Mayo came up with the notion of mounting a small, fast, heavily loaded airplane atop a larger aircraft that would loft it to its cruising altitude, then return to base. Short Brothers was Britain ...

The above aircraft was developed in the 1970s by Short Brothers and was initially designed as an airliner, later to be ...

Formed by Eustace, Oswald and Horace Short, Short Brothers became the first aircraft manufacturing company in the world at the end of the 1900’s. They were given the British rights to build the ...