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1943
1943 - 0171.PDF
JANUARY ZIST, 1943 heir Characteristics CURTISS SEAGULL Top speed : 190 m.p.h. ONE PIECE CURVED ELEVATOR DIMENSIONS Span Length Height Wing area OF SEAGULL .. 38ft. Oin .. 36ft. 9in .. lift. 3in .. 29Osq.fi NO relation to the Walrus next door, the Curtiss Sea-gull, officially designated the SO3C-2 by the U.S.Navy, is also being built for the Fleet Air Arm, who have modified its name into Seamew—which is also a species of gull. Incidentally, the same machine is also being produced by the Ryan Aeronautical Company, on whose books it is known as the Ryan SOR-i Seagull; Ryans are supplying the U.S. Navy only with this model, the British version being produced only at the Curtiss- Wright plant together with the SO3C-2 for their own Fleet. Both aircraft are identical except for certain items of equipment. Designed for catapult launching from warships, or as a reconnaissance landplane for operation from aircraft carriers, the Seagull (or Seamew) is powered by a 520 h.p. Ranger GV-770-6, 12-cylinder, inverted "V" air-cooled engine which gives it a top speed of 190 m.p.h. at 5,000ft. Its loaded weight is given as 5,729 lb. and its weight empty as 4,284 lb. Duration is about eight hours .at cruising speed. The seaplane version, illustrated here, has a single main float extending well beyond the nose and with a single '' pedestal'' support; fixed stabilising floats are attached by single faired struts near the sharply upturned wing-tips which are perfectly square. The wings, which taper on the trailing-edge only, have very little dihedral apart from that presented by the upturned tips. Another prominent characteristic tor the spotter's guid- ance is the way in which the large single fin is carried forward over the top of the rear cockpit, a portion of it sliding forward with the cockpit cover. The landplane version has f :ed single cantilever legs with spatted wheels, and a fixed tail wheel; either type is equally easy to recognise.
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