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Post by Peter Lewis on Oct 8, 2009 18:39:53 GMT 12
Grab yourself a coldie, sit back and enjoy this video coverage of the final days of the flying boat operations at Rose Bay, Sydney and Lord Howe Island
The aircraft are of course Sandringham 'Islander' VH-BRF ex-Sunderland NZ4108 (now with Kermit Weeks)and S.25 Tasman 'Beachcomber' VH-BRC ex ZK-AMH ( now at Southampton).
We shall never see their likes again.
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Post by Andy Wright on Oct 8, 2009 20:15:24 GMT 12
Oh, that is brilliant. So majestic.
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Post by Bruce on Oct 8, 2009 21:17:57 GMT 12
Awesome video!
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Post by corsair67 on Oct 10, 2009 21:30:40 GMT 12
Peter, thank you so much for posting this link.  What a fantastic selection of footage: I particularly love the footage of the boat charging down the harbour from 5'15". |
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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 11, 2009 22:06:03 GMT 12
That is a superb film. Just wonderful. Thanks for finding and posting the link.
I'm going to shift this to the main General Board so more people get to see it.
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Post by flyinkiwi on Oct 12, 2009 8:01:53 GMT 12
Fantastic stuff! Enjoyed every second.
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Post by croweater on Oct 13, 2009 12:58:01 GMT 12
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Post by John L on Oct 16, 2009 17:21:09 GMT 12
What superb footage. I have some slides I took in 1970, when I lived in Kirribilli....must find them...
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Jun 8, 2010 20:13:50 GMT 12
I managed to track down the film that footage was taken from. “The Ships That Flew” was produced in 1974 by Screen Australia and was shown in movie theatres before feature films. It has recently been released on DVD and is available from Chevron Publishing. I ordered a copy a week or so ago and it turned up in the mail today. I've already watched it and it is an awesome film. As well as documenting the final days of Ansett's flying-boat operation out of Rose Bay, it includes interviews with people such as P G Taylor, Brian Monkerton and other people associated with various Australian-based flying-boat operations after WWII. It also contains quite a bit of footage of Empire flying boats on the route between Southampton and Australia. Highly recommended if anyone is thinking of obtaining a copy. |
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Jun 9, 2010 13:06:56 GMT 12
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Jun 9, 2010 13:59:59 GMT 12
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jun 9, 2010 14:42:24 GMT 12
Thanks to Craig (Corsair67) who tracked it down too, we watched this film at the last forum meet in Cambridge. It's very good and highly entertaining.
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Jun 9, 2010 15:29:52 GMT 12
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Jun 9, 2010 16:13:11 GMT 12
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Post by furyfb11 on Jun 9, 2010 16:50:10 GMT 12
What a brilliant series of photographs Bruce. Did you take them yourself?
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Jun 9, 2010 17:21:04 GMT 12
What a brilliant series of photographs Bruce. Did you take them yourself? No, they aren't my photographs. I'm not too sure where they came from....they've been sitting on an external hard-drive for yonks (there's literally hundreds of them). I think I may have got them off a workmate, but it was a long time ago and I'm not 100% sure who gave them to me. I had actually forgotten all about them until earlier today when I was looking for something else and came across them, so decided to upload a selection to PhotoBucket and post them into this thread. It would appear Ansett made a habit of having their 'boats washed ashore at Lord Howe Island. Here are some pics of VH-BRF being recovered from the beach....      |
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Post by Peter Lewis on Jun 9, 2010 18:30:28 GMT 12
* Drool *
Providing context - Sandringham VH-BRE was ex ZK-AMD - Capsized at moorings in storm Lord Howe Island 3Jul63 & scuttled; VH-BRC/N158C was ex ZK-AMH - now in the Science Museum; VH-BRF/N185J was ex NZ4108 - now in the USA with Kermit Weeks.
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Jun 10, 2010 0:32:30 GMT 12
WOW....I've been trawling through those photographs and I'm absolutely blown away at what has been sitting underneath my nose for ages with me having no idea how extensive this photo collection is. I think I know who I got them off....one of my workmates from Wellington wanted copies of some images I had, so I gave him the portable hard-drive they were stored on and told him to help himself, then get the hard-drive back to me. This would have been two or three or four years ago (I can't recall exactly when), and when he passed the drive back to me a couple of days later, he told me he had loaded onto the drive a folder full of aviation photos he thought I'd be interested in. I've never really taken a good look at them until earlier today (I'd actually forgotten all about them), but there are almost a half-a-gig of photographs stashed in a heap of subfolders inside folders and more subfolders inside those subfolders. It's like an awesome treasure trove of stuff. It's going to take me weeks to go right through them all, but I've found heaps of flying-boat photographs, although none of TEAL's Solents (yet), but heaps of their Empire and Sandringham 'boats. And quite a few colour photographs of TEAL's DC-6 and Electra airliners (they seem to have mostly been taken at Mascot in Sydney), plus colour photos of Electras in Air NZ titles. I'm like a kid with a new toy. Here's some more photos, this time of Sunderland Mk.IIIs at Lord Howe Island. I think the first one is Trans Oceanic Airways; the other two are Ansett.   
One of Trans Oceanic Airways' Solent Mk.3 'boats at Rose Bay, then another shot of it after it went to South Pacific Air Lines. I understand this Solent still exists somewhere in California.  
Here are some photos of ML761/SH.30C, the first while it was with TEAL, then how it met its demise with Qantas....    |
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Jun 10, 2010 0:37:53 GMT 12
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Post by kiwithrottlejockey on Jun 10, 2010 0:57:21 GMT 12
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