Heritage Explorer slides on glassy water away from Milford Sound towards the open ocean. "The swell's only up to here on a ...

A tourist retracing his late father’s footsteps has discovered a small part of an aircraft on Kerrera, believed to be from a ...

From hunting the Bismarck, to sinking U-boats and prowling the Pacific Ocean. Find out how the flying boats helped win WWII.

Many think of seaplanes as things of the past – relics of a bygone age of Pan Am Clippers and Short Sunderland flying boats that have have slowly disappeared, leaving only a few tiny float ...

Two by two, they’re lined up, each with a story more fascinating than the last. Photo credit: Ray Johnson Take, for example, the Short Sunderland flying boat. This massive seaplane looks like someone ...

A huge four-engined Sunderland flying boat last week approached Buenos Aires ... Dodero bought four of Short Brothers’ Sunderlands. This week the U.S. helped also. It allotted Dodero two surplus ...

Over 12,000 individual names of those involved with the long service of the Short Sunderland flying boat in peacetime and war have already been added. The database - to become part of the Pembroke ...

Aviation researchers are aiming sky high with a unique database tracing the remarkable story of the Short Sunderland flying boat and those involved in its long service, in peacetime and war. The ...

A lumbering Sunderland flying boat on convoy duty ... 83 children and 210 adults were thought lost. The 20-ton flying boat, running short of fuel, signaled her relief plane, which in turn signaled ...

Flying boats opened up travel destinations ... The island realm of Great Britain relied on the Short S.25 Sunderland for its patrol bomber needs and it served with several Commonwealth military ...