Flying Boat Repairs: An Account of Some Repairs to the Sunderland Carried out by the Short Repair Organization

Abstract

REPAIRING aircraft for Imperial Airways, led, at the beginning of the war, to the setting up of a repair organization with its headquarters at Rochester. All the work carried out was category ‘AC’ (repairable on site by contractors' party), except later when the Windermere factory and Short & Harland, Belfast, started to deal with category ‘B’ (repairable by contractor at the firm). At Windermere work was mainly large modifications or major overhauls. Short & Harland organized a separate repair department which dealt with all types of aircraft in Northern Ireland.

Citation

Reynolds, I.W.G. (1947), "Flying Boat Repairs: An Account of Some Repairs to the Sunderland Carried out by the Short Repair Organization", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 19 No. 2, pp. 63-67. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb031475