This documentary traces the history of the Short Sunderland Flying Boat, from its introduction to service in the RAF in 1938 it was to become one of the longest serving careers of any front-line ...

In WW2 many downed pilots were lost to the sea although Air Sea Rescue would do everything they could ,some pilots were just not found in time .If equipped the stranded R.A.F pilots would use from ...

"For a time, the flying boat was seen as the way of the future. These aircraft, so strange and foreign to the modern mind, once criss-crossed the world and fulfilled essential military roles. In his ...