Short S.38, S.41

1912

Back to the Virtual Aircraft Museum
  SEAPLANEVirtual Aircraft Museum / United Kingdom / Short  

Short S.38

In 1912 Horace Short received an Admiralty contract to build two tractor biplanes with interchangeable landing gear so that they could be used from either land or water. The larger of the two, the S.41, flew for the first time in April 1912 and was converted into a seaplane. On 3 May, after being ferried to Weymouth for the 1912 Naval Review, it was lowered overboard from the cruiser HMS Hibernia and flown to Portland by Commander C.R. Samson, who had piloted it on its first flight. Three days later, the same pilot flew the S.41 19km out to sea to rendezvous with the Fleet and escorted the flagship into Weymouth Bay. The S.41, which made many more successful flights, was the forerunner of a series of successful tractor-engined seaplanes built by Short.

Specification 
 MODELS.41
 CREW1
 ENGINE1 x 100hp Gnome engine
 WEIGHTS
  Take-off weight680 kg1499 lb
 DIMENSIONS
  Wingspan15.30 m50 ft 2 in
  Length11.90 m39 ft 1 in
 PERFORMANCE
  Max. speed97 km/h60 mph

Comments
Jim Rait, e-mail, 27.07.2009 21:04

The aeroplanes are in fact pushers of the Farman-Sommer style.

reply

Do you have any comments?

Name    E-mail


COMPANY
PROFILE


All the World's Rotorcraft


All rhe World's Rotorcraft AVIATION TOP 100 - www.avitop.com Avitop.com