planedriver

As a youngster and out on my uncles boat in Poole Harbour UK, we were invited to go aboard for a look around one, just before it was towed to be scrapped at nearby Lower Hamworthy.

http://www.pooleflyingboats.com/archive/10 A Flying Boat Finale at Poole from 1953.pdf

Spot on Nev. Last service was flown on 10Th September 1974.

As a slight thread drift, I have a huge (6ft long) photo adorning my lounge room wall of Sunderland VH-BRF coming into land on the lagoon at Lord Howe Island back in 1974.

These old aircraft had quite interesting history's, and VH-BRF was no exception if anyone is interested reading about it in the attached link.

https://aussieairliners.org/shortfb/vh-brf/vhbrf.html

I flew on the Carvair quite a lot from Southend to Ostend (Belgium) when we used to make fairly regular weekend trips to Bruges. Not being pressurised, they normally handed out barley-sugar sweets for passengers to suck on, not that they gained much altitude just flying across the English Channel. Noisy buggers, and everything seemed to shake and rattle your brains out.They would have been better off handing out olives to stick in our ears.

There's one sitting at Bankstown currently. Not exactly sure which model it is, i'll check it out.

On 30/10/2020 at 12:41 PM, old man emu said:

Off we go, into the wild blue yonder....

 

This will interest you:

https://www.adriansmodelaeroengines.com/catalog/main.php?cat_id=59

Sure did! Many thanks OME

That was great OME. Strange they never mentioned their range of model engines of which I had many. I used to fly control-line combat with a Frog 500 glow motor that I modified. It used to scream without a muffler, probably to the annoyance of people far far away.

On 27/10/2020 at 5:02 AM, planedriver said:

Thanks for posting that OME, I found it very interesting, as I was a school boy when that was envisaged to be the future way of fast city hopping. Among'st my many other planes, I also put together a 1:72 scale model of it, which from memory was marketed around that time by Airfix, or the Revell kit people.

No i'm getting, have got old and forgetful.  l just realised mine was a Frog kit which was made locally to where I used to live.

Thanks for posting that OME, I found it very interesting, as I was a school boy when that was envisaged to be the future way of fast city hopping. Among'st my many other planes, I also put together a 1:72 scale model of it, which from memory was marketed around that time by Airfix, or the Revell kit people.