The Short Singapore is a British four engine biplane flying boat built by Short Brothers and flown by the Royal Air Force during the 1930s for long range maritime reconnaissance. An early example famously carried out the Far East Flight, a long survey expedition that demonstrated the type's endurance over open ocean. It was one of the last large biplane flying boats in RAF service before Short's later monoplane designs replaced the type.
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SignificanceThe Royal Air Force's main long-range maritime patrol flying boat of the 1930s, later used against the Japanese by the Royal New Zealand Air Force 1 In the Other Atlases
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1. Short Singapore, Wikipedia
Design and development section, sentence on the Singapore I maiden flight
Its maiden flight was made from Rochester on 17 August 1926, piloted by Short's Chief Test Pilot John Lankester Parker.
Lead section, third sentence
The latter became the Royal Air Force's main long-range maritime patrol flying boat of the 1930s and saw service against the Japanese with the Royal New Zealand Air Force during the Second World War.
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