Saro A.33

A.33
Role Flying boat
National origin United Kingdom
Manufacturer Saunders-Roe Limited
First flight 14 October 1938
Status Destroyed
Number built 1


The Saro A.33 was a British prototype flying boat built by Saunders-Roe Limited in response to a British Air Ministry Specification R.2/33 and in competition with the Short Sunderland.

Design and development

The A.33 was a four-engined flying-boat with a parasol monospar wing, the wing was supported by two angled N-struts which connected the wing to hull-mounted sponsons. The hull-mounted sponsons were used rather than wing tip floats and were also used as fuel tanks. A Saro Cloud was modified with a monospar wing and sponsons to test the design concepts. The A.33 serial number K4773 first flew on 14 October 1938. Unfortunately, the A33 prototype was written off after structural failure sustained during high speed taxi trials on 25 October 1938 and development was abandoned.[1] A production contract for eleven aircraft was cancelled.

Specifications

Data from British Flying Boats [2]

General characteristics

Performance

Armament

See also

Aircraft of comparable role, configuration and era
Related lists

References

Notes
  1. Flight International - 29 July 1989. Flightglobal.com Retrieved: 15 February 2009
  2. London 2003, pp.262-263.
Bibliography

External links

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