Sikorsky S-42

The Sikorsky S-42 was the first Hydravion really able to cross the oceans. The transport company air Pan American Airways had made it build in ten specimens by the aeronautical division of the company Vought-Sikorsky of the group United Aircraft Corporation with Stratford (Connecticut). All the ten were destroyed in accidents or finally withdrawn of the service and envoys to breakage. The first plane stole on March 30th 1934. It was also called (in the United States) Flying Clipper or Pan Am Clipper . A named English company'' British Marine Aircraft Ltd. '' 1936 was founded in February to manufacture seaplanes S-42-A under license with the the United Kingdom but the project does not succeed. This company built a factory on the east coast vis-a-vis the peninsula of Hamble with a slope of setting to water in bay of Southampton. When the business went bankrupt, the company was sold with H.P. Folland which it repaptisa Folland Aircraft Limited.

Data sheet of the S-42-A

Crew: four people
Capacity of carrying: to 37 passengers sitted or 14 lengthened in berths
''' Length: ''' 20,73 m
''' Scale: ''' 36,03 m
Height: 5,3 m
wing Surface: 123,5 m ²
Empty weight: 8984 kg
Mass in order of exploitation: 17.273 kg
maximum Mass décollable: …?. kg
Motorization: 4 engines Pratt & Whitney R-1690'' Hornet'' with turbocompressor, of 660 ch (492 kw) each one

Performances

Maximum speed: 188 mph (300 km/h)
Passable distance: 1.930 miles (3088 km)
operational Ceiling: 15.704 ft (4788 m)
Climbing speed: 1.000 ft/min (305 m/min)
Wing load: 140 kg/m ²
Rate power/mass: 0,07 hp/lb (0,11 kW/kg)

See too

Sources

(Translation of in-WP)

Fagan, Dave. “Hamble” '' Aviation in Hampshire the U.K. 1900 to 2000 '' (downloaded the May 20th 2005)

External bond

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