British Specification 14 & 15/38 (Bristol 154, GAL-40, Shorts S.32)

That's a nice bit of digging.
I'd never come across that directory, looks a very interesting and useful site.
 
Some more on the Short S32 from an article by Lipscomb, a senior designer under Gouge
 

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...and a selection for the GAL40
 

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Can't help thinking that Shorts flying boat experience was making too much of a penalty in terms of the internal layout.
Even allowing for Imperial Airway's lavish tastes and the fact that lounges etc. could still be found on American large airliners until 1970 (747), the space required for 12 passengers seems rather excessive. So does the flight deck, there is acres of workspace for the navigator, radio oeprator and engineering and even a rest station/bunk, which seems lavish.
The competing Airspeed and Folland designs seem more like a 'cram-em-in' approach with a respectable passenger capacity and perhaps some chance of operating at an economic level.
 
There's some truth in that. Gouge felt that he had a winning formula from the Empire flying boats and stuck with it as long as he could. His initial design for what became the Stirling was rejected on the grounds that it was too much derived from a flying boat.
Then on the other hand spec. 14/38 for the long-range trans-Atlantic airliner only specified a payload of 7500lbs, a recognition of the range v payload limitations of that era.
 
Hi! Fairey FC.1.

http://aviadejavu.ru/Site/Crafts/Craft21745.htm

https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/unknown-aircraft-that-could-have-been-great.369745/page-8

Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairey_FC1
 

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Short S.32 model and larger three side view drawing.

http://aviadejavu.ru/Site/Arts/Art3408.htm

Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_S.32
 

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GAL.40 larger three side view drawing.
 

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Hi! Bristol 154 larger three side view drawing.
 

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From Flying magazine 1942-9,

I can't is this Model from England,but it is not Fairey FC.1 ?.
 

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Looks like the Fairey FC.1 to me, but without the centre fin, maybe the reason for the wind tunnel tests ?

cheers,
Robin.
 
The FC.1 design continued to be developed through the winter of 1938/39 and by March featured a redesigned fuselage with lengthened nose and twin-fin tail, as in the photos. The mock-up was also of this developed design, which was the aircraft that would have been constructed, yet for some reason it is the initial design that is usually shown in articles and books.
 
From this book.
 

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