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Short No. 3
Role	Experimental aircraft
National origin	United Kingdom
Manufacturer	Short Brothers
Designer	Horace Short
Introduction	1910
Number built	1

The Short No. 3 was an early British aircraft built by Short Brothers for Charles Rolls.

Design and development

The aircraft was very similar to that of Short Biplane No. 2, being a biplane with a forward elevator and rear-mounted tailplane, but it was considerably smaller and lighter.

Unlike the No. 2 Biplane, it was intended to take off without the assistance of a launching rail and catapult,

the landing skids were incorporated into a considerably more substantial structure, each forming the lower member of a trussed girder structure resembling a sleigh, the upturned front end serving to support the biplane front elevators, behind which the rudder was mounted. A single fixed fin was mounted behind the wings on a pair of booms. Lateral control was not effected by wing-warping, but by "balancing planes", each consisting of a pair of low aspect ratio surfaces mounted at the front and rear ends of a strut which was pivoted from the mid-point of struts connecting the wingtips. Powered by a 35 hp (26 kW) Green engine, driving single pusher propeller

Specifications

Data from Barnes 1967, p.50

General characteristics

• Crew: 1
• Length: 31 ft 0 in (9.45 m)
• Wingspan: 35 ft 2 in (10.72 m)
• Wing area: 282 sq ft (26.2 m²)
• Empty weight: 296 lb (134 kg)
• Gross weight: 860 lb (390 kg)
• Powerplant: 1 × Green in-line 4-cylinder water-cooled, 35 hp (26 kW)
• Propellers: 2-bladed, 7 ft 6 in (2.29 m) diameter

Performance

• Maximum speed: 45 mph (72 km/h, 39 kn)

References

• Barnes, C.H. Shorts Aircraft Since 1900. London: Putnam, 1967