CAMS 30E

The CAMS 30E was a two-seat flying boat trainer built in France in the early 1920s. It was the first aircraft designed for CAMS by Raffaele Conflenti after he had been recruited by the company from his previous job at Società Idrovolanti Alta Italia (SIAI). It was a conventional design for the era featuring a two-bay equal-span unstaggered biplane wing cellule. The prototype was exhibited at the 1922 Salon de l'Aéronautique and evaluated the following year by the Aéronautique Maritime. The type's favourable performance led to an order of 22 machines for the French military and an export order of seven for Yugoslavia and four for Poland.

CAMS 30
A CAMS 30E
General information
Type	Flying boat trainer
Manufacturer	CAMS
Designer	Raffaele Conflenti
Number built	31
History
First flight	1922
Variants	CAMS 46ET

A single civil example was produced as the CAMS 30T with two extra passenger seats. In August 1924, Ernest Burri used this machine to break the world air speed record for a passenger-carrying seaplane.

Variants

• CAMS 30E - Production military flying-boat trainer.^[1]
• CAMS 30T - Passenger version of the CAMS30E with two extra seats.

A CAMS 30T

Operators

 France

• Aeronautique Maritime

Kingdom of Yugoslavia

• Yugoslav Royal Navy

Poland

Specifications (30E)

Data from Jane's all the World's Aircraft 1924,^[2] Aviafrance:CAMS 30E^[1]

General characteristics

• Crew: 2
• Length: 9.28 m (30 ft 5 in)
• Wingspan: 12.4 m (40 ft 8 in)
• Height: 3.12 m (10 ft 3 in)
• Wing area: 43 m² (460 sq ft)
• Empty weight: 885 kg (1,951 lb)
• Gross weight: 1,180 kg (2,601 lb)
• Powerplant: 1 × Hispano-Suiza 8Aa V-8 water-cooled piston engine, 110 kW (150 hp)

Performance

• Maximum speed: 153 km/h (95 mph, 83 kn)
• Wing loading: 27.5 kg/m² (5.6 lb/sq ft)
• Power/mass: 0.0893 kW/kg (0.0543 hp/lb)