I stand by my remarks about "Corsairville" on this forum. Naff.
Best Flying Boat read I`ve come across is The Sky Beyond - Sir Gordon Taylor ISBN 0-553-23949-X
It would be interesting to know what Kermit Weeks intends to do with the ex Edward Hulton Sunderland. I know of 1 active UK F/E (though not on boats) who has a Sunderland Type Rating.
I hope FVs idea of recording comprehensively the lore of the boats comes to something.My personal solution to the loss of the skills would be a complete ban on cheap fights, silver service for those able to fly, wicker chairs, replace all jets with pistons, make GPS illegal and mass travel to be the preseve of ships (they`re much more civilised anyway). Sails or preferably Galleys.
Edited to say yeah very nice pictures Mr Boat
GH
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