Sud-Est SE.200 Amphitrite
{{Short description|French flying boat airliner with 6 piston engines, 1942}}
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| name=LeO H-49, SE.200 Amphitrite | image=SNCASE SE-200 top front photo L'Aerophile September 1945.jpg | caption=SE-200 }}{{Infobox aircraft type | type=Airliner | national origin=France | manufacturer=Lioré et Olivier, SNCASE | first flight=11 December 1942 | status=abandoned | primary user= | number built=2 }} |
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The Sud-Est SE.200 Amphitrite (named after Amphitrite) was a flying boat airliner built in France in the late 1930s,Taylor 1989, 844 originally developed as the Lioré et Olivier LeO H-49 before the nationalisation of the French aircraft industry. It was a large, six-engine design with a high-set cantilever monoplane wing, and twin tails. It was developed in response to a French air ministry specification of 1936 for a transatlantic airliner for Air France with a range of {{convert|6,000|km|mi|abbr=on}} and a capacity for 20 passengers and 500 kg of cargo.Hartmann 2000, 4 Designs were submitted by Latécoère, Lioré et Olivier and by Potez-CAMS as the Laté 631, LeO H.49 and the Potez-CAMS 161 respectively, and examples of all designs were approved for construction. A large mock-up, resting on simulated water, was displayed at the 1938 Salon de l'Aéronautique.Flight 1 December 1938, 506
Four SE.200s were under construction at Marignane at the outbreak of the Second World War, and work on them continued after the fall of France, along with a fifth aircraft now started. The first aircraft, christened Rochambeau flew on 11 December 1942.Hartmann 2000, 16 Following testing, it was seized by the German occupation and taken to the Bodensee, where it was destroyed in an air raid by RAF Mosquitos on 17 April 1944.Hartmann 2000, 18 A USAAF raid on Marignane on 16 September destroyed the second SE.200 and badly damaged the other airframes.
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.Hartmann 2000, 24 Plans existed to also complete the fourth airframe, but this did not happen and it and the fifth airframe were scrapped. The remains of the first SE.200 were raised by Dornier in 1966.
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Specifications
File:SNCASE SE-200 3-view L'Aerophile September 1945.jpg
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|ref=Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1947{{cite book |title=Jane's all the World's Aircraft 1947 |editor1-last=Bridgman |editor1-first=Leonard |year=1947 |publisher=Sampson Low, Marston & Co |location=London |pages=135c–136c}}
|prime units?=met
|crew=8-10 (including cabin crew)
|capacity=80 max (40 max as a night sleeper)
|length m=40.15
|span m=52.2
|height m=9.73
|wing area sqm=340
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|airfoil=root:NACA 2418; tip:NACA 2409
|empty weight kg=32746
|gross weight kg=72000
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|fuel capacity={{convert|38000|L|USgal impgal|abbr=on}} in inter-spar wing tanks
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|eng1 number=3
|eng1 name=Gnome-Rhône 14R-26
|eng1 type=14 cylinder air-cooled two-row radial piston engine
|eng1 hp=1600
|eng1 note=for take-off; LH rotation (fitted to starboard)
|eng2 number=3
|eng2 name=Gnome-Rhône 14R-27
|eng2 type=14 cylinder air-cooled two-row radial piston engine
|eng2 hp=1600
|eng2 note=for take-off; RH rotation (fitted to port)
|prop blade number=3
|prop name=variable-pitch reversible propellers
|prop dia m=
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|prop dia in=
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|max speed kmh=305
|max speed note=at {{convert|2500|m|abbr=on}}
|cruise speed kmh=235
|range km=6060
|range note=maximum in {{cvt|60|km/h}} headwind
|ceiling m=5000
|climb rate ms=3.7
|wing loading kg/m2=212
|power/mass= 12.2 kg/kW (20 lb/hp) (at {{convert|984|kW|abbr=on}} per engine)
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References
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- {{cite magazine |last=Bousquet |first=Gerard |title=SE 200, paquetbot de l'air |magazine=Le Fana de l'Aviation |date=August 1998 |issue=345 |pages=10–17 |language=fr}}
- {{cite magazine |last=Bousquet |first=Gerard |title=SE 200, paquetbot de l'air: Deuxième partie |magazine=Le Fana de l'Aviation |date=September 1998 |issue=346 |pages=40–51 |language=fr}}
- {{cite magazine |last=Bousquet |first=Gerard |title=SE 200, paquetbot de l'air: Troisième partie |magazine=Le Fana de l'Aviation |date=October 1998 |issue=347 |pages=30–35 |language=fr}}
- {{cite magazine |last=Bousquet |first=Gerard |title=SE 200, paquetbot de l'air: Quatrième partie |magazine=Le Fana de l'Aviation |date=November 1998 |issue=348 |pages=20–31 |language=fr}}
- {{cite web |last=Hartmann |first=Gérard |title=L'hydravion le plus rapide du monde fut conçu à Argenteuil |work=Dossiers historiques et techniques aéronautique française |date=3 May 2000 |url=http://www.hydroretro.net/etudegh/se200.pdf |access-date=2008-10-03 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041105180024/http://www.hydroretro.net/etudegh/se200.pdf |archive-date=5 November 2004 }}
- Hartmann, Gérard. Les avions Lioré et Olivier. Boulogne-Billancourt, France: ETAI. 2002. {{ISBN|2-7268-8607-8}} (in French)
- {{cite book |last= Taylor |first= Michael J. H. |title=Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation |year=1989 |publisher=Studio Editions |location=London |isbn= 0-7106-0710-5 }}
- {{cite magazine| title=The Civil Side at the Paris Show |journal=Flight |pages=506 |url=http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1938/1938%20-%203400.html |access-date=2008-10-03 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20141218204259/http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1938/1938%20-%203400.html |archive-date=2014-12-18 }}
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=bNYDAAAAMBAJ&dq=popular+mechanics+1943+flying+shark&pg=PA74 "Six Motored French Air Giant Weighs 63-tons"] Popular Mechanics, June 1943
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