Short
Short Brothers of Rochester built several airplanes but they are most famous for their large seaplanes.[1]
Production aircraft from the Great War or shortly thereafter include:
- Short S.38
- Short S.41
- Short Type 74
- Short Folder Seaplane
- Short Type 135
- Short Type 166
- Short Type 184
- Short Type 200 [note 1]
- Short Type 320
- Short North Sea Scout [note 2]
- Short Type 827
- Short Type 830
- Short Seaplane, 1916, 140hp Salmson
- Short Shirl [note 3]
- Short N2B [note 4]
References
- Notes
- ↑ Only the prototype Type 200 was built. It used a 260hp Sunbeam engine and was completed in May 1917.[2]
- ↑ Two Short North Sea Scout, aka Type B, were built for recon and Zeppelin attack. Based on the 320, it added a Davis 2pdr gun.[2]
- ↑ Three prototype Short Shirl torpedo-carriers were completed in 1918, but the type did not enter production.[3]
- ↑ Two prototype N2B seaplanes were tested in spring of 1918, but they lacked performance and the type was cancelled.[2]
- Citations
- Bibliography
- J.M. Bruce. British Aeroplanes 1914-18. Great Britain: Funk & Wagnalls, 1957, 1969. ISBN 0370000382
- Heinz J. Nowarra, Bruce Robertson, and Peter G. Cooksley. Marine Aircraft of the 1914-1918 War. Letchworth, Herts, England: Harleyford Publications Limited, 1966. ISBN 0900435070