Hi,
I am new to the forum and am both building experimental aircraft and scale models. For a new project, a 1/4 scale DH60 Cirrus Moth on floats I am searching for detailed and dimensioned drawings of that type of Short Brothers floats, which was suitable for DH60 aircraft. Can anyone help?
Kind regards
Hans, Switzerland
By: mark_pilkington - 24th June 2024 at 12:08
Short Mussel Floats (as also used on early DH60s’) were 15′ long, and spaced 7’6″ centre to centre
By: wieesso - 17th February 2012 at 11:12
Maybe these two photos allow to determine the dimensions of the Short Brothers’ floats by comparison with the known dimensions of the aircraft, especially the first one…
http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?regsearch=5558&distinct_entry=true
By: wieesso - 13th February 2012 at 20:13
Like Pondscater said http://forum.keypublishing.com/showpost.php?p=1857074&postcount=2 there are only a few detailed descriptions of Short Brothers’ floats – which may explain why your request from Sep 13, 2011 in another forum was left unanswered … 🙁
By: flyernzl - 13th February 2012 at 19:06
. . which were actually second-hand off the NZ Government DH60G Moth ‘995’.
This Moth was dropped while being recovered onboard ship at Apia, Samoa, early in 1930 and thus destroyed.
The floats (and engine) were bought back to Hobsonville (New Zealand) after this incident, repaired, and passed on to Chichester for his trans-Tasman flight.
The repairs to the floats actually used dissimilar metals, which led to galvanic corrosion causing Chichester no end of trouble with the resultant leaks.
By: Propstrike - 13th February 2012 at 13:29
Sir Francis Chichester’s Moth had twin floats.
By: wieesso - 13th February 2012 at 13:17
Welcome to the forum, Hans!
Sorry, don’t have any Short float data (am more into EDO floats)
DH.60 photos show both, two floats and a single float with additional little pontoons under the wings (G-AADV)
Martin
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February 13, 2012 at 11:47 am