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The Caudron Type K was a Fench floatplane with a very powerful, twenty cylinder radial engine in pusher configuration. It took part in a French seaplane competition in 1913 but was lost in a take-off accident during the competition. ==Design== Before the Type K Caudron had built two pusher floatplanes, the single seat Caudron-Fabre amphibian and a two seat version of it for Claude Graham-White. The two seat Type K was a significantly larger aircraft with three bay wings, rather than two, and a much more powerful Anzani engine than before. Nonetheless it had shared many of the characteristics of early Caudron designs, with unequal span, two spar wings and open frame fuselages bearing twin fins and rudders.〔 The Type K had rectangular plan wings with slightly angled tips. The upper wing span was 45% greater than that of the lower; on each side the upper and lower wings were joined by three sets of vertical, parallel interplane struts and another parallel pair leaning outwards and upwards to brace the outer parts of the upper wing. A , twenty cylinder, four-row air-cooled Anzani 20 radial engine was mounted in pusher configuration centrally between the wings, driving a propeller between the twin tailbooms. A cylindrical petrol tank was mounted laterally ahead of the engine and over the wing leading edge, at the back of a short fuselage pod in which the crew of two sat side-by-side in an open cockpit. This was a flat sided structure, with its upper surface curving sharply downwards.〔 The rear part of the Type K's fuselage was an open structure with two girders, each vertically cross braced and converging in profile, parallel to each other in plan and cross-linked horizontally at the tail. This was fairly standard on the Caudron's of the period but was elaborated on the Type K by another long pair of members from the lower wing upwards; these secured the posts of a tall, narrow pair of constant chord rudders with quadrantal tips. The tailplane, approximately rectangular in plan but cut away for rudder movement, was placed on the upper tail girders.〔 The Type K was a pure floatplane, with no permanent land wheels. The floats were long (more than half the fuselage length), single stepped and rectangular in section, wide and deep.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Caudron Type K」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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