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A Short Sunderland GR Mark V of No. 205 Squadron RAF Detachment, moored off Direction Island, Cocos Islands, about to be refuelled from a petrol tanker embarked on board a Tank Landing Craft Airframe repairs were either effected from the inside or delayed until the aircraft was in a sheltered mooring or beached.
The Short S.16 Scion and Scion II were 1930s British two-engine, cantilever monoplanes built by Short Brothers and (under licence) by Pobjoy Airmotors and Aircraft Ltd. in Rochester, Kent between 1933 and 1937. Altogether 22 Scion/Scion II aircraft were built and they provided useful service to operators working from small airstrips/water ...
Short S.16 Scion/Scion II (1933) Short S.18 Knuckleduster (1933) Short L.17 Scylla (1934) Short S.19 Singapore III (1934) Short S.20 Mercury (1937 Short Mayo Composite) Short S.21 Maia (1937 Short Mayo Composite) Short S.22 Scion Senior (1935) Short S.23 Empire Flying Boat (1936) Short S.25 Sunderland (1937) Short S.25 Sandringham (a post-war ...
The Scion Senior was developed as an enlarged version of the Scion light transport for nine passengers. Unfortunately, the aircraft failed to win orders from internal airline operators, who had already adopted the De Havilland Dragon and Dragon Rapide; instead it proved attractive as a seaplane for survey and river transport purposes overseas, and the first order came from the Irrawaddy ...
The Short Solent is a passenger flying boat that was produced by Short Brothers in the late 1940s. It was developed from the Short Seaford, itself a development of the Short Sunderland military flying boat design. The first Solent flew in 1946. New Solents were used by BOAC and TEAL, production ending in 1949.
A Sunderland Mk III parked up at Hobsonville, December 1944. One Sunderland, NZ4103, was converted for civilian operations in January 1946 and soon afterwards, two of the others were used for training of Tasman Empire Airways Limited (TEAL) flight crew, preparing them for the airline's newly acquired Short Sandringham flying boats ...
Thirty production aircraft were ordered, but the first of these flew in April 1945, well after the introduction of the Sunderland Mark V, and too late to see combat in Europe. The prototypes were powered by Hercules XVII engines of 1,680 hp (1,253 kW), but production aircraft used 1,720 hp (1,283 kW) Hercules XIX engines.
Short Scion Senior; Short Scylla; ... Short Solent; Short Stirling; Short Sunderland; Siemens-Schuckert Forssman; Sikorsky Ilya Muromets; Sikorsky Russky Vityaz ...