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Bookmark or Share- Short Empire - WikipediaThe Short Empire was a medium-range four-engined monoplane flying boat, designed and developed by Short Brothers during the 1930s to meet the requirements of the growing commercial airline sector, with a particular emphasis upon its usefulness upon the core routes that served the United Kingdom.
- Short Brothers - WikipediaShort Brothers plc, usually referred to as Shorts or Short, is an aerospace company based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Shorts was founded in 1908 in London, and was the first company in the world to make production aeroplanes. [1] It was particularly notable for its flying boat designs manufactured into the 1950s.
- Short Brothers Aviation Pioneers | Aviation Heritage Pioneers | UKThe Short Brothers, Horace, Eustace and Oswald were true aviation pioneers and made a highly significant contributions to UK and later to world-wide aviation.
- Short Brothers…the forgotten trailblazers - britairliners.orgThe Short No.1 Biplane, the first aeroplane designed by the brothers in 1909, crashed on its first take-off. Photo: Public domain. In 1897 two brothers Eustace and Oswald Short, both living in Sussex, took a ride in a coal gas filled balloon. This ride set the scene for their entry into the aviation business.
- How the crisis at Boeing is threatening a historic Belfast factoryFounded in 1908 in England, Shorts laid claim to becoming the world’s first aircraft manufacturer the following year when it landed an order from American aviation pioneers the Wright brothers.
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