| Manufacturer |
Short Brothers |
Société des Avions Marcel Bloch |
| Description |
The Short R.24/31 (or Short S.18 and nicknamed the Knuckleduster) was a British twin-engined, high-wing cantilever gull winged monoplane flying-boat designed and built by Short to Air Ministry specification R.24/31 for a "General Purpose Open Sea Patrol Flying Boat". |
The Sud-Ouest S.O.30 Bretagne was a 1940s French airliner built by Sud-Ouest. |
| First Flight |
1933-11-30 |
1945-02-26 |
| Service End |
1938-01-01 |
|
| Designer |
(Sir) Arthur Gouge |
Société des Avions Marcel Bloch |
| Type |
General purpose flying-boat |
Airliner and military transport |
| Length (m) |
19.2024 |
18.95 |
| Height (m) |
5.7912 |
5.9 |
| Cockpit Crew |
5 |
4 |
| Max Seating |
|
43 |
| Max Speed (km/h) |
241.4016 |
575 |
| Cruise Speed (km/h) |
|
438 |
| Max Ceiling (m) |
4724.4 |
8000 |
| Rate of Climb (m/s) |
4.064 |
6 |
| Armament |
3 x Lewis Guns; underwing bomb racks for:; 2× 500 lb (230 kg) bombs or ; 4× 240 (110 kg) bombs |
|
| Capacity Description |
|
43 passengers |
| National Origin |
United Kingdom |
|
| Number Built |
1 |
45 |
| Powerplant Description |
2 × Rolls-Royce Goshawk VIII steam-cooled V12 engines, 578 kW (775 hp) each |
2 × Pratt & Whitney R-2800-CA18 18-cyl. air-cooled radial piston engines, 1815 kW (2434 hp) each |
| Primary Users |
Short Brothers, Marine Aircraft Experimental Establishment (MAEE), Felixstowe |
Air France, French Air Force |
| Status |
Prototype |
|
| Wikipedia Article (URL) |
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Knuckleduster |
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sud-Ouest_Bretagne |
| Flat Wing Span (m) |
27.432 |
26.9 |
| Flat Wing Area (m²) |
106.5598 |
86.2 |
| Aircraft Engine |
Rolls-Royce Goshawk |
|
| Number of Engines |
2 |
2 |