CAMS 30E

The CAMS 30E was a two-seat, single-engine flying boat was produced in France in the early 1920s.

History

It was the first flying boat for the French aerospace company Chantiers Aero -Maritimes de la Seine (short: CAMS ), the Italian Raffaele Conflenti ( 1889-1946 ) developed. Conflenti was previously employed by the Società Idrovolanti Alta Italia ( SIAI ).

The CAMS Series 30E was a biplane and was used as a flying boat trainer. The prototype was presented in 1922 at the Air Show Salon de l' Aéronautique in Paris. The positive development of type resulted in orders in the order that alone was 22 aircraft for the French military and export deliveries of 7 for Yugoslavia and 4 for Poland.

The version for General Aviation was known as CAMS 30T and had two additional passenger seats. In August 1924, the factory driver Ernest Burri started with this machine to a world round trip and set the speed record for passenger seaplane. The production figures for the CAMS 30T are not precisely known.

Variants

  • CAMS 30E (1922 ) two-seat military trainer flying boat
  • CAMS 31 (1922 ) single-seat prototype with Hispano -Suiza engine 8Fb, it served to test the built later CAMS 31P ( Post flying boat )
  • CAMS 30T, (1924 ) passenger version of the CAMS 30E with two additional seats

Data of the trainer version

  • Crew: 2, pilot and instructor
  • Length: 9.28 m
  • Wingspan: 12.40 m
  • Height: 3.12 m
  • Wing area: 43.0 m2
  • Empty weight: 885 kg
  • Total weight: 1180 kg
  • Powerplant: 1 × Hispano -Suiza 8A, power 112 kW ( 150 hp) with four-bladed pusher propeller
  • Cruising speed: ~ 153 km / h
Hispano-Suiza 8
160830
de