range: miles 1500 miles
* Service ceiling 14,000 ft
* Rate of climb: 880 ft/min

Armament

* 6 × 0.303 in (7.7 mm) Browning guns (nose [2], dorsal [2] & tail [4])
* 2,000 lb (900 kg) of bombs or depth charges or torpedoes.



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Second up is a shore based torpedo bomber/strike plane.



CAC-14 Wombat (based on OTL Miles M.33 Monitor)

General characteristics

Crew: 2
Length: 47 ft
Wingspan: 55 ft
Height: 14 ft
Wing area: 500 ft²
Empty weight: 15,500 lb
Max takeoff weight: 21,000 lb
Powerplant: Pratt & Witney 1,200 hp R-1830 Twin Wasp

Performance

Maximum speed: 270 mph at 15,000 ft
Cruise speed: 210 mph at 15,000 ft
Range: 2000 nm
Service ceiling 24,000 ft

Armament

4 × 0.303 in (7.7 mm) Browning guns (nose [2] & dorsal [2])
1,200 lb of bombs or depth charges or one torpedo.


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Last plane is a heavy fighter as CAC tries to get back into the fighter business after losing the fighter contract to Australian Aviation. CAC teamed up with Heinkel (secretly) to design this new plane. The wing is very similar to that of the He-112.



CAC-11 Strix (based on OTL Weiss WM-23 Ezustnyil )

Power: Pratt & Witney 1,350 hp R-1830 Twin Wasp

Armament: Four 7.62/0.3in machine guns

Size: Wingspan - 34ft 9 in
Length - 34ft
Wing area - 250sq ft

Weight: Empty - 5500lb
Max take-off - 9000lb

Performance: Max speed - 340mph
Ceiling - 29,000ft
Range - 900 miles
Climb - 3200ft per minute

http://www.aviastar.org/air/hungary/weiss_wm-23.php

Now for Australian Aviation:

First up is the racing plane seen elsewhere. Designed to compete at the Schneider races the plane has been developed as a seaborne long range heavy fighter.



AA-5 Kelpie (sounds better than Hippocamp) aka Lake Eyre Monster.

Floatplane version (non-RG)

Power: 2x Rolls Royce Merlins 1100hp

Length: 35 ft
Wingspan: 40 ft
Height: 13 ft
Wing area: 280 ft²

Empty, 8700 lb
Max Take Off, 15700 lb

Max Speed, 380mph
Range, 1,100miles

Armament: Four 7.62/0.3in machine guns, two 20mm cannons, 1,500lbs of bombs & rockets, or oone torpedo.


Landbased version (RG)

Power: 2x Rolls Royce Merlins 1100hp

Length: 35 ft
Wingspan: 40 ft
Height: 13 ft
Wing area: 280 ft²

Empty, 8500 lb
Max Take Off, 15000 lb

Max Speed, 415mph
Range, 770miles

Armament: Four 7.62/0.3in machine guns, two 20mm cannons, 1,500lbs of bombs & rockets (no torpedoes).

I did some changes to make the plane more realistic. But it should still be fast, even with floats. After all it was originally designed as a race plane.



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The next plane is a 3/4 scale experimental plane. The final product is to be a strike aircraft mounting a 40mm cannon.



AA-6 Dragonfly (OTL Miles M.39 Libellula)

General characteristics

Crew: 1
Length: 22 ft 2 in (6.76 m)
Wingspan: * Front 25 ft
Rear: 37 ft 6 in (7.6 m and 11.43 m)
Height: 9 ft 3 in (2.82 m)
Wing area: 61.7 ft² and 187.5 ft² (6.64 m² and 20.16 m²)
Empty weight: 2,405 lb (1,091 kg)
Loaded weight: 2,800 lb (1,270 kg)
Powerplant: 2× de Havilland Gipsy Major IC inline piston, 140 hp (104 KW) each
Performance

Maximum speed: 164 mph (264 km/h)
Stall speed: 60 mph (97 km/h)
Rate of climb: 1,100 ft/min (5.59 m/s)

Artis conception of full size aircraft with RR Kestrel engines. Armament is to be 1-2 40mm cannons and 4 0.3 cal MGs. Speed is estimated at the 300mph with a 1,000+ mile range.


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Australian Aviation is also working on an advanced trainer and has been seen talking to Fokker representatives...

I thought about using the Miles Monitor too but it´s a 1944er design and hence too early to use her.

Or was it your intention to say the pic is from the Monitor while your plane has reduced stats? O.o

Yeah, I'm just using the pic for now. Except for the Libellula, all the specs are modified one way or another. Those for the Pelican only slightly, while those for the Wombat quite a bit. Only the size and weight of the Wombat are similar to the Monitor, the performance figures were reduced quite a bit to fit the time frame.