Sud-Est SE.200 Amphitrite
| LeO H-49, SE.200 Amphitrite | |
|---|---|
| |
| SE-200 | |
| Role | Airliner |
| National origin | France |
| Manufacturer | Lioré et Olivier, SNCASE |
| First flight | 11 December 1942 |
| Status | abandoned |
| Number built | 2 |
The Sud-Est SE.200 Amphitrite (named after
Salon de l'Aéronautique.[3]
Four SE.200s were under construction at
USAAF raid on Marignane on 16 September destroyed the second SE.200 and badly damaged the other machines.[5]
Enough work on the third SE.200 had been carried out to make salvage worthwhile after the war. This aircraft eventually flew on 2 April 1946 but was damaged in a hard landing in October 1949 and was not repaired.[6] Plans existed to also complete the fourth aircraft, but this did not happen and it and the fifth machine were scrapped. The remains of the first SE.200 were raised by Dornier in 1966.[6]
Operators
Specifications
Data from Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1947[7]
General characteristics
- Crew: 8-10 (including cabin crew)
- Capacity: 80 max (40 max as a night sleeper)
- Length: 40.15 m (131 ft 9 in)
- Wingspan: 52.2 m (171 ft 3 in)
- Height: 9.73 m (31 ft 11 in)
- Wing area: 340 m2 (3,700 sq ft)
- Airfoil: root:NACA 2418; tip:NACA 2409
- Empty weight: 32,746 kg (72,193 lb)
- Gross weight: 72,000 kg (158,733 lb)
- Fuel capacity: 38,000 L (10,000 US gal; 8,400 imp gal) in inter-spar wing tanks
- Powerplant: 3 × Gnome-Rhône 14R-2614 cylinder air-cooled two-row radial piston engine, 1,200 kW (1,600 hp) each for take-off; LH rotation (fitted to starboard)
- Powerplant: 3 × Gnome-Rhône 14R-2714 cylinder air-cooled two-row radial piston engine, 1,200 kW (1,600 hp) each for take-off; RH rotation (fitted to port)
- Propellers: 3-bladed variable-pitch reversible propellers
Performance
- Maximum speed: 305 km/h (190 mph, 165 kn) at 2,500 m (8,200 ft)
- Cruise speed: 235 km/h (146 mph, 127 kn)
- Range: 6,060 km (3,770 mi, 3,270 nmi) maximum in 60 km/h (37 mph) headwind
- Service ceiling: 5,000 m (16,000 ft)
- Rate of climb: 3.7 m/s (730 ft/min)
- Wing loading: 212 kg/m2 (43 lb/sq ft)
- Power/mass: 12.2 kg/kW (20 lb/hp) (at 984 kW (1,320 hp) per engine)
See also
Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era
Related lists
References
Notes
Bibliography
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- Bousquet, Gerard (August 1998). "SE 200, paquetbot de l'air". Le Fana de l'Aviation (in French). No. 345. pp. 10–17.
- Bousquet, Gerard (September 1998). "SE 200, paquetbot de l'air: Deuxième partie". Le Fana de l'Aviation (in French). No. 346. pp. 40–51.
- Bousquet, Gerard (October 1998). "SE 200, paquetbot de l'air: Troisième partie". Le Fana de l'Aviation (in French). No. 347. pp. 30–35.
- Bousquet, Gerard (November 1998). "SE 200, paquetbot de l'air: Quatrième partie". Le Fana de l'Aviation (in French). No. 348. pp. 20–31.
- Hartmann, Gérard (3 May 2000). "L'hydravion le plus rapide du monde fut conçu à Argenteuil" (PDF). Dossiers historiques et techniques aéronautique française. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 November 2004. Retrieved 2008-10-03.
- Hartmann, Gérard. Les avions Lioré et Olivier. Boulogne-Billancourt, France: ETAI. 2002. ISBN 2-7268-8607-8(in French)
- Taylor, Michael J. H. (1989). Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation. London: Studio Editions. ISBN 0-7106-0710-5.
- "The Civil Side at the Paris Show". Flight. p. 506. Archived from the original on 2014-12-18. Retrieved 2008-10-03.
- "Six Motored French Air Giant Weighs 63-tons" Popular Mechanics, June 1943