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Great British
Flying-boats
COLLECTORS’ ARCHIVE
From the 1930s to
the end of the ying-boat era
CONTEMPORARY CUTAWAYS AND ARCHIVE IMAGES
£7.95
The promenade deck of an Empire Flying-Boat
showing the series of steps up to the cabins
INTRODUCTION
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T
HE THIRD IN
our
Aeroplane
Collectors’ Archive series is devoted to
British monoplane flying-boats – we intend to cover biplane ‘boats in a
future issue, while the Saro SR.A/1 will also feature in another of this
series. One type included here is not a flying-boat – the seaplane upper
component of the Short-Mayo Composite, but the unit had to be considered
as a whole.
As in previous Collectors’ Archives, only basic details for each type are
given, and we concentrate on providing large and interesting illustrations
and cutaway drawings from the
Aeroplane
and
Flight
archives,
supplementing these where necessary by quality prints from our wider
archive and from other sources. We are grateful to the Solent Sky Museum
Southampton for their assistance with this volume.
CUTAWAY ARTWORK
Much of the artwork was drawn by James (Jimmy) Clark of
The Aeroplane
who started producing cutaways in the mid-1930s, continuing to the early
1960s, initially small and uncomplicated but getting more detailed as aircraft
became more complex. We have also had access to material from
Flight’s
Max
Millar, for which we are grateful to Flight Global, and we are pleased to
include work by other artists including Roy Cross, who produced cutaways for
The Aeroplane,
and also colour illustrations for
Air x.
Production of a cutaway could involve hundreds of hours, artists often
spending a great deal of time in factories sketching the necessary details
and referring to engineering drawings to complete an accurate cutaway.
Often the drawings would needing additional finishing work at home or in
the studio. Their work is worthy of detailed study and we hope readers will
find it of interest.
FLYING-BOATS
The golden age of flying-boats came in the 1930s, faster than ships but
leisurely and certainly more luxurious than today’s high-density budget
airline seating. When war came in 1939, flying-boats proved invaluable in
convoy patrols lasting many hours, and only late in the war were they
superseded by long-range land-based aircraft.
Post-war, airfield expansion for the new four-engined airliners marked
the end of the flying-boat, although a few amphibians appeared for a
time, a typical UK example being the Sealand. But there was no UK market
for the amphibian either, so those built were exported. Today we can only
look back at that golden age with affection and nostalgia, so wallow in
these pages and think what might have been!
Mike Hooks, Editor
The Short-Mayo Composite carried out tests over Southampton Water on July 12, 1938 and the following day passed HMS
Queen Mary
on the way back to moorings
Aeroplane Collectors’ Archive
Great British Flying-Boats
Editor
Mike Hooks •
Editorial Consultant
Phillip Jarrett •
Researcher
John Donaldson •
Advertising
Sue Keily •
Digital Image Manager
Rebecca Gibbs •
Scanning assistant
Michael Hutchings •
Image restoration
Paul Sanderson
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The views expressed are not necessarily those of the Editor or Publisher. ISBN 978-1-907426-29-2
Great British Flying-boats
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INTRODUCTION
SHORT ‘C’ CLASS
The rst Empire Flying-Boats
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10 SHORT ‘G’ CLASS
Final version of the Empires
Flying-boat and seaplane combination
The rst of a series of small amphibians
23 SHORT MAYO COMPOSITE
30 SARO CUTTY SARK
32 SARO CLOUD
Next step up from the Saro Cutty Sark
Unusual metal gull-winged general-purpose
ying-boat
Twin-engined ying-boat which failed to live
up to expectations
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34 SHORT KNUCKLEDUSTER
36 SARO LERWICK
42 SHORT SUNDERLAND
Britain’s best-known wartime ying-boat
Air x artwork painting by Roy Cross
depicting a Short Sunderland defending an
Atlantic convoy
Last British military ying-boat, which existed
only as two prototypes
Fleet reconnaissance amphibian with novel
features, but never put into production
Twin-engined civil amphibian which also
attracted military orders
50 CENTRE PAGES SPREAD
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54 SHORT SHETLAND
61 SUPERMARINE SEAGULL
64 SHORT SEALAND
Contents
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70 SARO PRINCESS
84 SHORT HYTHE
Britain’s biggest – and last – ying-boat
First civil conversions of Sunderlands, for
BOAC
More streamlined Sunderland conversion
The ultimate development of the Sunderland
airframe
A small experimental aircraft built to test
ideas for a new Saro patrol ying-boat
Prototype of unusual retractable-hull
general-purpose ying-boat
Britain’s rst large all-metal monoplane
ying-boat
A luxury aircraft which did not progress
beyond the prototype
A Scion Senior one-o conversion for
experimental use
Competitor to the Sunderland which existed
for only ten days before being lost in an
accident.
88 SHORT SANDRINGHAM
92 SHORT SOLENT
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96 SARO SHRIMP
97 BLACKBURN B 20
97 BLACKBURN SYDNEY
97 SUPERMARINE AIR YACHT
98 SHORT SCION SENIOR
98 SARO A.33
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