Romano R-110

1938


FIGHTER	Virtual Aircraft Museum / France / Romano

Intended to fulfil the demands of an October 1934 specification calling for a three-seat fighter to serve as an aerial command post for single-seat fighters - a role to which were subsequently added those of bomber interception and escort - the R-110 was flown for the first time on 30 March 1938. Of mixed construction, with plywood-covered wooden wings and a welded steeltube fuselage, the R-110 was powered by two 450hp Renault 12 Ro 2/3 12-cylinder air-cooled engines and carried an armament of two fixed 20mm cannon and a single 7.5mm machine gun on a flexible mount in the aft cockpit. The R-110 was unusual in that the pilot and aircraft commander were seated behind separate vertically- staggered stepped windscreens. The competing Potez 630 had appeared in production form before the R-110 prototype entered flight test and further development of the latter was discontinued.

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A three-view drawing (1280 x 838)

Specification

WEIGHTS
Take-off weight	3300 kg	7275 lb
Empty weight	2165 kg	4773 lb
DIMENSIONS
Wingspan	12.80 m	42 ft 0 in
Length	9.66 m	32 ft 8 in
Height	3.37 m	11 ft 1 in
Wing area	24.00 m²	258.33 sq ft
PERFORMANCE
Max. speed	470 km/h	292 mph
Range	1280 km	795 miles

Comments

Klaatu83, e-mail, 29.08.2016 21:41

The idea behind this aircraft goes back to the WW-I concept of a multi-engine, multi-seat fighter, known to the French as the "Multiplace de Combat". The most successful examples of the genre were the Caudron R.4, R.11, R.12 and R.14 series , which were built in large numbers from 1915-1918. After WW-I the French persisted with the idea, and continued to develop aircraft of that type right up to the Potez 630 series of WW-II. Unfortunately, aerial combat had moved on, and the concept of the "Miltiplace de Combat" became discredited during the 1940 Battle of France.

zhaoman, 21.06.2011 07:26

flight test and further development of the latter was discontinued.

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