Savoia-Marchetti SM.95
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| Type: | Airliner , transport aircraft |
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| First flight: |
May 8, 1943 |
| Production time: |
1943 to 1949 |
| Number of pieces: |
20th |
The Savoia-Marchetti SM.95 was a four-engine transport and airliner made by the Italian manufacturer Savoia-Marchetti in the 1940s. A few examples of the composite aircraft were built after the Second World War. It offered space for more than 40 passengers.
history
In 1937, Alessandro Marchetti began developing a four-engine successor to the SM.73 . This design, initially referred to as SM.76, was to have a cockpit crew of four people and 18 passenger seats. In addition, a version as a military transport aircraft was planned. In August 1939, planning for the civil version SM.95C (or SM.95 Civile ) was completed. When the war broke out, the project was temporarily suspended.
In 1942, the re-planning to a bomber with the designation SM.95B began, whose fuselage was to be taken over from the SM.83 . At the same time, the company built the first of four ordered prototypes of the transport version, which made its maiden flight on May 8, 1943 . After the Italian surrender in September 1943, the German Air Force took over the first series machine completed on August 3, 1943 (serial number 41001) and the second machine completed in February 1944 (serial number 41002) went to a German transport squadron. They were then lost in air raids on Germany.
After the end of the war, the victorious powers allowed further aircraft to be completed. Five of them came into the possession of the Italian Air Force, the rest served as civilian airliners. By stretching the fuselage, the number of passenger seats could usually be increased to 30. The Alitalia put this aircraft into its European network. The LATI (Linee Aeree Transcontinentali Italiane) also used the SM.95. The only foreign operator of this type was the Egyptian SAIDE , which acquired three of them.
The last machine was taken out of service in 1954. The further development to an all-metal aircraft with the project designation SM.95S did not come about.
construction
The SM.95 was constructed in a composite construction. The hull consisted of a tubular steel frame, which was planked with wood and covered with fabric. The front and lower parts of the fuselage received metal cladding. The wings of the low wing aircraft were made entirely of wood. The aircraft had a retractable tail wheel landing gear.
The four radial engines were attached to the leading edges of the wings. Originally, the manufacturer had intended the Alfa Romeo 126 as a drive. The delivery then took place with the more powerful Alfa Romeo 128 . The post-war models received some Bristol Pegasus or Pratt & Whitney Twin Wasp drives.
Incidents
From the first flight in 1943 to the end of operations in September 1954, the Savoia-Marchetti SM.95 suffered three total losses. In 2 of them 31 people were killed. Example:
- On January 17, 1951 (incorrectly registered as January 27 in the “Aviation Safety Network”) an Alitalia SM.95B ( aircraft registration I-DALO ) flew from Paris-Le Bourget to Rome-Ciampino Airport . During the flight, a fire developed in one wing, which was probably caused by a lightning strike. The machine crashed 8 kilometers from Civitavecchia ( Italy ). Of the twelve passengers and five crew members, ten passengers and four crew members died.
Technical specifications
| Parameters | Data |
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| crew | 4-5 |
| Passengers | 30-44 |
| length | 24.77 m |
| span | 34.28 m |
| height | 5.77 m |
| Wing area | 128.3 m² |
| Empty mass | 12,800 kg |
| Takeoff mass | 21,600 kg |
| Top speed | 400 km / h |
| Service ceiling | 6,500 m |
| Range | 2,000 km |
| Engines | four radial engines Alfa Romeo 128 RC.18 each with 640 kW (870 PS) |
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peter Herde: The Japan flight. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-515-07587-9 . Page 169
- ↑ Accident statistics Savoia-Marchetti SM-95 , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on March 9, 2019.
- ↑ ICAO Aircraft Accident Digest 2, Circular 24-AN / 21, Montreal 1951 (English), pp. 55-58.
- ^ Air-Britain Archive: Casualty compendium part 51 (English), December 1993, pp. 93/104.
- ↑ accident report SM.95 I-DALO , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on March 8 of 2019.