Supermarine Seamew

distinguish2|the 1940 Curtiss SO3C Seamew or 1953 Short Seamew

Infobox Aircraft
name = Supermarine Seamew
type = Amphibian
manufacturer = Supermarine



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first flight = 9 January 1928
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primary user = RAF
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number built = 2
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variants with their own articles = The Supermarine Seamew was a British twin engined amphibian, built by the Supermarine company, intended as a small, shipborne aircraft.

Design and development

The Seamew featured a wooden hull and two bay biplane wings with mainplanes utilizing a metal composite construction with fabric covering and braced tail unit with twin fins and rudders. Amphibian equipment included a retractable main undercarriage with fixed tailskid. The crew of three had a single pilot in the nose cockpit, a forward gunner behind the pilot but forward of the lower wing and rear gunner aft of the lower wing. The Seamew prototype "N212" made its maiden flight on 9 January 1928.

Operational history

Only two Seamew examples were built as the later Supermarine Walrus was considered more viable. The fictional "Biggles" character in the W.E. Johns' adventure series flew a Supermarine Seamew.

Operators

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*Royal Air Force

pecifications (Seamew)

aircraft specifications

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ref=Supermarine Aircraft since 1914 Andrews, C.N. and Morgan, E.B. "Supermarine Aircraft since 1914, Second edition". London: Putnam, 1987. ISBN 0-85177-800-3.]

crew=3 (pilot and two gunners)
capacity=
payload main=
payload alt=
length main= 36 ft 5⅜ in
length alt= 11.12 m
span main=45 ft 11½ in
span alt= 14.00 m
span sweep=
height main= 15 ft 1 in
height alt= 4.60 m
area main= 610 ft²
area alt= 56.7 m²
airfoil=Goettingen 387
empty weight main= 4,675 lb
empty weight alt= 2,120 kg
loaded weight main= 5,800 lb
loaded weight alt= 2,631 kg
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engine (prop)=Armstrong Siddeley Lynx IV
type of prop=7-cylinder radial
number of props=2
power main= 238 hp
power alt=178 kW
power original=

max speed main= 153 km/h
max speed alt= 83 knots, 95 mph
max speed more = at 2,000 ft
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climb rate main= 523 ft/min
climb rate alt= 2.7 m/s
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*Endurance: 3½ hoursFact|date=August 2007
armament=
*2x .303 Lewis machine guns
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References

External links

* [http://www.karaya.ceti.pl/eng/seamew.html 72-008 Supermarine Seamew]