- Short Crusader
Infobox Aircraft
name = Crusader
caption =
type = Racing seaplane
national origin = UK
manufacturer =Short Brothers
designer = W A Bristow
first flight = 4 May 1927
introduction =
retired =
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primary user =Royal Air Force , High Speed Flight
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produced =
number built = 1
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variants with their own articles =The Short Crusader was a British racing
seaplane of the 1920s built byShort Brothers .Powered by a
Bristol Mercury engine, it was designed under Colonel W.A. Bristow; the detail design work and construction being carried out by Shorts at Rochester.It was used as a backup and a training aircraft for the RAF High Speed Flight in their bid to win the 1927
Schneider Trophy . It crashed before competing, as a result of the incorrect reassembly of its controls after the trip to Italy.Operators
;UK
*Royal Air Force
**High Speed Flight RAF ee also
Aircontent
similar aircraft =
*Supermarine S.5
*Macchi M.52
lists=
*List of aircraft of the RAF
see also=References
*http://www.airracinghistory.freeola.com/aircraft/Short%20Crusader.htm accessed 23rd April 2008
*http://www.aviastar.org/air/england/short_crusader.php accessed 23rd April 2008
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