Flat Wing Area
106.5598 m²
Maximum Range
1673.718 km
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- Name
- Short Knuckleduster
- Manufacturer
- Short Brothers
- 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".
- First Flight
- 1933-11-30
- Service End
- 1938-01-01
- Designer
- (Sir) Arthur Gouge
- Type
- General purpose flying-boat
- Length (m)
- 19.2024
- Height (m)
- 5.7912
- Cockpit Crew
- 5
- Max Speed (km/h)
- 241.4016
- Max Ceiling (m)
- 4724.4
- Rate of Climb (m/s)
- 4.064
- Armament
- 3 x Lewis Guns; underwing bomb racks for:; 2× 500 lb (230 kg) bombs or ; 4× 240 (110 kg) bombs
- National Origin
- United Kingdom
- Number Built
- 1
- Powerplant Description
- 2 × Rolls-Royce Goshawk VIII steam-cooled V12 engines, 578 kW (775 hp) each
- Primary Users
- Short Brothers, Marine Aircraft Experimental Establishment (MAEE), Felixstowe
- Status
- Prototype
- Wikipedia Article (URL)
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Knuckleduster
- Flat Wing Span (m)
- 27.432
- Flat Wing Area (m²)
- 106.5598
- Aircraft Engine
- Rolls-Royce Goshawk
- Number of Engines
- 2