__NOTOC__ The CAMS 31 was a 1920s French single-seat fighter biplane flying-boat designed and built by

Chantiers Aéro-Maritimes de la Seine Chantiers Aéro-Maritimes de la Seine (CAMS) was a French manufacturer of flying boats, founded in Saint-Ouen in November 1920 by Lawrence Santoni. History Initially the company built Società Idrovolanti Alta Italia (SIAI) designs under licence ...

(CAMS).

Design and development

The CAMS 31 was a wooden-built two-bay equal span biplane with stabilising floats under each wing and an open cockpit forward of the lower-wing for the pilot. Powered by a Hispano-Suiza 8Fb inline piston engine driving a pusher propeller, the engine was strut mounted between the wings. The CAMS 31 was armed with two fixed hull-mounted

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s in the bow. The CAMS 31 prototype, later designated the CAMS 31 Type 22, first flew in 1922. A second prototype, the CAMS 31 Type 23, flew in 1923 with a reduced-span wing and wider chord but still had the same wing area as the Type 22. Testing proved the flying-boats handled well but were just not suitable as fighters and no more were built. A mail carrying postal variant was designated CAMS 31P

Variants

;CAMS 31 Type 22 :Original wing ;CAMS 31 Type 23 :Reduced span extended chord wing of same area ;CAMS 31M:Proposed production fighter, not proceeded with. ;CAMS 31P :Postal variant

Specifications (CAMS 31 Type 22)

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