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SAML Aircraft |
S.A.M.L. were the "Societá Anonima Meccanica Lombarda di Monza" and these machines were made in Italy thanks to a license agreement from Aviatik in Austria, being the first planes made in that country whose design depended on the scientific testing of the airframe characteristics and independient from the empiric knowledge. The italians enginners introduced many improvements to already the reliable original design, making several different versions of this workhorse.
SAML trainer, this plane had a 100 hp Fiat six cylinders inline engine, upper wing span: 11m ; lower wing span: 10,7 m., with a gap of 1,9 m.; total lenght: 8,2 m., propeller diameter: 2,6 m.
SAML light bomber, doesn't differ too much from the preceding type, just that it was equipped with an engine the twice as powerful as the trainer and a sturdier structure to carry heavier loads.Wings had a straight trailing edge.
A german Aviatik, that differs from the italian specimens in a few characteristics: It has a 170 hp Mercedes engine, with a different exhaust and smaller radiator; no lower wing diedhral; the wings weren't slanted and the observer in the front seat fired two machine guns, one at the each fuselage side firing outside the propeller arc and mounted over rails on the cockpit sides. Upper wing span: 12,5 m.; lower: 10,8 m., total lenght 7,15 m.
SAML cockpit layout, a very schematic drawing of the pilot's office on a SAML machine.
