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1956
1956 - 1803.PDF
FLIGHT, 967 21 December 1956 (Extreme left) Short sea- plane No. 136 (200 h.p. Salmson) photographed after the collapse of the undercarriage. (Left) A Westland-built Short 166, without tor- pedo crutches. (Right) A famous "Flight" photograph of the original Short 184 in its original form, with single acting ailerons on the upper mainplanes only. (Below) Short Seaplane No. 184 aboard H.M.S. "Ben-my-Chree" at the Dardanelles in 1915. r extensive submarine patrols. In this work they operated fromAliki Bay. One of the Ark Royal's Short 166s was placed on board the monitor Roberts in September 1915, and spotted forthe ship's guns against batteries on the Asiatic coast opposite the Rabbit Islands. Another Short was lent to the monitor Raglanin October and, operating in the Gulf of Xeros, spotted not only for Raglan but for the cruiser Theseus also. The Short 166 must have been regarded as reasonably success-ful, for a batch of 20 (numbered 9751-9770) were ordered from the Westland Aircraft works in 1916. The Westland-builtmachines had no provision for carrying a torpedo, but could be armed with three 112-lb bombs. At least one of the WestlandShort 166s went to the Aegean: No. 9758 was reported to be with "A" Sqn, R.N.A.S., at Thasos on February 6, 1917. Some were used at stations in the United Kingdom as patrol aircraft,among them No. 9770, which was at Calshot in the summer of 1917. The Short 166 was followed by a seaplane of roughly similardimensions which appeared in two different versions. One had the 135 h.p. Salmson engine and was known as the Short 830;the other had the 150 h.p. Sunbeam Nubian and was designated Short 827. The Short 830 has inevitably been confused withboth the Short 166 and the earlier machine (No. 135) which had the single-row Salmson. Undoubtedly the Short 830 was developed from the earliertypes, but it differed from them in several details. The single- acting ailerons of the Short 830 were inversely tapered, but hada straight trailing edge; they were longer than those of the Short 166, and differed from the ailerons of the Short 135/136,which were in two parts and had compound taper. The exten- sions of the upper mainplanes, like those of the Short 166, hadcable and king-post bracing; it will be recalled that the 135/136 had lift struts. The interplane and centre-section struts of theShort 830 were of plain steel tubing and had no fairings; the rear centre-section struts sloped forward slightly, whereas those ofthe 166 and 135/136 were perpendicular. Straight cross-bars connected the floats, for the Short 830 was not intended to be atorpedo-carrier. The Short 827 was identical in all respects to the 830, but theSunbeam vee-eight engine gave its nose a totally different appear- ance. The wings of both versions could be folded, and the usualslinging gear was fitted above the centre section. Both the 827 and 830 had a large radiator mounted above and behind theengine. The first twelve machines of the new type, numbered 819-830,were ordered in 1914, and the first deliveries were made before the end of that year: No. 829 was reported to be at the Isle ofGrain in mid-December. Of these machines, it was intended to fit 819-821 and 828-830 with the 135 h.p. Salmson, while 822-827were to have the Sunbeam engine. However, No. 827 itself was at one time fitted with the Salmson, despite the fact that its serialnumber was used to designate the Sunbeam-powered version of the design. (Upper left) The Short 830 No. 1335 (Lower left) Short 827— one of the machines of the type which were used in East Africa. (Right) Production Short 184, with 225 h.p. Sun- beam engine and arched cross-bars to accommo- date torpedo.
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