Re: Shorts S.25 Sunderland / Sandringham : Kiwi Aircraft Images Update

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From: Graeme Butler
Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2001 09:23

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Lucky Lucky you.

I would have loved to do that flight.  best I managed was a Bristol
Freighter to Chatham Islands, landing on what seemed to be a peat swamp.

I love old aircraft.

Cheers
"Allen" <gemuser@yahoo.com.au> wrote in message
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> [SNIP]
> > > Hi,
> > >        over the past few years I've had a number of emails about the
> > > flying boats - which is one of the reasons I was happy to be able to
post
> > > pictures of VH-BRC at long last.  Most of the comments about the boats
> > > seem to be of a favourable nature, which is odd given the comfort
level.
> > > Is it nostalgia, or did people find an affinity with this mode of
travel
> >
> > I remember it as being quite comfortable - plenty of room.   Also the
noise
> > level downstairs wasn't remarkable, there was nothing in the way of
> > turbulence and nothing to look at except water so nothing to interrupt
the
> > card games :-)
> >
> > Perhaps more similar to train travel than other flights!
>
> Did it in 1972 and have to agree with RT, was quite comfortable. It
> was noisy, but not noticably more so than the DC4 to Norfolk Is. Also
> the whole ambience was totally diffrent, at least to Lord Howe.
> The whole world looks diffrent on a very late summer morning at 2:00
> am in the park down by Sydney Harbour at Rose Bay when the culmination
> of a long held dream is about to happen. It felt like no other flight
> I have ever taken.
>
> The dawn arrival at Lord howe was also some thing very special, and
> the whole thing was so long ago (last millieum, as my kids remind me)
> it may be an artifical rosey memory, but as I'm not likley to fly a
> flying boat again I'll keep it thanks!
>
>
> Allen

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