Caudron C.362
The Caudron C.362 and the almost identical C.366 were single-seat racing aircraft built in 1933 by Caudron to compete in the Coupe Deutsch de la Meurthe competition. Design. The C.362 and C.366 were single-seat, low-wing monoplanes with a fixed undercarriage. Construction was of wood, with a single-spar wing of symmetrical airfoil section, the spar having spruce flanges and a birch plywood web. It was equipped with split trailing edge flaps. The principal difference between the two types was the powerplant employed. The C.362 was powered by a high compression ratio version of the Renault  Bengali air-cooled inverted four-cylinder inline engine developing while the C.366 was powered by a Regnier air-cooled inverted 6-cylinder inline. It had been intended to use this engine for all three aircraft, but development problems with it resulted in the use of the Renault engine in two of the airframes that had been constructed. The type was developed into the Caudron C.450 and C.460 racers, which won the "Coupe Deutsch de la Meurthe" in 1934, 1935 and 1936. Operational history. During trials for the "Coupe Deutsch de la Meurthe" the C.362 was flown by Caudron's chief  pilot Raymond Delmotte to establish two world speed records for light aircraft, covering at and at On 24 May Ludovic Arrachart was killed when his C.362 crashed after an engine failure while he was taking part in the trial flights for the "Coupe". The following day the C.366, flown by Valot, was badly damaged in a landing accident, forcing its withdrawal from the competition. The remaining aircraft, flown by Delmotte, finished second in the contest, completing the in 6h 52m 5s, a speed of . On 26 December 1934 Delmotte set a new record over of , and on 2 May  1935 Delmotte raised this to . The C.366 was flown to second place in the 1934 Coupe Deutsch de la Meurth by Louis Masotte, fitted with a Levasseur variable-pitch propeller.