Short Type 827
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The Short Type 827 was a 1910s British two-seat reconnaissance floatplane. It was also known as the Short Admiralty Type 827.
Design and development
The Short Type 827 was a two-bay biplane with unswept unequal-span wings, a slightly smaller development of the Short Type 166. It had a box-section fuselage mounted on the lower wing. It had twin floats under the forward fuselage, plus small floats fitted at the wingtips and tail. It was powered by a nose-mounted 155 hp (116 kW) Sunbeam Nubian engine, with a two-bladed tractor propeller. The crew of two sat in open cockpits in tandem.
The aircraft was built by Short Brothers (36 aircraft,[1]) and also produced by different contractors around the United Kingdom, i.e. Brush Electrical (20), Parnall (20), Fairey (12) and Sunbeam (20).[2]
The Short Type 830 was a variant, powered by a 135 hp (101 kW) Salmson water-cooled radial engine.
Variants
- Type 827
- Production aircraft with a Sunbeam Nubian engine, 108 built.
- Type 830
- Variant powered by a 135 hp (100 kW) Salmson[3] 18 built.[1]
- S.301
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Operators
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Specifications (Type 827)
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External links
- Short 827 – British Aircraft Directory
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