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A quick-release hook (controlled by the pilots) was provided, which enabled the captain to start, warm up and (when required) run all four engines up to full power for takeoff while the aircraft was still attached to the mooring buoy.
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Maximum comfort was required for passengers and crew: the Kent's passenger cabin was 8 ft 6 in (2.59 m) wide and 14 ft (4.27 m) long. The seating was arranged in four rows of facing pairs, with a centre aisle,
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Special attention was paid to sound levels in the passenger cabin and crew's stations; accordingly the engines were fitted with exhaust collector rings and long tailpipes, to reduce exhaust noise inside the hull.
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Imperial Airways used the Kent aircraft on the Mediterranean stages of its routes to India and beyond, also using them to survey planned routes to South Africa and Australia.
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on the upper and lower wings. Duralumin walkways were provided to allow ready access to the engines for maintenance purposes. The tail unit consisted of braced monoplane
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without the need for refuelling stops in Italian colonial territory due to a political row which had led the Italian Government to ban British aircraft from its ports.
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flying boats. Each had an aircrew of three (two pilots and a radio operator/navigator) and a steward to prepare meals and light refreshments for the passengers.
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of valued passengers) could cook meals in flight. The toilet and washroom were opposite the pantry; the mail and freight compartment was further aft.
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In 1933 Imperial Airways placed an order for two landplanes based on the Kent; known initially as the S.17/L and later as the L.17, these became the
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The cockpit, for two pilots, was fully enclosed (unlike that of the Calcutta's) with a separate Radio Officer's station directly aft of the cockpit.
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In October 1930, Short Brothers started building the first of the three S.17 Kent flying boats (G-ABFA, named
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duralumin fuselage was mounted below the lower wing, with the planing bottom of the hull made of
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and was in service in the Mediterranean in May of that year. The second (G-ABFB, named
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On 22 August 1936 "Scipio", on its way back from India, flipped over and sank in "
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Lieut. Richard Glen Wilson-Dickson and Thomas Alexander Cecil "Whimmie" Forbes.
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Image (on p.25) shows a Short Kent on the Sea of Galilee (in or after 1931)
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137 mph (220 km/h, 119 kn) at 5,000 ft (1,500 m)
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box spars and tubular rib assemblies, with a fabric covering and
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survived to be taken out of service and scrapped in June 1938.
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mounted on vertical struts between the upper and lower planes.
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Information w.r.t. the loss of "Sylvanus" at Brindisi, 1935.
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was essentially an enlarged, four-engined version of the
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Three aircraft were built, each receiving its own name:
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A British four-engined biplane flying boat airliner
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Index


Manufacturer
Short Brothers
Imperial Airways
1931
1938
Short Calcutta
Short Scylla
flying boat
Shorts
Imperial Airways
Short Calcutta
Crete
Alexandria
Egypt
flying boat
Calcutta
Bristol Jupiter
radial engines
duralumin
Frise ailerons
horizontal
vertical stabilizers
Flettner
servo tabs
Short Scylla
anodised
stainless steel
Singapore II
Photograph of the passenger cabin of a Short Kent airliner, showing pullman-style seating and a man sitting in the rearmost row, a map of the Genoa-Alexandria route on the wall.

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