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The Short Sporting Type Seaplane was a single-engined biplane seaplane which first flew in 1919, Shorts' first post-World War I aircraft.〔Barnes & James 1989, p.159.〕 Originally designed to a Royal Air Force (RAF) specification〔 issued during the war for two training seaplanes, three aircraft were produced as a commercial venture. Only the first was sold, the other two being cannabalised for parts and then scrapped in 1924. This design is often referred to as the Short Shrimp although this name was only applied to the first Sporting Type. ==Design== The Sporting Type was designed to meet RAF specification number RAF XXXII.〔 It was a four-seat, single-engined biplane with twin wooden floats mounted on wire-braced struts below the fuselage. It had two cockpits, the forward cockpit for the pilot and a passenger sitting in tandem, the other for two passengers sitting abreast; the rear cockpit could also function as cargo room, increasing the aircraft's operational flexibility. The fuselage was of semi-monocoque plywood construction with a fabric fairing. The upper and lower wings were of equal span and chord; on the first aircraft (named ''Shrimp'') the lower wing had a slight dihedral, while the upper wing was flat. On the two later aircraft both wings had equal dihedral. All three were fitted with folding wings〔Barnes & James 1989, p.161.〕 (which Shorts had developed and patented in the years 1913 -1915〔Patents secured by Short Brothers including patents nos. 1792/13, 15727/13 and 28610/13, 5290/14, 20537/14 and 9276/15, see Barnes & James, 1989, pp. 92, 110〕). In plan view the twin main floats, like those of the Short N.2B, were square-fronted with a slight increase in beam from front to rear, while the stern tapered to a point like a mitred arch. They had a concave bottom (the edges were protected by metal strips〔''Flight'' Magazine, Olympia report 1920, p.798.〕) and a sharp step at approximately 3/4 length; a tail-float was fitted to the fuselage below the conventional tailplane. Attached to the rear of the tail-float was a taxying rudder, with an additional drop-plate which improved steering on water and which, thanks to the hinged mounting at the forward end, would rise up into its recess in the tail-float on contact with the ground when beaching. Wingtip floats were deemed unnecessary. A detail drawing, which appeared in ''Flight'' Magazine in 1920, shows the empennage and tail-float assembly, including the hinged rudder drop-plate.〔''Flight'' Magazine, Olympia report 1920, p.796.〕 There was also provision for the attachment of beaching wheels: Each float had a watertight tranverse tube to which a main wheel could be fitted and there was a socket for a detachable swivelling tailwheel at the rear of the tail-float, just forward of the taxying rudder. A side-view photograph of the Sporting Type (taken at Olympia in July 1920), showing the port beaching-wheel in place, was published in ''Flight'' Magazine.〔''Flight'' Magazine, Olympia report 1920, p.797.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Short Sporting Type」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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