{{Short description|1920s French flying boat}} <!-- This article is a part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Aircraft. Please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Aircraft/page content for recommended layout. --> {{Infobox aircraft |name=51 |image=C.A.M.S. 51 R.3.jpg |caption= |type=Transport and patrol flying boat |manufacturer=CAMS |designer=Maurice Hurel |first_flight=1926 |introduction= |retired= |status= |primary_user= |more_users= |produced= |number_built=3 |variants= }}
The '''CAMS 51''' was a transport flying boat built in France in the mid-1920s. Designed as a private venture by Chantiers Aéro-Maritimes de la Seine (CAMS), it was a conventional biplane with two radial engines mounted in a tractor-pusher installation in the interplane gap. One example (the '''51C''') was sold to Aéropostale, which used it for tests in preparation for transatlantic services. CAMS also built a militarised version as the '''51R3''' in the hopes of interesting the French Navy in it as a reconnaissance aircraft, but no order was forthcoming. A final aircraft was built as a record-breaking machine originally designated '''51-3 R''' that broke the world payload-to-altitude record on 18 August 1927 by lifting 2,000 kg to 4,684 m (15,368 ft). This aircraft was later used as a pathfinder for French airmail routes to South America.
==Operators== ;{{FRA}} *Aéropostale
==Specifications (51C) == thumb|CAMS 51 R.3 3-view drawing from L'Air May 15,1928 {{Aircraft specs |prime units? = met |crew=two |capacity=four passengers |length m=13.78 |length ft=45 |length in=2 |span m=20.40 |span ft=66 |span in=11 |height m=5.00 |height ft=16 |height in=5 |wing area sqm=115.0 |wing area sqft=1,237 |empty weight kg=3,150 |empty weight lb=6,945 |gross weight kg=5,150 |gross weight lb=11,354 |eng1 number=2 |eng1 name=Gnome et Rhône 9Aa (licence-built Bristol Jupiter) |eng1 kw=283 |eng1 hp=380 |max speed kmh=200 |max speed mph=125 |range km=1,00 |range miles=620 |ceiling m=4,600 |ceiling ft=15,100 }}
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==References== {{commons category|CAMS 51}} * {{cite book |last= Taylor |first= Michael J. H. |title=Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation |year=1989 |publisher=Studio Editions |location=London |pages=226 }} * [http://www.aviafrance.com/7942.htm aviafrance.com]
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