Thanks all for the super pics and bibliography. I hope to make contact with ex-Sunderland hands in NZ, where the boats served on to the 60s.
Does anyone recall an incident when one of the big Boeings operated, I think by a charter company in the late 40s/early 50s, forced-landed in bad weather in the Atlantic? I seem to remember that she survived long enough for the passengers to be taken off. The Boeings had hull-mounted sponsons, I think, which were presumably stronger than wing-mounted floats.
I would like to put together a collection of flying-boat reminiscenses, perhaps for private circulation. Please email me any contributions or ask for my postal address.
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