Imperial Airways City of Khartoum
(picture probably taken in Egypt, before Dec. 31, 1935)
Library of Congress, Matson Collection
Uploaded by A30yoyo @ Flickr
(picture probably taken in Egypt, before Dec. 31, 1935)
Library of Congress, Matson Collection
Uploaded by A30yoyo @ Flickr
6 comments:
I love these old bi-plane flying boats of the '20s and '30s. I've a model of a Supermarine Stranraer and a picture of a Supermarine Walrus at home, but the Short Calcutta/ Singapore and the Supermarine Southampton are great too!
I feel something special about this planes. It was a golden era, with the promise of a future amazing but ...the future is not the same thing it was.
In my books this is the mother of all flying boats http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Saro_Princess_G-ALUN_Farnborough_1953.jpg
Supermarine Walrus - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-2UAXblTUE
Blackburn Perth - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz1MSHglGP4
Short S.17 Kent - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmuNQXst6nI
Vickers Viking - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dsczMnztyA
Sikorsky S-40 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqbTgsE-DuY
Blackburn Iris - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSm0nq9qbKA
and especially for Warren - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV1eUeo27tc & http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhFzket3SM4
To Warren:
But of course!
Thanks-It's too bad they were broken up in the 60's, one would think that they would have at least kept one of them around.They should have sold them to Aquila.
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