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1944
1944 - 0923.PDF
MAY 4TH, 1944 479 fug Attitudes w SUNDERLAND (Four 1,010 h.p. Pegasus XXII's) Short Sunderland Reconnaissance Bomber. WHEN Coastal Command badly needed flying boats during the pre-war R.A.F. expansion programme, the Short " C " class Empire flying boat lent itself admirably to military conversion and the result was the Sunderland. The latest version to which reference may be made, the Sunderland 111. differs only in a few details from the Sunderland I, including the addition of a power-operated dorsal gun-turret. Powered by four 1,010 h.p. Bristol Pegasus XXII air-cooled radial engines, the Sunderland has a top speed of just over 200 m.p.h., and a maximum range of well over 2,000 miles. Wings and tailplane taper symmetrically to small tips and the single fin and rudder is tall. The hull is deep and slab- sided and fixed wing floats are fitted. Dimensions: Span it2ft. 9in., length 85ft. 4m., height 32ft. loiii., wing area 1,687 sq. ft. ^ DESIGNED specifically as a reconnaissance flying boat in 1935, the Consolidated Catalina is notable for its enormous range of some 4,000 miles or patrols of more than 20 hours' duration. A tricycle amphibious version, the Catalina III PBY-5A, is also in service. Power is provided by two 1,200 h.p. Pratt and Whitney Twin Wasps and top speed is 190 m.p.h. The strut-braced pedestal wing has a wide, fiat, rectangular centre-section and the engines are mounted close together above the shallow hull. The outer panels of the wings taper slightly, the retractable stabilising floats forming square tips. The cantilever tailplane. tapered on its leading edge, is set half-way up the large single fin and rudder. Large gun-blisters are situated amidships, and there are other guns in the nose *nd beneath the tail. Dimensions: Span 104ft., length 02ft. 2in., height 18ft. Cin., wing area 1,400 sq. ft. Consolidated Catalina PBY Patrol Bomber. 2_u^
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