Let Let Let – Warplanes

Bréguet also built a civil variant as the Br.530 Saigon. Two were supplied to Air France as F- AMSV Algérie and F-AMSX Tunisie for use in the Mediterranean. The Saigon was fitted with three 785 hp Hispano-Suiza 12Ybr liquid-cooled V-12 engines and had accommodation for up to 20 passengers with a crew of two. A long-range trans-Atlantic mail-plane version was known as the Dakar, but this was never built.

Technical details:

Power plants: 3 Gnome & Rhone 14 Kirs 14-cylinder radial air-cooled engines of 900 hp each
Dimensions: wingspan 35.13 m
length 20.28 m
height 7.65 m
wing area 170 m2
Weights: empty 9150 kg
all-up loaded 16 000 kg
Performances: max. speed 255 km/h at 2000 m
range 2100 km
service ceiling 6000 m
Equipment: five Darne 7.5 mm machine guns and provision for a 300 kg bomb load

C.A.M.S. 110

C.A.M.S., or Chantiers Aéro-Maritimes de la Seine was a company based at 75 Avenue des Champs Elysées in Paris and specialised in the design and construction of naval aircraft. One of their products was the C.A.M.S. 36 Schneider Cup racer of 1926. In the early thirties they designed a twin-engined maritime patrol flying boat as the CAMS 110. It featured an all-metal hull with a fully enclosed cockpit section with capacity for a crew of six. Further, it had wooden biplane wings and a centrally placed engine nacelle for two engines driving a tractor and a pushed propeller. The plane was intended to operate autonomously from remote locations. A prototype was constructed, making its first flight in July 1934. Unfortunately it was not ordered for production and only the single prototype was built.

Technical details:

Power plants: two Hispano-Suiza 12Ydrs liquid-cooled in-line engines of 860 hp each
Dimensions: wingspan 22.50 m
length 16.30 m
height 6.00 m
wing area 115 m2
Weights: empty 5520 kg
all-up loaded 9250 kg
Performances: max. speed 240 km/h at 2300 m
range 1100 km
service ceiling 6500 m
Equipment: provision for two machine guns in the nose and another two in a dorsal position behind the wings.

Lioré et Olivier H.242

Largely based on the earlier two-engine Lioré et Olivier H.24 the larger four-engine H.242 flying boat appeared in 1933 when it made its first flight on 30 March of that year. It was made of mixed construction with a metal fuselage and a wooden wing. The four engines were placed in two tandem nacelles on struts placed on top the wing centre section driving a tractor and pusher propeller. The H.242 featured further a shoulder wing, a high-placed horizontal tailplane and two braced wingfloats. Two H.242′s with c/n 1 and 2 were built for Air France for use on Mediterranean routes, carrying the civil registrations F-AMOU and F- AMUL and the names Ville de Tunis and Ville d’Alger. F-AMOU was lost in a accident, but F-AMUL was used until the Mediterranean services were terminated by Air France.

Based on the relative success of the LeO H.242, another 12 production models were ordered for the same use by Air France on the Mediterranean lines as the LeO H.242-1. They differed in appearance by the rounded shape of the engine nacelles instead of the rectangular shape used on the H.242. The planes were supplied, registered and named as follows:

Related posts:

1. Dutch flying boats and amphibians
2. German flying boats Part 1: 1914-1935
3. German flying boats Part 2: 1935-2000
4. Vanneau history
5. Dornier Do-28 amphibian for the MLD

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