Short Admiralty Type 827

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Short Admiralty Type 827
Short Type 827 (8237) at Lee-on-Solent, 1918 Short Type 827 (8237) at Lee-on-Solent, 1918
Type: Reconnaissance aircraft
bomber
Design country:

United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom

Manufacturer:

Short Brothers

First flight:

1914

Number of pieces:

108 (Type 827)
28 (Type 830)

The Short Type 827 was a two-seat reconnaissance - seaplane from Great Britain, which for bombing missions was used.

Design and development

The first machine of the Short Type 827 with the members of the Australian Flying Corps

The Short Type 827 was a biplane with unswept wings of the same span; a slightly smaller version of the Short Type 166. The fuselage had a box profile and was attached to the lower wing. It had two swimmers under the front fuselage and small swimmers on the wingtips and tail. It was propelled by a nose-mounted Sunbeam engine with a two-bladed pull propeller. The two-man crew sat one behind the other in open cockpits.

The aircraft was not only built by Short Brothers (36 aircraft), but also by various contractors in Great Britain: Brush Electrical Machines (20), Parnall (20), Fairey (12) and Sunbeam (20). A total of 108 machines were produced.

After the Sunbeam company had developed a new V-8 high-performance engine with 150 hp (later called Nubian) in 1913, Shorts built the new Type 827 seaplane , derived from the Type 166 . This aircraft could carry bombs under the wings. The first machines were delivered from the end of 1914. After testing, the handover to the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) began in June 1915 . The machines had devices to carry two ≈25 kg (112 lb) bombs each.

Short Type 830

The Short Type 830 was a variant of the Type 827 , in which other engines up to 200 HP (150 kW) were used. 28 pieces were made.

War effort

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United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom

The Type 827 was used from June 1915 and for patrol flights for coastal protection. When Lowestoft was shelled by German warships in April 1916, a Type 827 was among the British machines that attacked German warships from the air.

Three Type 827s were shipped to East Africa to direct the fire of the British naval guns against the cruiser SMS Königsberg , which was blocked in the Rufiji estuary . But they arrived too late and were therefore sent to Mesopotamia, where they attacked Turkish positions from December 1915, for example at Kut al Amara . Two of the machines were equipped with wheels so that they could operate from land.

At the end of 1915, the Belgians received four Type 827 , which they dismantled and brought to Lake Tanganyika . There the Belgians set up a base near Albertville , from which they flew air raids on Kigoma and the surrounding area from June 1916. They attacked the German ship Goetzen on June 10, 1916 . The mission ended after Belgian troops conquered the eastern shore of the lake.

The Type 827 remained in service in Europe until 1918.

Technical specifications

Short
Parameter Data
crew 2
length 10.74 m
span 16.43 m
Wing area 47.01 m²
height 4.11 m
Empty mass 1225 kg
Max. Takeoff mass 1542 kg
drive a water-cooled V8 engine from Sunbeam with 150 PS (110 kW)
Top speed 100 km / h
Range 3:30 h
Armament a movable 7.7 mm Lewis machine gun in the aft observer cockpit, light bomb holders under the wings

literature

Web links

Commons : Short Type 827  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ CH Barnes, DN James: Shorts Aircraft since 1900. P. 527.
  2. ^ CH Barnes, DN James: Shorts Aircraft since 1900. P. 541.
  3. ↑ Aimé Behaeghe First Pilot in Central Africa. In: Cross & Cocade Volume 39, No. 1, 2008 ( tillo.be PDF; 12.9 MB);
    The Times . June 16, 1916, p. 8.
  4. ^ The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Aircraft. 1985, p. 2914 (Part Work 1982-1985).