This documentary traces the history of the Short Sunderland Flying Boat, from its introduction to service in the RAF in 1938 it was to become one of the longest serving careers of any front-line ...

As hundreds of thousands watched the Sunderland airshow at the weekend from terra firma, Duncan Leatherdale experienced proceedings thousands of feet up aboard a Second World War flying boat.

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“The flying boats used by Aquila are descendants of the famous Sunderland, which proved itself so successfully during the war. Two types are in use, the Hythe equipped to carry 31 ...

Flying boats are fixed-winged aircraft with a hull that allows them to operate on water, unlike floatplanes. The Dornier Do X, Short Sunderland, Boeing Model 314 Clipper, Empire Flying Boat ...

Flying boats opened up travel destinations around ... the California Clipper Boeing 314 was a majestic sight. Clyde Sunderland Photograph Collection, Library, University of California Berkeley ...

THUS IT STARTED. Britain came in July 5, loading great Sunderland flying boats, to be set down on the Havel River where it widens into a lake in the British Sector. Daily tonnage figures started ...

The children stayed in the temporary accommodation just vacated by workers at the Short Brothers factory, which built the Sunderland flying boats during World War Two. Lake District Holocaust ...

The two events are linked as the children occupied the temporary accommodation just vacated by workers at the Short Brothers factory which built the Sunderland flying boats during the Second World ...

Flying boats opened up travel destinations around the world—then they went to war Dave Kindy August 26, 2024 A Sikorsky S-43 banks near Galveston, Texas, in 1993. Nicknamed the “baby clipper ...