Potez-CAMS 141
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| Type: | Flying boat , long-range reconnaissance aircraft |
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| First flight: |
January 21, 1938 |
| Commissioning: |
1939 |
| Number of pieces: |
1 |
The Potez CAMS 141 was a French reconnaissance - flying boat , which in the 1930s in the work of the French company CAMS was developed and manufactured.
development
The designer was Maurice Hurel . The first prototype flew for the first time at the end of January 1938, and official training for French naval aviators began in August of the same year at the Lanvéoc-Poulmic seaplane base .
Only one copy was shipped and registered as FW-071 before the German invasion of France began and production had to cease on June 18, 1940. The CAMS 141 was in service with the French Navy Escadrille from 1939 at bases in French North Africa until the end of 1943 and flew patrols in the Central and South Atlantic.
During the last use of the CAMS 141, which was labeled with the machine name Antares , the FW-071 sank the German submarine U 105 on June 2, 1943 in the mid-Atlantic off Dakar. At the end of 1943 the Antares was cannibalized and the rest scrapped.
Technical specifications
| Parameter | Data |
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| crew | 9-12 |
| length | 24.31 m |
| span | 41.01 m |
| height | 7.85 m |
| Wing area | 171.1 m² |
| Wing extension | 9.8 |
| Empty mass | 15,031 kg |
| Takeoff mass | normal 23,148 kg maximum 26,055 kg |
| Engines | 4 × liquid-cooled twelve-cylinder - V-engines with 640 kW (870 hp) and three-bladed propellers |
| Type | 2 x Hispano-Suiza 12Y-26 , 2 x Hispano-Suiza 12Y-27 |
| Wing loading | 135 kg / m² |
| Top speed | 320 km / h |
| Cruising speed | 260 km / h |
| Flight duration | 30 h |
| Service ceiling | 5,600 m |
| Armament | six 7.5 mm machine guns in different positions |
| Bomb load | up to 1500 kg bombs or mine ammunition |
literature
- William Green: Warplanes of the Second World War, Volume 5, Flying Boats . London: Macdonald 1968 ISBN 0-356-01449-5 , pp. 42-43
