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CAMS 30E

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Top speed
  
153 km/h

Length
  
9.28 m

Wingspan
  
12 m

Designer
  
Raffaele Conflenti

Manufacturer
  
Chantiers Aéro-Maritimes de la Seine

The CAMS 30E was a two-seat flying boat trainer built in France in the early 1920s. It was the first aircraft designed for CAMS by Raffaele Conflenti after he had been recruited by the company from his previous job at Società Idrovolanti Alta Italia (SIAI). It was a conventional design for the era featuring a two-bay equal-span unstaggered biplane wing cellule. The prototype was exhibited at the 1922 Salon de l'Aéronautique and evaluated the following year by the Aéronautique Maritime. The type's favourable performance led to an order of 22 machines for the French military and an export order of seven for Yugoslavia and four for Poland.

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A single civil example was produced as the CAMS 30T with two extra passenger seats. In August 1924, Ernest Burri used this machine to break the world air speed record for a passenger-carrying seaplane.

Variants

  • CAMS 30E - Production military flying-boat trainer.
  • CAMS 30T - Passenger version of the CAMS30E with two extra seats.

    • Operators

     France
  • Aeronautique Maritime
    •  Kingdom of Yugoslavia
  • Yugoslav Royal Navy
    •  Poland

    Specifications (30E)

    General characteristics

  • Crew: two, pilot and instructor
  • Length: 9.28 m (30 ft 5 in)
  • Wingspan: 12.40 m (40 ft 8 in)
  • Height: 3.12 m (10 ft 3 in)
  • Wing area: 43.0 m2 (463 ft2)
  • Empty weight: 885 kg (1,951 lb)
  • Gross weight: 1,180 kg (2,601 lb)
  • Powerplant: 1 × Hispano-Suiza 8A, 112 kW (150 hp)

    • Performance

  • Maximum speed: 153 km/h (95 mph)

    • References

    CAMS 30E Wikipedia
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