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12 photos of the small aviation collection at the Ulster Transport Museum, Cultra, County Down. The most significant exhibit is a Short SC.1, an experimental vertical take off and landing aircaft built in nearby Belfast in 1958.
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andrewstransport > Replica Ferguson monoplane, Ulster Transport Museum, Cultra, Co Down, 17 May 2012 1. Replica of the fifth aeroplane designed and built (in 1911) by Harry Ferguson, inventor of the Ferguson tractor. He had made the first powered flight in Ireland in 1909 in an earlier monoplane he had also designed and built.
andrewstransport > Replica Ferguson monoplane, Ulster Transport Museum, Cultra, Co Down, 17 May 2012 2
andrewstransport > Short Sealand SU-AHY, Ulster Transport Museum, Cultra, Co Down, 17 May 2012. 24 production Sealand amphibians were built 1949 - 1953. This is one of three survivors, and the only one in the UK.
andrewstransport > McCandless autogiro G-ATXX, Ulster Transport Museum, Cultra, Co Down, 17 May 2012.
andrewstransport > Short SD 360 cockpit, Ulster Transport Museum, Cultra, Co Down, 17 May 2012
andrewstransport > Short SD 360 model, Ulster Transport Museum, Cultra, Co Down, 17 May 2012. Shorts built 165 of these 36 seat commuter aircraft from 1981 - 1991. Some were acquired second hand by the US Army and converted to freighters.
andrewstransport > Short SC.1 XG905, Ulster Transport Museum, Cultra, Co Down, 17 May 2012 1. XG905 is one of two SC.1s built by Short's to investigate vertical take off and landing. It first flew in 1958. It had no fewer than five Rolls-Royce RB108 engines. Four provided vertical thrust, and took air through the large grid behind the cockpit. The fifth engine was for normal horizontal flight. The aircraft made many flights, and successfully passed from vertical to horizontal flight at Farnborough in 1960. It crashed in 1963, killing its pilot, but was repaired and flew again. The other SC.1, XG900, is on display in the Science Museum, South Kensington, London.
andrewstransport > Short SC.1 XG905, Ulster Transport Museum, Cultra, Co Down, 17 May 2012 2
andrewstransport > Short SC.1 XG905, Ulster Transport Museum, Cultra, Co Down, 17 May 2012 3
andrewstransport > Short SC.1 XG905, Ulster Transport Museum, Cultra, Co Down, 17 May 2012 4
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Replica Ferguson monoplane, Ulster Transport Museum, Cultra, Co Down, 17 May 2012 1. Replica of the fifth aeroplane designed and built (in 1911) by Harry Ferguson, inventor of the Ferguson tractor. He had made the first powered flight in Ireland in 1909 in an earlier monoplane he had also designed and built.
andrewstransport > Replica Ferguson monoplane, Ulster Transport Museum, Cultra, Co Down, 17 May 2012 1. Replica of the fifth aeroplane designed and built (in 1911) by Harry Ferguson, inventor of the Ferguson tractor. He had made the first powered flight in Ireland in 1909 in an earlier monoplane he had also designed and built.
Replica Ferguson monoplane, Ulster Transport Museum, Cultra, Co Down, 17 May 2012 1. Replica of the fifth aeroplane designed and built (in 1911) by Harry Ferguson, inventor of the Ferguson tractor. He had made the first powered flight in Ireland in 1909 in an earlier monoplane he had also designed and built.
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