Rare footage - 1970's Flying Boat action 

Beautiful. I was lucky enough to fly on both BRF and BRC as a 10 year old kid. This almost brought me to tears.

Flew to Lord Howe island on this very plane in the early seventies, beautiful way to fly , still have the movie i took of the trip, only surpassed by a flight in Germany in a Zeppelin from Friedrichaven.

Flew in one to Lord Howe Island in the Summer of 70/71. Had to return in one too. Damn.

Back in 2019 i was sitting in the captain's seat of this beautiful flying boat in the Solent sky Museum the staff are amazing there it also helped that my cousin is married to Michael Ansett who is the grandson of the founder of this airline 😉

My father used to fly them and the Catalina's for Ansett

I sat in a vacant copilot seat of a Grumman Goose seaplane on a flight from San Juan to the U.S. Virgins in the mid-1970s. It was fun.

Magnificent! What an era it was, I suppose. It’s just a shame that cellphones didn’t exist at the time or the ability to ‘video’ such operations routinely. What a great legacy to have been able to view from all around the world.

They have one of these on display at MOTAT in Auckland. I've always wished I was around to see it fly. Air New Zealand (Tasman Empire Airways Limited) used to fly these on 'The Coral Route' around the Pacific Islands. Very majestic ladies of the sky. Thanks for the video and cheers from NZ.

Lovely find.

Wow, the captain smoking a pipe onboard at

fantastic and nice document thank you for sharing

Alaska has a sizable fleet of regional sea plane service to this day.Ten or twenty passengers though.

Rose Bay is still a registered international airport!

Would’ve loved to been around when these beauties were around

My girlfriend flew to Lord Howe Island from Rose Bay airbase in one of these

Remember them in Rose Bay,well ..

I think the pilots were WW11 Sunderland crew.

This is from an ABC doco called "The Ships That Flew".

I feel sick already I am only at 49 seconds.

What music is it please?