Ramandu Linsang
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| Specifications | |
| Developer: | Ramandu Aircraft Company |
| Inservice date: | 1915 - 1920 |
| Crew: | 1 |
| Length: | 6.88 m |
| Wingspan: | 8.76 m |
| Height: | 3.00 m |
| Weight: | 640 kg (empty) 895 kg (loaded) |
| Propulsion: | 1x 8-cylinder in-line engine, developing 162hp |
| Maximum Speed: | 178 km/h |
| Operational ceiling: | 5,000 m |
| Endurance: | 1.5 hours |
| Armament | 2x forward-firing 7.91mm machine guns 2x "Hot Arrow" incendiary rockets (some models) |
The Ramandu Linsang was a biplane fighter aircraft of the Allied States of Inutoland from the World War 1 period, introduced in late 1915.
Named after a small weasel-like arboreal predator, the Linsang was an agile aircraft, marginally longer and slimmer than the similar Predator mark 9 Kraken of Noders.
The Linsang was one of the better small single-seat fighter aircraft of the Inutoland Air Force in the period, with a good rate of climb and a relatively high operational ceiling making it superb against enemy dirigibles. To this end, many Linsangs were fitted with two "Hot Arrow" incendiary rockets under the lower wing for attacking zeppelin-type dirigibles.
Its twin forward-firing 7.91mm Inuto calibre machine guns fired through the propeller arc, thanks to an Inutolander-developed interruptor mechanism which sychronised the firing of the weapons to the propeller's rotation.
The Linsang's controls were responsive and fairly light, enough that inexperienced fliers often had problems making the aircraft behave. It had the advantage of a very soft stall, though, being able to almost "hang on its propeller" to shoot upwards from the blind spot beneath an enemy's tail. Its one major issue was a structural weakness that manifested itself when the aircraft was put into too steep a dive. Though this was corrected in the late 1916 model Linsang, the Ramandu aircraft retained its reputation as an aircraft to dive cautiously in.
 Aircraft of the Inutoland Air Force
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| Ramandu Cyclone · Tulani TwinHammer · Waris Sunhawk · Pauro Stingray · Tulani Trident |
| Soro Victory · Soro Valiant · Waris Sealion · Peerless-class Air Carrier |
| Inter-War aircraft: |
| Pauro Stormbird |
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| Ramandu Linsang · Pauro Feathered Dragon · Soro Shadow · Oequiyau Spanker |
| Overlord-class · Majestic-class · Echelon-class |
