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Short Sunderland
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Read on Wikipedia- First flight1937
- Introduction1938
- StatusRetired
- Number built777
Specifications
01
Crew & dimensions
- Crew
- 9–11 (two pilots, radio operator, navigator, engineer, bomb-aimer, three to five gunners)
- Length
- 85 ft 4 in
- Wingspan
- 112 ft 9.5 in
- Height
- 32 ft 10.5 in
02
Performance
- Maximum speed
- 210 mph
- Range
- 1,780 mi
- Service ceiling
- 17,200 ft
03
Powerplant
- Powerplant
- 4 × Bristol Pegasus XVIII 9-cylinder air-cooled radial piston engines (1,065 hp)
04
Armament
- Armament
- Guns: up to 12 × 0.303 in Browning machine guns – two fixed on each side of the nose firing forwards (often removed), two in a Nash & Thompson FN.11 nose turret, four in an FN.4a tail turret (which doubled the ammunition capacity of the earlier FN.13), and two in an optional FN.7 dorsal turret which replaced the flexible guns fired from open dorsal/beam hatches in the Mk.Is., On some aircraft Browning 0.5 in machine guns replaced the fixed forward firing.303s.; Bombs: up to 2000 lb of bombs, mines and depth charges internally, winched out under the wings through hatches in the fuselage sides.
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