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• aircraft
• aviation
• airplane
• short
• airliners
• flyingboat
• airlines
• seaplane
• militaryaviation
• imperialairways
• bristol
• floatplane
• shortstirling
• airplanes
• theshed
• bomber
• shorts23
• stirlingbomber
• shortmayocomposite
• libraryofcongress
• shorts23empire
• stirling
• gadhj
• gadhk

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• SDASM Archives 37 photos & illustrations
• The Library of Congress 8 photos & illustrations
• State Library of Queensland 4 photos & illustrations
• State Library of New South Wales 4 photos & illustrations
• National Library of Ireland on The Commons 3 photos & illustrations
• The National Archives UK 2 photos & illustrations
• North East Museums 2 photos & illustrations
• Provincial Archives of Alberta 1 photo / illustration
• Australian National Maritime Museum on The Commons 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.

ZR-2 (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• jdshephe46 said:

  See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R38-class_airship

ZR-2 (blimp) (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• jdshephe46 said:

  First, it's clearly not a blimp (a lighter than air craft whose gas bag derives its shape from gas pressure - not an internal frame), it's a rigid airship or dirigible. This one is correctly identified as the ZR-2, a US Navy craft. She had been built for Britain's Royal Navy as the R-38, but was purchased by the US while still under construction. She first flew on 23 June 1921 and fell apart and crashed on her fourth flight on 24 August 1921. Forty four men - both Americans and Britons - were killed in the crash. See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R38-class_airship