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Canada's First Military Aircraft - the Burgess-Dunne (D.8)
This aircraft isn't anywhere in this forum, but was actually purchased by two countries for their war effort in WWI. The Canadian Air Corps, and the US Navy.
Flying Wings Site - Dunne
This site has farmed a few others for information, putting some excerpts on it's page. It has a color scheme for the US Navy planes, and a drawing of a US Signal's Corps machine with a gun mounted in the forward observers position. The mount is a single-pivot mount, not a scarf-mount, so it would not have the 270 firing arc I would like it to have.
Wikipedia article - Dunne_D.8
And Fiddler's Green has already done up a paper model!
Fiddlers Green: Burgess-Dunne-FlyingWing
Line Drawings of the aircraft:
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The Burgess-Dunne never saw combat, as far as any records I have found, and although Canada shipped one to England, it never flew there. It was damaged in shipping, and was deemed unsuitable for combat by the English services, and therefore never repaired. It was left, rotting in the damp English environment, and finally written off.
The US Navy actually flew at least two of these on the East Coast of the US. I haven't researched much, as it wasn't my focus. Anyway, with the assistance of Max Headroom, I have done up an aircraft card for the game, and am puttering away at a card design to build and fly in Wings of War.
JPEG of Airplane Card:
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Photoshop files:
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I have done some comparisons to other aircraft for the stats, and come up with the following:
Maneuverability: I went with similar aircraft of it's time (1914-15) and used the "J" deck. It was supposed to be quite stable in flight, and possibly too stable for a "fighter". Now that I have a "J" deck, I will try out using this in combat, and see if I need to adjust it. Yeah. Just looked at the deck, and the Immelmann will have to go, at least.
Weapons: B damage, as it was not a very powerful aircraft, so go with one machine gun. Whatever was usable by a pusher should be usable by the Burgess-Dunne. But the firing arc should be about 270 degrees around the front, with 360 degrees above it's altitude, like the FE2b and the Vickers FB5.
Damage: It doesn't appear to be a very robust design, so I didn't give it much damage.
Word File on design and comparison for stats:
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Hope some of the Canadian Flyers try this out.
Mike
