Savoia-Marchetti SM.82
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| Savoia-Marchetti S.M.82 | |
|---|---|
| Type | Heavy bomber/transport |
| Manufacturer | Savoia-Marchetti |
| Maiden flight | 1939 |
| Retired | >1960 |
| Status | out of service |
| Primary users | Italian Luftwaffe |
| Produced | 1939-1943 |
| Number built | 400± |
The Savoia-Marchetti SM.82 Canguru was an Italian bomber and transport aircraft of World War II. It was a cantilever, mid-wing monoplane trimotor with a retractable, tailwheel undercarriage.
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[edit] Development
The SM.82 was developed from the earlier SM.75 Marsupiale civil transport as a heavy bomber and transport aircraft. The prototype first flew in 1939.
[edit] Operational history
It its primary role, the SM.82 proved underpowered. As a result, it was mainly used in its secondary role as a transport, in which it proved highly successful. It was equipped with special equipment to ease loading and the cabin was capacious enough to hold a dismantled CR.42 fighter. In the trooping role, it was fitted with forty folding seats but it often carried many more.
Around 400 were manufactured, entering service in 1941. A number were operated as transports by the Luftwaffe. After the armistice of 1943, the type continued in service with both fascist and co-belligerent forces.
After the war, about thirty continued in service with the air force until the early 1960s.
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[edit] Operators
Germany
Italy
Italy (Italian Social Republic)
Italy (post-war)
[edit] Specifications (SM.82)
Data from [1]
General characteristics
- Capacity: (troop transport) 40 troops
- Length: 22.9 m (75 ft 1.5in)
- Wingspan: 29.68 m (97 ft 4.5 in)
- Height: 6.0 m (19 ft 8.25 in)
- Wing area: 118.6 m² (1,276.64 ft²)
- Empty weight: 10,550 kg (23,259 lb)
- Loaded weight: kg (lb)
- Useful load: kg (kg)
- Max takeoff weight: 18,020 kg (39,727 lb)
Performance
- Never exceed speed: km/h (knots, mph)
- Maximum speed: 370 km/h (knots, 230 mph)
- Cruise speed: 300 km/h (knots, 186 mph)
- Stall speed: km/h (knots, mph)
- Range: 3,000 km (nm, 1,864 mi)
- Service ceiling: 6,000 m (19,685 ft)
- Rate of climb: m/s (ft/min)
- Wing loading: kg/m² (lb/ft²)
Armament
(bomber) 1x12.7-mm (0.50-in) machine gun, 4x7.7-mm (0.303-in) machine gun, 4,000-kg (8,818-lb) bombload
[edit] References
- ^ Mondey, David. Axis Aircraft of World War II.
[edit] External links
U.S. Intelligence Summary of Italian SM-82
[edit] Related content
Related development
- Savoia-Marchetti SM.75 Marsupiale
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