The Short Empire flying boats started passenger services for
Imperial Airways (later B.O.A.C.) in February 1937 and were pensioned off
around 1947. Until recently I thought that the Short Sunderland Flying boat was
a shorter version of a normal Sunderland Flying boat, then I found out that
Short was the manufacturer’s name. Duh!
The ‘Fast Low Wing monoplane’ appears to be the ill-fated
Armstrong-Whitworth A.W.29. Only one was built and that crashed on landing
during the trials in 1937 and was never repaired because the RAF contract had
gone elsewhere.
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