[Radoye]

French cont'd:

SNCAO (Nieuport) ACA-5 a.k.a Kolko Fighter - lightweight fighter project





Armed with 4x7.5mm, it was a proposal for the smallest and lightest possible fighter design. Wind tunnel tests showed problems with directional stability so the project was rejected in 1939.

Span : 6.38 m
Length : 3.60 m
Height : 2.33 m
Max Speed : 645 km/h with 660hp Hispano-Suiza engine;
Initial climb : 31m/sec
Weights : empty 875Kg takeoff 1320 kg. fuel 320L.
Range : 1600 km

(Performance is estimated)


Arsenal VB.10, fighter prototype:

Developed from the VG.33 fighter, with an addition of a second engine behind the cockpit driving a coaxial counter-rotating propeller. It has been ordered in the production in 1940, but the development stopped due to war. It was finally finished and flown after liberation in 1945. Projected armament 4x20mm and 6x7.5mm.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenal_VB_10
http://www.aviastar.org/air/france/arsenal_vb-10.php
http://ww2drawings.jexiste.fr/Files/2-A ... l-VB10.htm
http://ww2drawings.jexiste.fr/Files/2-A ... B10.01.htm
http://www.airwar.ru/enc/fww2/vb10.html
http://www.samoloty.ow.pl/str293.htm



http://www.aviastar.org/pictures/france ... _vb-10.gif