This is excellent reading you should write a book.
For all my time in aviation I shall always regret that I wasn't around during the flying boat era surely one of the best and most interesting.
I look forward to the next instalment.
PS If your interested there is a Sandrindham built in 1943 as a Sunderland and converted in 1947 in the Southampton hall of aviation.. .They also allow visits inside so to those of us who missed this era can get a small taste of what its like.