Reply With QuoteI remember watching Shackeltons far out to sea while on holiday in Cornwall, saw them dropping some sort of flares.Originally Posted by BrianT
The Saunders Roe company also built Catalinas at Beaumaris on Anglesey during WW11..
Also found this image of a 'Coronado" which I haven't heard of up to now..
http://www.abct.org.uk/airfields/air...der/beaumaris/
I remember watching Shackeltons far out to sea while on holiday in Cornwall, saw them dropping some sort of flares.
Such a lovely looking 'boat and of course did sterling service during the war on convoy protection/U-boat killing.
Cheers,
Neil.
Amazing that we could once build such flying marvels.
I have a small collection of original flying boat photographs - original as in marked on the back as press photos or publicity shots from the manufacturers. I'll have to upload them to another hosting site as they are locked away in photobucket, but here's one of my favourites.
Another one from the collection
I knew inflight refuelling was a British invention, didn't realise it was pre war though. Is that a HP Heyford tanker?
HP Harrow.
Lovely pic.Another one from the collection
My Dad's first job was with Imperial Airways at Croydon Airport working on the carburettors.
Cheers,
Neil.
ahhh seaplanes.... here in Gibraltar they were huge seaplane hangers that were knocked down in the 1960s once the jet engined planes killed the sea plane off for good
and then there's the italian aviator (amongst other things) Italo Balbo who was fond of flying a number of these in tight formation across huge distances:
He led some transatlantic flights. The first was the 1930 flight of twelve Savoia-Marchetti S.55 flying boats from Orbetello Airfield, Italy to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil between 17 December 1930 and 15 January 1931.
From 1 July to 12 August 1933, twenty-four seaplanes flew round-trip from Rome to the Century of Progress in Chicago, Illinois. The flight had eight legs: Orbetello — Amsterdam — Derry — Reykjavķk — Cartwright, Labrador — Shediac — Montreal ending on Lake Michigan near Burnham Park and New York City.
must have been a sight ...
Still in use today as firefighting plane - first saw action with the USNavy 1945-1958 the Hawaii (Martin) Mars:
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The first time I flew between Gib and Tangier was on a GB Airways Vickers Viscount.
Wish it had been a SARO 21!
Cheers,
Neil.
Lovely big windows!
Hikōtei Jidai (飛行艇時代) or The Age of the Flying Boat, was the manga on which Porco Rosso was based.
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Saro also made rhe Skeeter!
Leviathan!
Excellent video, many thanks.
"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action."
'Populism, the last refuge of a Tory scoundrel'.
Another from my little collection, a name you might know
I seem to remember it was based on a British design, wasn't it?
'Against stupidity, the gods themselves struggle in vain' - Schiller.
Based on a Short Rangoon or Calcutta, apparently.
Did that many times, also a school trip to Lourdes - the drone of the 4 RR Turboprops stayed in your head for a few days after...
That particular Vickers Viscount was ex Newzealand from the 1950s and had crash landed and been repaired... then after many faithful years service it lost the nose wheel landing hard at tangiers in a storm or something
Now Air Maroc do the route and its still the shortest intercontinental flight you can do anywhere in the world
Simon, thanks for your Breguet, the supporting telegram (or what ever it is) is a great historical record!
Also, this site has some good info on French seaplanes and amphibians..
http://www.letletlet-warplanes.com/2...nd-amphibians/
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Thanks for that, good info.
The airport was shared between civilian and military aircraft as you know, saw a Nimrod there.
Here's the old girl...
Cheers,
Neil.
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