Originally Posted by
Wander00
OK, so where did the Catalina get such phenomenal endurance - eg Ted Hawkins' 15 mins short of 25 hours Sullom Coe to Spitsbergen and back. Don't think the Sunderland could have done that
During the war, Catalinas did a regular run between Ceylon and Oz which was over 24 hours each way.
I remember before I started working at Farnborough, one of the items on the display programme one year was a Shack Mk3 which would take off at the end of one day's display to go out on patrol and land at the beginning of the next day's display.
[Er do you mean Sullom Voe in the Shetlands?]