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153 photos and 2 illustrations tagged short, from 9 members of Flickr Commons.

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• aviation
• aircraft
• shortbrothers
• airplane
• shirleyjshort
• sjshort
• shirleyshort
• aviator
• sdasm
• aeronautics
• airmailpilot
• airlines
• airliners
• prattwhitney
• theshed
• aviators
• flyingboat
• quastler
• copyrightbelongstoiequastler
• shortstirling
• s25
• airmail
• bomber
• queensland

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• SDASM Archives 137 photos & illustrations
• State Library of Queensland 6 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 5 photos & illustrations
• Smithsonian Institution 2 photos & illustrations
• Public Record Office of Northern Ireland 1 photo / illustration
• SMU Libraries Digital Collections 1 photo / illustration
• Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons 1 photo / illustration
• State Library of New South Wales 1 photo / illustration
• British Library 1 photo / illustration

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15_002634 Short Stirling

from SDASM Archives

• Ed Dempsey said:

  Range: about 2,000 miles. Max. speed: about 300 mph. Wing span: 99 ft. Length: 87 ft., 3in. Height: 22 ft., 3 in. Gross weight: about 70,000 lbs. Bomb load: 16,000 lbs. Three gun turrets, self-sealing fuel tanks, and heavily armored flight deck. Source: Aircraft Spotter's Handbook, by Ens.L.C. Guthman. Published 1943 by Natl. Aeronautics Council, Inc. NYC.

Lt. S.J. Short, Lt. O. Locklear, Lt. Milton Elliott (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• 1 older comment, and then…
• jamica1 said:

  Ormer Leslie Locklear, Milton "Skeets" Elliott and Shirley J. Short. Locklear (who died with Elliott in a crash during the making of a motion picture for Fox after the war) is reputed to have been the inspiration for the character of Waldo Pepper in the Robert Redford film.

• pbhome said:

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ormer_Locklear

• B-59 said:

  Shirley J. Short (1895-1931) www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=137007724

• B-59 said:

  Milton "Skeets" Elliott (1894-1920) www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=43287145

• Jon (LOC P&P) said:

  Thanks jamica1, we'll add their full names to the catalog record.

This little girl like many others in this state is so small she has to stand on a box to reach her machine ... Location: Loudon, Tennessee (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• jp.coops said:

  The past eh.