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	Short Sunderland MR5 airplane pictures & aircraft photos - RAF Museums
		Seven hundred and forty-nine Sunderlands were built, and they served throughout the war.
		The Sunderland finally retired from RAF service in 1959 when the last aircraft were scrapped at RAF Seletar, Singapore.
		The Sunderland was produced as a military development of the 'C'-Class Empire flying-boat operated by Imperial Airways.
	www.rafmuseum.org.uk /short-sunderland-mr5.htm (214 words)

	Short Sunderland - Definition, explanation
		The Sunderland, S.25, was a flying boat patrol bomber, developed for the Royal Air Force by Short Brothers, based on their successful S.23 Empire flying boats, the flagship of Imperial Airways.
		On 3 April 1940, a Sunderland operating off Norway was attacked by six German Junkers Ju 88 fighters, and managed to shoot one down, damage another enough to send it off to a forced landing, and drive off the rest.
		A total of 75 Sunderland Mark Is were built, produced at Shorts factories at Rochester, England and Belfast, Northern Ireland, as well as 15 of the 75 built by Blackburn Aircraft at Dumbarton.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/s/sh/short_sunderland.php (3127 words)

	The Short Sunderland Flying Boat
		The design he produced, the Short "S.23", was a clean and elegant aircraft, with a wingspan of 35 meters (114 feet), a length of 27 meters (88 feet), an empty weight of 10.9 tonnes (24,000 pounds), and a loaded weight of 18.4 tonnes (40,500 pounds).
		Of course, the Sunderland was not a luxury liner like the Empire boats, but it had a number of niceties useful for keeping its crew of seven comfortable during long and exhausting ocean patrols and operations from remote locations, such as six bunks and a galley with a stove.
		While Sunderlands could suppress flak to an extent by hosing down the U-boat with their nose-turret guns, the U-boats had the edge by far in range and hitting power, although many Sunderlands were field fitted with four fixed 7.7 millimeter machine guns to improve their ability to hit back.
	www.vectorsite.net /avsund.html (4854 words)

	Short Sunderland flying boats
		The Short Sunderland was a four-engine, long-range patrol-bomber flying boat used by the Royal Air Force during the Korean War.
		The Sunderland was the standard Coastal Command flying boat throughout World War Two, and 749 were built.
		The Sunderland was armed with ten 0.303-inch and two 0.50-inch machine-guns, and it could carry nearly 5,000 lbs.
	www.korean-war.com /KWAircraft/British/short_sunderland_flying_boats.html (112 words)

	Short Sunderland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A total of 75 Sunderland Mark Is were built, 60 at Shorts' factories at Rochester, England and Belfast, Northern Ireland, and 15 by Blackburn Aircraft at Dumbarton.
		In earlier Sunderlands the hull "step" that allowed a flying boat to "unstick" from the surface of the sea was an abrupt step but in the Mk III it was a curve upwards from the forward-hull line.
		The Sunderland Mark III proved to be one of the RAF Coastal Command's major weapons against the U-boats, along with the Consolidated PBY Catalina.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Short_Sunderland (3482 words)

	Short Brothers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shorts was the first true aviation company in the world, and was a manufacturer of flying boats during the 1920's and 30's and throughout the Second World War.
		The Short Sunderland, widely operated by the Allied powers during World War II Shorts then started design work on one of their most famous designs, the Short Calcutta, based on the Singapore layout but larger and more powerful.
		In the 1970s Shorts entered the feederliner market with their Shorts 330, a stretched modification of the Skyvan, called the C-23 Sherpa in USAF service, and another stretch resulted in the more streamlined Shorts 360, in which a more conventional central fin superseded the older H-profiled twin fins.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Short_Brothers (1684 words)

	BBC - WW2 People's War - Derrick & Sunderland T9040
		Built in the summer of 1940 at Rochester, Kent, the Mk.1 Sunderland T9040 became famous as much for her sturdiness as for the seamanship of the Officers and crew of the Royal Navy corvette Auricular that went to her aid.
		The Sunderland’s forward gun turret could be partially retracted into the hull, making way for a member of the crew whenever she took up or dropped her moorings, now the two bollards normally used for fastening the mooring line was to be used to fasten the towrope.
		The Sunderland ended her days with 4 Operational Training Unit at Alness (or Invergordon), Scotland, when an engine caught fire whilst it was underway on the water on July 2, 1942 and T9040 was destroyed.
	www.bbc.co.uk /ww2peopleswar/stories/61/a5900861.shtml (2148 words)

	The Short Sunderland Flying Boat
		The design he produced, the Short "S.23", was a clean and elegant aircraft, with a wingspan of 35 meters (114 feet), a length of 27 meters (88 feet), an empty weight of 10.9 tonnes (24,000 pounds), and a loaded weight of 18.4 tonnes (40,500 pounds).
		Of course, the Sunderland was not a luxury liner like the Empire boats, but it had a number of niceties useful for keeping its crew of seven in comfortable during long and exhausting ocean patrols and operations from remote locations, such as six bunks and a galley with a stove.
		While Sunderlands could suppress flak to an extent by hosing down the U-boat with their nose-turret guns, the U-boats had the edge by far in range and hitting power, although many Sunderlands were field fitted with four fixed 7.7 millimeter machine guns to improve their ability to hit back.
	www.faqs.org /docs/air/avsund.html (4756 words)

