Saunders-Roe A.37

1939


FLYING BOAT	Virtual Aircraft Museum / United Kingdom / Saunders-Roe

After designing the S.38 four-engined patrol flying-boat to Specification R.5/39, Saro built, as a private venture, a half-scale model as the Saro A.37, often called the Shrimp. The R.5/39 programme did not go ahead, but the Saro A.37 was completed in time to make its first flight in October 1939. Powered by four 63kW Pobjoy Niagara III engines, it was later modified to have a single fin and rudder, and other features representative of the Shetland flying-boat jointly developed by Shorts and Saro. In this guise, it acquired the serial TK580, and was tested from early 1944 until after the war had ended.

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CHOLET, e-mail, 20.08.2010 08:36

Le Shrimp �tait d�class� � Felixstowe en 1949 .
Caract�ristiques g�n�rales
� Equipage: 2
� Longueur: 42 pi 3 � po (12,89 m)
� Envergure : 50 pieds (15,24 m)
� Hauteur: 12 pi 8 � de (3,88 m)
� Surface alaire: 340 pi � (31,6 m�)
� Poids � vide : � 4,362 (1,983 kg)
� Poids charg�: � 5,700 (2.591 kg)
� masse au d�collage maximale : 6,200 lb (2,818 kg)
� Moteur: 4 � Pobjoy Niagara III moteur en �toile , 95 ch (71 kW)
Performance
� Vitesse maximale : 113 noeuds (130 mi /, 209 km / h)
� Taux de mont�e : 635 m / min (3,22 m / s)
� Charge alaire : 16,8 lb / pi � (82 kg / m�)
� Puissance / masse : 0,067 HP / lb (0,11 kW / kg)
� Endurance 3 heures

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