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Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

10th Sep 2022, 08:21

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Boeing 314 Overnight to Hawaii

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Posted By chevvron

Definitely not a Mars; even at my age then (7...

Definitely not a Mars; even at my age then (7 years old) I would have noticed; the Princess boats were already cocooned at Calshot in '56.

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

9th Sep 2022, 09:47

Replies: 33

Boeing 314 Overnight to Hawaii

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Posted By chevvron

No definitely a different design of boat to one...

No definitely a different design of boat to one of the Shorts types which, as I said, were all across the other side of the water.
Course I was only 7 years old then (you weren't even born) so...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

9th Sep 2022, 08:48

Replies: 33

Boeing 314 Overnight to Hawaii

Views: 3,101

Posted By chevvron

Well it was a 4 engined boat, it was marked Pan...

Well it was a 4 engined boat, it was marked Pan Am and it was 1956 so what did I see? As I said it was on the side where the liners were moored not on the other side at Hythe.
As for the video clip,...

Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia

8th Sep 2022, 10:47

Replies: 33

Boeing 314 Overnight to Hawaii

Views: 3,101

Posted By chevvron

I saw one in 1956; it was moored next to the...

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...

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