	Australians at War
		The Sunderland was a maritime patrol aircraft developed from Short's Empire flying boat, built as a passenger airliner in the 1930s.
		Belying its somewhat unwieldy appearance, the Sunderland was heavily armed and able to give good account of itself when attacked, which led to German aircrew nicknaming it "the flying porcupine".
		Sunderlands also served in the Mediterranean, South-East Asian, and Pacific theatres, and as well as their maritime patrol role they were employed as long-range transport aircraft.
	www.awm.gov.au /units/subject_649.asp (296 words)

	Fantasy of Flight's Short Sunderland
		The first Sunderland flew in 1937 and was the first British flying boat to have power-operated gun turrets.
		The Sunderland was flown directly to the 1993 Oshkosh Fly-In in Wisconsin and was left there for another year while the seaplane ramp was being constructed at Fantasy of Flight.
		In 1996, the Sunderland was flown to Sarasota, where it participated in the Olympic Torch relay to Atlanta by flying the Torch from Sarasota to Miami on the 4
	www.fantasyofflight.com /aircraftpages/sunderland.htm (1195 words)

	Aircraft and Scifi - 06001 Short Sunderland III
		The Short Sunderland was one of the finest flying-boats ever built and it served with Royal Air Force Coastal Command for 21 years.
		A development of the Short Empire flying-boats, the Sunderland was designed to a 1933 Air Ministry specification for a long-range general reconnaissance and anti-submarine patrol flying-boat to replace the biplanes then in service.
		On one occasion a single Sunderland was attacked by eight JU 88s and shot down three of them, damaged a fourth and drove off the remainder.
	www.marionvillemodels.com /aircraft-and-helicopter/06001-Short-Sunderland-III/product.aspx (443 words)

	Short Sunderland print (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Sunderland first flew on October 16, 1937, and became one of the most powerful and widely used patrol bombers during World War II, terror of the German U-boat fleet.
		The business opportunity was too great to pass up despite the risk, and so Oswald Short, head of the company, began a crash program to come up with a design for a flying boat far beyond anything they had ever built.
		In the Sunderland the ordnance was stored inside the fuselage, and was winched out on racks under the wings through doors on each side of the fuselage above the water line.
	www.tfacc.co.uk /qp/sunderland.htm (1035 words)

	Short S.25 Sunderland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Sunderland снизился до предельно малой высоты, после чего, искусно маневрируя, уничтожил два из атакующих самолетов огнем из оборонительных установок, а третий поджег, заставив выйти из боя.
		Sunderland активно привлекались и к минированию с воздуха прибрежной акватории.
		Sunderland Mk I - 230 Sq Sunderland Mk III - 461 Sq Sunderland Mk III - 230 Sq C.H.Barnes.
	www.airwar.ru /enc/sww2/sunderld.html (1173 words)

	Untitled Document
		In the early years of the war, the shortage of Sunderlands was augmented by the transfer of Empire boats from British Airways to military duties.
		In 1943 as the situation eased, the procedure was reversed with a batch of Sunderlands being demilitarised for civilian use by the airline.
		As such, the Sunderland is a full hull model and there are two separate decks to be inserted into the structure, with steps in the deck towards the aft of the aircraft.
	www.marcle.co.uk /sunderland.html (1284 words)

	All Wood Wings: Short Sunderland Flying Boat - Mark III, RAAF
		The Short Sunderland first flew in 1937, and was upgraded from the original S-23 up to the Mark V. The RAF received its first Sunderland Mark I in June 1938.
		Sunderlands also proved themselves in the Mediterranean theater where they performed valiantly in performing evacuations during the German seizure of Crete.
		It was a Sunderland that did the crucial reconnaissance mission of the Italian fleet at anchor in Taranto before the famous Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm's torpedo attack in November 1940.
	www.allwoodwings.com /3-WWI+WWII/SunderlandFlyingBoat-MasterSeries.htm (550 words)

	uboat.net - Fighting the U-boats - Aircraft - Short Sunderland
		The Sunderland had a deep hull, and the wings were set high on the fuselage, to keep the engines and propellers away from the water spray.
		The Sunderland was a pure flying boat, and if it had to be brought on shore special beaching wheels had to be fitted.
		The fuselage of the Sunderland was roomy enough to give the crew of ten or more men some comfort on their long patrol flights, which could last up to 13 hours.
	uboat.net /allies/aircraft/sunderland.htm (1375 words)

