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72-003
Short 827 floatplane |
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Short
827 / 830 floatplane designed in early summer of 1914 was slightly
smaller than previous Short 166. It was the first floatplane from Short
company built for RNAS in larger numbers by Short and the satellite
companies like Fairey Aviation, Sunbeam Motor Car, Parnall & Sons
and Brush Electrical Engineering. They built more airplanes than the
mother company itself.
Total number of airplanes is close to 28 of Type 830 and 108 of Type
827.
From the beginning of the service to the Armistice airplanes flew in all
theaters of operations. They provided overseas patrols from Calshot and
Great Yarmouth and soldiered their way over East Africa and Mesopotamia
where few of them ended up converted to land planes.
In Belgian AF four Short 827s, on the loan from the British Admiralty,
were used in the East African campaign.
Engine: Sunbeam Nubian, water-cooled V8, 150hp (112 kW)
Armament: None. Sometimes fitted with under-fuselage bomb carrier for 2
x 65 lbs bombs, others had a single, upward-firing Lewis machine gun on
the pilot's cocpit.
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Sizes and weights:
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Total
Length :
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35.3
ft
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10.74
m
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Greatest
height :
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13.6
ft
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4.11
m
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Wingspan
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53.11
ft
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16.43
m
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Wing
area :
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506
sqft
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47.01
qm
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Max
take off weight :
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3400
lbs
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1542.0
kg
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Weight
empty :
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2700
lbs
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1225.0
kg
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Performance data:
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Max.
speed :
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61
mph
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100
km/h
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Endurance
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3
1/2 h
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