Friday 29 September 2017

Amiot 370

The Amiot 370 was a racing aircraft piloted by the minister Pierre Cot that took part in the Istres-Damascus-Paris air race, that it wasn't allowed to register as it wasn't ready at the time.
However, that aircraft beated many world records on 8th February 1938 when it was able to fly at a speed of 437 km/h for 2000km, at 401km/h for 5000km on 8th June and at 301km/h for 10000km on 15th August. It was powered by two Hispano-Suiza 12Yirs/12Yjrs engines delivering each of them 860hp of power.
It was piloted by Rossi-Vigroux and Rossi Emont with J.Calvy, Girodin, Perpère and Y.Maurice as engineers.
It was also this aircraft that took part in the quick flight Marseille-Djibouti on 26th and 27th July 1941 piloted by Gaston Durmon.
It was present at Tolouse when it was liberated but, when Amiot was nationalized, it was scrapped by order of the minister Charles Tillon.










Sources:
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiot_354
2. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiot_354 (translated)

No comments:

Post a Comment