	Short Sunderland Flying Boat model airplane
		The first operational squadron was fully equipped with Sunderlands by December, 1938.
		All Britain-based Sunderland operations ended in early 1957, but in the Far East the airplane remained in service until 1959.
		The Short Sunderland Mk V used four 1,200-hp Pratt and Whitney R-1830-90B Twin Wasp radial piston engines, giving the airplane a maximum speed of 213 mph at 5,000 feet, service ceiling of 17,900 feet, and a range of 2,690 miles with 1,668-lb.
	www.worldaircorps.com /airplanes/am269.htm (239 words)

	WW2 Warbirds: the Short Sunderland - Frans Bonné
		The Sunderland inherited the basic configuration and structure of the S.23 Empire, and was therefore a clean cantilever high-wing monoplane of all metal construction with a semi-monocoque hull and stressed-skin flying surfaces.
		The flying boat was based on a two-step hull of good aerodynamic cleanliness, and this carried the cantilever flying surfaces, which consisted of a conventional tail unit with a low-set horizontal surface and a single vertical surface, and the slightly dihedraled wing.
		Short Sunderland Mk II This version was the successor of the Sunderland Mk I, and flew for the first time in August 1941.
	www.xs4all.nl /~fbonne/warbirds/ww2htmls/shorsunder.html (1877 words)

	Short Sunderland by Bryan "Tuck" Tucker (Airfix + White Ensign Models 1/72)
		The Short Sunderland was a workhorse of the RAF Coastal Command.
		Somewhat unsuited to the task in both armament and open sea performance, the Sunderland nevertheless achieved legendary status.
		Airfix’s 1/72 Sunderland kit first appeared in the 1960’s, which I think was the vintage of my sample.
	hsfeatures.com /features04/sunderlandbt_1.htm (1233 words)

	Short S.25 Sunderland - Great Britain Military Airplanes of World War II
		The Sunderland was a flying boat, developed for general reconnaissance.
		The first operational squadron was fully equipped with Sunderlands by December, 1938.
		Although described as "depth charges", its bombs were set to explode at a depth of 25 feet to 30 feet, effective enough against surfaced submarines.
	www.einsteins-emporium.com /technology/aviation/1940-1945/aeg80.htm (215 words)

	Short Sunderland
		The "Short Sunderland" is one of the most famous Flying Boats in the world and played such a vital part in the Battle of the Atlantic.
		In october 1934 the construction of the Sunderland "S2S" started and after a intensive choice of arnement the in the beginning planned 37mm canons in the retractable bow turret were changed by a double Vickers 8mm machineguns.
		The Sunderland made its maiden flight in october 1937 and later the 950 HP engines were changed in 1010 HP Bristol Pegasus engines and given into service to the Coastal Command in 1938 as a MK I. In june 14th 1946 the production of the last Sunderland (MK V) was ended.
	home.versatel.nl /jan.hermkens/index_bestanden/Page354.htm (2297 words)

	STAN STOKES AVIATION ART - War in the Atlantic (Short Sunderland)
		The RAF was also involved, and the Short Sunderland flying boat played an important role in stemming the tide.
		The Short Brothers acquired one of the first licenses to built Wright biplanes, and eventually began building their own designs, including a number of dirigibles and torpedo planes during WW I. After the war they developed the first British all metal aircraft, the Silver Streak.
		The Short Sunderland was developed in the 1930s for the British Air Ministry as a long-range, all purpose flying boat.
	www.stanstokesart.com /ststavartwar.html (602 words)

	Sunderland
		By the end of the production in 1946 a total of 749 were built, The roles the Short Sunderland played, mainly were in Maritime and anti Submarine duties, especially in the battle of the Atlantic, The Sunderland accounted for 58 U-Boats sunk or badly damaged.
		The Sunderland was also used in other theatres of the war and in the Mediterranean helped in the evacuation of troops from Crete and Greece, as well as helping in the evacuation of troops in Burma.
		RAAF in the UK in January 1940 flying Sunderlands from Pembroke Dock and went on to serve until 1942 flying operations in the Atlantic and Mediterranean from bases in Pembroke Dock, Oban, Plymouth, Gibraltar and Alexandria (Egypt).
	www.aviationartprints.com /sunderland.htm (3413 words)

	Short Singapore Information
		The Short S. 19 Singapore was a multi-engined biplane flying boat from the interwar period.
		Short Singapore II A developed version with 4 engines, mounted in tractor/pusher pairs, the single example of which was first flown 1930.
		Replacement of the Singapore with the Short Sunderland was well underway by the outbreak of World War II, however 19 survivors saw limited service in secondary theatres, mainly in a training role.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Short_Singapore (489 words)

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		Alison Barratt, a lecturer in Illustration and Design at Sunderland, was chosen ahead of a competitive field to land the prestigious contract.
		The University of Sunderland has been ranked in the top 20 of UK universities for its personal development of students in the National Student Satisfaction (NSS) survey.
		A graduate and a former member of staff at the University of Sunderland have produced the soundtrack for the university’s new TV advert.
	www.sunderland.ac.uk /caffairs/septhm.htm (1043 words)

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