Short Type 827

Infobox Aircraft
name=Short 827 and 830


caption=Short Type 827 with members of the Australian Flying Corps
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national origin=United Kingdom
manufacturer=Short Brothers
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first flight=1914
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primary user=Royal Naval Air Service
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number built=108 (Type 827)
28 (Type 830)
variants with their own articles=The Short Type 827 was a British two-seat reconnaissance floatplane built for the Admiralty by Short Brothers

Design and development

The Type 827 was a slightly smaller development of the earlier Short Type 166 a two-bay biplane with unswept equal span wings. It had a box section fuselage mounted on the lower wing. The 827 had twin floats under the forward fuselage and small floats fitted at the wingtips and tail. Powered by a nose-mounted Sunbeam Nubian engine with a two-bladed tractor propeller. The crew of two sat in open cockpits in tandem.

The aircraft was not only built by Shorts (36 aircraft [Barnes and James, p. 527] ) but also produced by different contractors around the United Kingdom, i.e. Brush Electrical (20), Parnall (20), Fairey (12) and Sunbeam (20). [Barnes and James, p. 541]

A variant powered by 135 hp (101 kW) Salmson water-cooled radial engine was produced and designated the Short Type 830.

Variants

;Type 827:Production aircraft with a Sunbeam Nubian engine, 108 built.;Type 830:Variant powered by a 200 hp (150 kW) Salmson or 140 hp (104 kW) Canton-Unné radial engine, 28 built.

Operators

;UK
*Royal Naval Air Service

pecifications (Type 827)

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crew=2 (pilot, observer)
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length m=10.74
length ft=35
length in=3
span m=16.43
span ft=53
span in=11
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height m=4.11
height ft=13
height in=6
wing area sqm=47.01
wing area sqft=506
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empty weight kg=1,225
empty weight lb=2,700
gross weight kg=1,542
gross weight lb=3,400
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eng1 number=1
eng1 type=Sunbeam Nubian V-engine
eng1 kw= 112
eng1 hp= 150
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max speed kmh=100
max speed mph=62
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endurance h= 3
endurance min= 30
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armament1=1 x .303 Lewis Gun on flexible mount in rear cockpit
armament2=Provision for light bombs on underwing racks
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ee also

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see also=
*Short Folder
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*Short Type 166

similar aircraft=
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*List of aircraft of the Royal Naval Air Service
*List of seaplanes and flying boats

References

;Notes;Bibliography
* cite book
last = Barnes C.H. & James D.N
first =
authorlink =
coauthors =
title =Shorts Aircraft since 1900
publisher =Putnam
year=1989
date =
location =London
pages =560
url =
doi =
id = ISBN 0-85177-819-4
*cite journal |last= Bruce|first=J.M |authorlink= |coauthors=| date =
year= 1956|month= |title= The Short Seaplanes: Historic Military Aircraft No 14: Part II|journal=Flight |volume= |issue= 21 December 1956|pages= pp.965—968|id= |url= http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1956/1956%20-%201804.html|accessdate= |quote=
*cite journal |last= Bruce|first=J.M |authorlink= |coauthors=| date =
year= 1957 |title= The Short Seaplanes: Historic Military Aircraft No 14: Part IV|journal=Flight |volume= |issue= 4 January 1957|pages= pp.23—24|id= |url= http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1957/1957%20-%200023.html |accessdate= |quote=
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*cite book |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title= The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft (Part Work 1982-1985)|year= |publisher= Orbis Publishing|location= |issn=|pages=refend

External links

* [http://www.britishaircraft.co.uk/aircraftpage.php?ID=688 British Aircraft Directory]