Short Scion Senior - Fantastic Four-Engine Floatplane

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  • Опубліковано 24 гру 2024

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  • @hobbyfarmer62
    @hobbyfarmer62 5 місяців тому +2

    I love aircraft of this time period they are such beautiful designs

  • @leerogers6423
    @leerogers6423 6 місяців тому +5

    Four Pobjoys singing together , I'd like to have heard that.

  • @maryhines322
    @maryhines322 6 місяців тому +2

    We don't see Pobjoy engines in the US, but It seems like it would be a good engine, lightweight and powerful.

    • @FlyingForFunTrecanair
      @FlyingForFunTrecanair  5 місяців тому +2

      The Pobjoy sold in small numbers in the US pre war, is very rare these days. It was quite a good design but production was finished by WW2.

  • @BassFiddleify
    @BassFiddleify 6 місяців тому +2

    And again, what interesting vid about an for me unknown airplane, thx and all the best 🛩️👍🍀

  • @brianshersby8979
    @brianshersby8979 6 місяців тому +3

    When I was a child in Gillingham, I remember a Short Sunderland being moored on the Medway near Rochester Bridge. It was there for quite a while, possibly years - we could see it from the train on the way to London. Late 1940s, possibly early '50s.

    • @FlyingForFunTrecanair
      @FlyingForFunTrecanair  6 місяців тому +1

      Short S.26 flying boat 'Golden Hind' was moored on the Medway from 1947 to 1954. In 1954 it was towed to the Isle of Sheppey but broke loose and ran aground; badly damaged, it was scrapped.

  • @Volksplane1
    @Volksplane1 6 місяців тому +2

    Hate to add this my old Pal David Hall started his WW2 duties on a Sterling. They lost so many to engine failures they all hated it and breathed a sigh of relief when the Lancaster turned up. Love the fact these pre war aeroplanes were at the far flung places of the old Empire. Fascinating and feeds imagination

  • @jeffboatright
    @jeffboatright 6 місяців тому +2

    Another fun and educational video. Thanks!
    BTW, I’ve been onboard a Sunderland on Lake Winnebago. Pictures do not do it justice. Wonderful experience.

    • @FlyingForFunTrecanair
      @FlyingForFunTrecanair  6 місяців тому +1

      I've been on that Sunderland too, at Calshot and in Florida. A wonderful thing.

  • @ivanconnolly7332
    @ivanconnolly7332 6 місяців тому +3

    Esmonde was a boarder at Clongowes Jesuit College, co Meath , in the Republic, as was Dermot O'Leary honcho of Ryanair, James Joyce perhaps the most famous former student .

  • @thewatcher5271
    @thewatcher5271 6 місяців тому +2

    Good Video. I Love Aviation History. Is That The Smallest Four Engine Plane Ever Built? Thank You.

    • @FlyingForFunTrecanair
      @FlyingForFunTrecanair  6 місяців тому +1

      I believe it was the smallest four engine aeroplane ever built as a production aircraft. I've seen a Lazair ultralight fitted with four small 2 stroke engines but that's not really comparable?!

  • @pfield39
    @pfield39 6 місяців тому +2

    I wonder if any of the manufacturers of the period ever imagined that some of their products would still be flying ninety years in the future, aircraft in those days being somewhat ephemeral. Lovely little video profile as usual Nick, thanks.

    • @FlyingForFunTrecanair
      @FlyingForFunTrecanair  6 місяців тому +1

      I wonder? The past is so attractive, especially when compared to the future (unless Nigel Farage manages the impossible). Our forefathers had hope, a feeling sadly in short supply.

  • @danhubert-hx4ss
    @danhubert-hx4ss 6 місяців тому +2

    Very interesting. I would appreciate a data sheet on this kind of vids as it`s sometimes hard to hear the narative.

  • @talesfromthehutandhangar
    @talesfromthehutandhangar 6 місяців тому +1

    Great video & what a lovely looking aircraft. I was going to cover this on my channel but I won't now has you have done such an excellent job -Cheers Keith

    • @FlyingForFunTrecanair
      @FlyingForFunTrecanair  6 місяців тому +2

      Thanks, I think the Senior was better proportioned than the original Scion.