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Supermarine Air Yacht
The Supermarine Air Yacht was a British luxury passenger-carrying flying boat designed and built by the Supermarine Aviation Works. A three-engined all-metal monoplane, a single example was built, being destroyed in an accident in 1933.
==Development and design==
The Supermarine Air Yacht was a three-engined luxury flying boat built at Woolston in 1929 for the Hon. Arthur Ernest Guinness for pleasure cruises around the Mediterranean, replacing his Supermarine Solent flying boat. It was based on a 1927 design to meet the requirements of specification R5/27 for a reconnaissance flying boat for the Royal Air Force.〔 Andrews and Morgan 1987, pp.123-124.〕
The resulting design was a three-engined monoplane flying boat with hull-mounted sponsons instead of the wing-mounted floats more common on aircraft of this type. Construction was of all-metal, with the wing was held above the fuselage on struts, with the three Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar radial engines mounted on the leading edge of the wing. The single braced tailplane had three vertical fins and rudders. The crew were accommodated in open cockpits in the nose, with an enclosed cabin for the owner, with its own toilet, bath and bed, a separate cabin for the other five passengers and a galley beneath the wing.〔 Andrews and Morgan 1987, p.124.〕〔
The Air Yacht made its first flight in February 1930 at Hythe, England.〔 Andrews and Morgan 1987, p.125.〕 It proved to be underpowered, with an excessive take-off run, and despite re-engining with three Armstrong Siddeley Panthers, was rejected by Guinness, who purchased a Saro Cloud instead.〔
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