Loire 210
| Loire 210 | |
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| Type: | Fighter plane |
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| First flight: |
March 21, 1935 |
| Commissioning: |
1938 |
| Number of pieces: |
20th |
The French float - fighter Loire 210 was created in the second half of the 1930s. Due to structural weaknesses, it was only part of the French Navy for a very short time.
history
The design is based on a tender by the French Navy from 1933, which required a catapult launch fighter aircraft. It was planned to equip the two battle cruisers Strasbourg and Dunkerque with it, and the coastal defense should receive some copies. The Romano R.90 , the Bernard 110 and the Potez 453 were developed as competing models .
Loire constructed the 210 closely based on the high-decker Loire 46 . The prototype Loire 210.01 was equipped with a Hispano-Suiza 9Vbs engine and two 4.5 mm machine guns and completed its maiden flight on March 21, 1935. The comparison flights with the competing prototypes dragged on, ultimately the Loire was able to break 210 prevailed against their competitors despite their low speed, and Loire was awarded the contract for 20 series machines in March 1937. These differed from the prototype by the stronger armament with four 7.5 mm Darne machine guns that were mounted in the surfaces.
In November 1938, the Navy took over the first copies and subjected them to several sea and catapult tests, which dragged on until January 1939. In August 1939, the Loire 210s built were split between the Escadrilles HC.1 and HC.2. When five machines crashed within three months due to structural failure and other accidents occurred, the Loire 210 was banned from flying and the squadrons were disbanded at the end of 1939.
An improved version called Loire 211 did not get beyond the project stage.
construction
The Loire 210 was almost identical to the Loire 46, from which the fuselage and the tail unit were taken. Only the wing was a new design. It was two-spar and sheet metal, was in the low wing design on the fuselage and had a larger span . Its outer wings were covered with fabric and could be folded up for use on ships. The front part of the fuselage consisted of a sheet-metal, welded tubular steel frame . The rear part was constructed in light metal half-shell construction. The Loire 210 had a main float under the hull and two support floats under the wings, all of which were stepped , keeled and made of corrosion-resistant light metal .
Technical specifications
| Parameter | Data |
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| Manufacturer | Loire Aviation |
| Conception | Catapult and ocean-going fighter aircraft |
| Construction year | 1938 |
| crew | 1 |
| length | 9.50 m |
| span | 11.79 m |
| height | 3.00 m |
| Wing area | 20.3 m² |
| Empty mass | 1480 kg |
| Takeoff mass | normal 2180 kg maximum 2300 kg |
| Top speed | 345 km / h at an altitude of 3000 m |
| Marching speed | 285 km / h at an altitude of 3000 m |
| Rate of climb | 500 m / min |
| Service ceiling | 8000 m |
| Range | normal 750 km maximum 865 km |
| Radius of action | 350 km |
| Flight duration | 3.0 h |
| Seaworthiness | up to swell 3 |
| Engine | a 9-cylinder radial engine Hispano-Suiza 9Vbs; 529.5 kW (720 hp) |
| Armament | four rigid 7.5 mm MG Darne in the wings |
literature
- Ulrich Israel: Floatplanes of the Second World War . In: Wolfgang Sellenthin (Ed.): German Fliegerkalender 1970 . German Military Publishing House, Berlin 1969, p. 182/183 .
- William Green: Floatplanes. In: War Planes of the Second World War. Volume 6, 3rd edition. MacDonald, 1968, ISBN 0-356-01450-9 , pp. 45 f.
