Sunday, October 3, 2010

Short Calcutta

Imperial Airways City of Khartoum
(picture probably taken in Egypt, before Dec. 31, 1935)

Library of Congress, Matson Collection

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6 comments:

  1. Bruce Partington-PlansOctober 3, 2010 at 7:43 AM

    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!

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  2. Pablo J. ÁlvarezOctober 3, 2010 at 12:54 PM

    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.

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  3. -Warren ZoellOctober 3, 2010 at 2:56 PM

    In my books this is the mother of all flying boats http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Saro_Princess_G-ALUN_Farnborough_1953.jpg

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  4. Bruce Partington-PlansOctober 4, 2010 at 2:33 AM

    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

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  5. Lord KOctober 4, 2010 at 3:37 AM

    To Warren:
    But of course!

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  6. -Warren ZoellOctober 4, 2010 at 11:32 AM

    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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