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|name =Short S.38▼
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▲| name = Short S.38
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|type image = CoastalRAF patrol,Short trainerS.38.jpg
| caption = A [[Norman Thompson Flight Company]]-built aircraft with modified landing gear, delivered in 1916
|national origin = [[United Kingdom]]▼
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|manufacturer = [[Short Brothers]]▼
| type = Coastal patrol, trainer
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▲| national origin = [[United Kingdom]]
|first flight = 30 August 1912
▲| manufacturer = [[Short Brothers]]
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The Short S.38 was an early British aircraft built by [[Short Brothers]].
 
==Design and development==
The '''Short S.38''' was originally a [[Short S.27]] with the manufacturer's number S.38. After an accident when hoisting this aircraft aboard ''[[{{HMS |London (|1899)| HMS London ]]''6}} the remains of the aircraft were returned to Shorts, where the aircraft was rebuilt with extensive modifications, the resulting design becoming known as the '''Short S.38 type'''.
 
The rebuilt S.38 had the same basic layout as the original aircraft, being an unequal-span [[pusher configuration|pusher]] [[biplane]] with a forward-mounted [[Elevator (aeronautics)|elevator]] and an [[empennage]] carried on wire-braced wooden booms behind the wing. It differed in having new wings of increased span, a [[nacelle]] to accommodate the two crew members seated in tandem, and modified tail surfaces, the tailplane being enlarged and twin rudders fitted. The front elevator was mounted on booms, as on the original aircraft.
==Service History==▼
The aircraft was first flown by Lt. [[Charles Rumney Samson|C.R. Samson]] on 30 August 1912.<ref>Barnes 1967, p.61</ref>.▼
 
Production aircraft differed in having the front elevator mounted on an upswept outrigger on the front of the nacelle. Additionally, the outer panels of the upper wing had a swept back leading edge, and were rigged with a slight [[dihedral (aircraft)|dihedral]].
Shorts subsequently built nine production aircraft (c/n S.54-62) and other examples were built by [[Supermarine|Pemberton-Billing Ltd]] and [[White and Thompson]], some remaining in service with the RNAS after the outbreak of [[World War One]], being used for coastal patrol work at [[Great Yarmouth]] and later for training purpoes at [[RNAS Eastchurch]].<ref>Thetford 1982 p.436</ref>
 
▲==Service Historyhistory==
▲The aircraft was first flown by Lt. [[Charles Rumney Samson|C.R. Samson]] on 30 August 1912.<ref>Barnes 1967, p.61</ref>.
 
Shorts subsequently built nine production aircraft (c/n S.54-62),<ref>Barnes 1967 pp. 60–61.</ref> with some remaining in use with the RNAS after the outbreak of [[World War I]], being used for coastal patrol work at [[RAF Narborough|RNAS Great Yarmouth]], and later for training purposes at [[RNAS Eastchurch]].<ref>Thetford 1982 p.436</ref> In 1915, the RNAS, pleased with their Short pushers, wanted to place orders for further S.38-type aircraft for use as basic trainers. As Short Brothers was busy building later types, orders were instead placed with subcontractors, twelve aircraft being built by [[Supermarine|Pemberton-Billing Ltd]] and 24 S.38s by [[White and Thompson]], with deliveries continuing until 1916 and the type remaining in service until 1917.<ref name="Bruce Brit p471">Bruce 1957, p. 471.</ref><ref name="Goodall p71-2">Goodall 1995, pp. 71–72.</ref>
 
==Accidents and incidents==
The type had two fatal accidents:
*12 September 1915 – [[United Kingdom military aircraft serials|Serial number]] ''65'' was destroyed in a midair collision with a Caudron G.III at Eastchurch, pilots of both aircraft killed.<ref>Sturtivant and Page 1992, p. 31</ref>
*10 January 1916 – Serial number ''3148'' crashed while low-flying near Eastbourne, two crew killed.<ref name="Times41060">{{Cite newspaper The Times
|title= Two Airmen Killed Near Eastbourne |department=News in Brief |date=11 January 1916 |page=9 |issue=41060}}</ref><ref>Sturtivant and Page 1992, p. 87</ref>
 
==Specifications==
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==Notes==
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==References==
{{commons category|Short S.38}}
*Barnes, C.H. ''Shorts Aircraft Since 1900''. London: Putnam, 1967. ▼
*ThetfordBarnes, OwenC.H. ''British NavalShorts Aircraft Since 19121900''. London: Putnam, 19821967. ISBN 0 370 3002 1
▲*BarnesBruce, CJ.HM. ''ShortsBritish AircraftAeroplanes Since 19001914–18''. London: Putnam, 19671957.
 
*Goodall, Michael H. ''The Norman Thompson File''. Tunbridge Wells, UK: Air Britain (Historians), 1995. {{ISBN|0-85130-233-5}}.
 
* Ray Sturtivant and Gordon Page ''Royal Navy Aircraft Serials and Units 1911–1919'' [[Air-Britain]], 1992. {{ISBN|0-85130-191-6}}
*Thetford, Owen ''British Naval Aircraft Since 1912''. London: Putnam, 1982. {{ISBN|0-370-30021-1}}
 
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