The Short S.14 Sarafand was a British six-engined biplane flying boat built by Short Brothers in 1932 and planned as a general reconnaissance aircraft for military service. Oswald Short first proposed it in 1928 as an enlarged Singapore II with transatlantic range, and Arthur Gouge specified corrugated steel spars for its equal-span wings, with the six engines in tractor and pusher pairs. Air Ministry specification R.6/28 defined the project, which the Ministry and Short Brothers funded jointly. When built it was the largest aeroplane in the United Kingdom. Only one was built, and after experimental flying at the Marine Aircraft Experimental Establishment at Felixstowe it was scrapped there in 1936.
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a British biplane flying boat built by Short Brothers
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When it was built in 1932 it was the largest aeroplane in the United Kingdom.
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The Sarafand was scrapped there in 1936.
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