Potez 34
| Potez 34 | |
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| Type: | Experimental airplane |
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| First flight: |
May 1929 |
| Number of pieces: |
1 |
The Potez 34 (also Potez 34 Hispano ) was a French long-range test aircraft manufactured in 1929 in a single copy by the aircraft and aircraft engine construction company Aéroplanes Henry Potez , which was intended to establish the air link between France and French Indochina .
Technical specifications
The Potez 34 was a two-seater high - decker with a wingspan of 18.30 m , length 11.50 m and height of 3.91 m. The wings had a bearing surface of 61 m 2 . The aircraft had a 600 hp (447 kW) engine of the Hispano-Suiza 12Lbr type , with which it reached a top speed of 200 km / h. The service ceiling was 4000 meters, the maximum flight distance was 6700 km. The empty weight of the machine was 1900 kg, fully loaded it weighed 5920 kg.
history
The first flight took place in May 1929. The aircraft with the registration number F-AJHU was lost in December 1929 while trying to fly from Paris to Saigon . Joseph Le Brix , Antoine Paillard and their mechanic Camille Jousse made a first attempt to fly from Marseille to Saigon at the end of February 1929 with their Bernard 197 GR about 11,220 km to Burma , but then had to make an emergency landing in a rice field and that Cancel company. Le Brix began a second attempt on December 16, 1929 with the Potez 34 , and with Maurice Rossi as co-pilot. This also failed. After 72 hours of flight time and 10,500 kilometers of flight, the two had to give up their plane on December 22nd, 1929 at night due to heavy weather over the rainforest of Burma and rescue themselves by parachute . The machine was a total loss. Rossi was injured while jumping because his parachute tore.