Originally Posted by
treadigraph
I can see it ok Washoutt...
I'd have been happy flying to Hawaii - or anywhere - in a Stratocruiser or a DC-7... bliss, albeit noisy bliss... Shame the 314 is just a footnote in history now.
I saw one in 1956; it was moored next to the Queen Elizabeth in Southampton Royal Dock ie NOT just across the water at Hythe although there were several Sunderland derivatives moored there too.
What an area for flying boats that was in those days with the Princess boats beached at Calshot too (we were on a boat from Southsea for a tour of the docks)