The Short S.45 Seaford was a 1940s flying boat designed as a long range maritime patrol bomber for RAF Coastal Command, to meet Air Ministry specification R.8/42 for service in the Pacific. It was developed from the Sunderland and first ordered as the Sunderland Mark IV, with a three foot fuselage stretch, a redesigned planing bottom, the Mark III wing with thicker skinning and Bristol Hercules engines. The prototype first flew from the River Medway at Rochester on 30 August 1944, and the extra power caused stability problems that led to a taller fin and a larger tailplane. Thirty production aircraft were ordered but only six were completed, and the programme was cancelled after operational trials with No. 201 Squadron.
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The Short S.45 Seaford was a 1940s flying boat
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1. Aviastar.org Virtual Aircraft Museum: Short S.45 Seaford
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The first of two prototypes, powered by four 1253kW Bristol Hercules XVII engines, was flown on 30 August 1944
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a more powerful, more heavily armed flying boat than the Short Sunderland
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but the programme was cancelled
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