CAMS 30E
flying boat trainer
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.
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)
Data from Jane's all the World's Aircraft 1924, Aviafrance:CAMS 30EGeneral characteristics
Crew: 2
Length: 9.28 m (30 ft 5 in)
Wingspan: 12.4 m (40 ft 8 in)
Height: 3.12 m (10 ft 3 in)
Wing area: 43 m2 (460 sq ft)
Empty weight: 885 kg (1,951 lb)
Gross weight: 1,180 kg (2,601 lb)
Powerplant: 1 × Hispano-Suiza 8Aa V-8 water-cooled piston engine, 110 kW (150 hp)
Performance
Maximum speed: 153 km/h (95 mph, 83 kn)
Wing loading: 27.5 kg/m2 (5.6 lb/sq ft)
Power/mass: 0.0893 kW/kg (0.0543 hp/lb)
References
Bibliography
Cortet, Pierre (November 1999).
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