RARE SUPERMARINE WALRUS TO FLY AGAIN 

That is amazing very brave man. Happy New Year. Chris.

Amazing feedback on your fathers service, I have made two other films on my channel about the Walrus, one was a secret mission to rescue General de Gaulle's wife from Brittany in 1940, the Walrus took off from RAF Mountbatten. Chris.

If you visit Solent Sky I seem to remember they have one. Or maybe the Fleet Air Arm museum. Ii can't remember where I saw one all I can remember is that I have been within touching distance of one. Considering my youngest was with me it's also possible that it was IWM Duxford

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I actually know this feeling, I used to take care of a lot of older people as my job. And i also met a lot of people who had somthing to do with the war. Mather of a fact, i was triggered verry young because my own granddad was forced labour, my father was born in 44 and mother in 46, so i have older parents than most of people from my generation. I also learned german , and as a mather of a fact i even spoken to the "enemy" ... what to me where no enemy's. In war u only have losers, war brings out , pain and suffering, loss and dispair. The only one gaining somthing out of it are crooked politician and the so called elite. We dit do brother murder in the past, and look where it braught us now. seeing down the line.

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Many thanks for that insight. Chris.

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It’s a strange one that, I’m British and spent time growing up in the 70’s helping out with odd restorations, I still do a little. It must be in the blood not wishing to see old mechanical marvels dissolve into the ground.

My Dad was a Royal Marine on HMS Resolution, the ship was lying off of the coast of Kenya in 1942 and he had to accompany the Purser, as an armed guard, ashore to collect the wages for the ships company. This involved a flight in the ships aircraft a Walrus, affectionately known as the Shagbat! He said he had never been so frightened when the aircraft was launched off the catapult, as the Fleet Air Arm pilot struggled with the stick to get the aircraft airborne!

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@@GULLPERCHFLYER Fantastic Chris, must get over to Duxford again before i get too old to do it. Would also love to sit in the Lancaster that is being restored over that way. My dad was a WW2 Lanc pilot and the older i get the more I think about all this!

Much interesting naval history there many thanks, do subscribe please. Chris .

Thanks John please check out my channel I have several wartime aircraft featured there. Chris.

Thanks Andre, I too had my models on my ceiling until my sister claimed my room when I was away in the merchant navy, she pulled them all down sadly. Chris.

Me too Andre. I was an industrious builder of Airfix kits when I was a boy. They lived on my shelves, hung from the ceiling, and anywhere else I could put them. I also built an airfield with hangars at the bottom of our garden and they took turns to be stationed there! I remember the Walrus with great fondness.

Me too! Part of the rights of passage for young boys constructing Airfix kits. Seaplanes were always my favourite models. 70 years later I stil make the odd kit but then did I ever grow up!!

@@chrissharp5073 I don't think we men ever grow up!!

Amazing bit of historical information, they were very brave men. Chris.

I think many a time a Walrus had to motor back to harbour. Chris.

I knew a guy who was drafted into the US military during WW2, they had him and all the other draftees seated in an auditorium in Pittsburgh, a guy who was standing down in the front pointed up the center of the seats and then waving his arm in one direction said "Everyone on this side will be going to the Navy and everyone on that side will be going to the Army". He was on the Navy side and not being able to swim raised his hand and informed them of that fact, so the guy told him to go ahead and move over to the Army side, so what'd the Army eventually do with him? Put him in the Amphibious Corps of course. When he told me that story I assured him that their logic hadn't changed any by the time I was in it in the 80's.

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Thanks Everest glad you found it of interest. Chris.

Brilliant news, I did call aircraft restorations and they wouldn't say anything, told me to email in, Spoke to the tower and they said that's typical. !! Chris.

​@@GULLPERCHFLYER Also of note is that according to the CAA G-INFO database, it's insured (presumably for flight) from last August - another good sign!

That would be really exciting - I would bet a tenner you will be there to video her!

might it be the same one, c/n 2S/5591 Built in 1940 by Saunders Roe and delivered to the Royal Navy with the British military serial W2718. She served with 764 and 751 Naval Air Squadrons before transferring to the Royal Air Force and flying with 276 squadron. She was sold off in April 1946 and bought by Somerton Airways at Cowes on the Isle of Wight, but she did not fly again and was broken up sometime around 1947. During the 1950’s the forward fuselage was converted into a touring caravan and survived as such until purchased by David Green (the founder of the Spitfire Society) during 1986. With nowhere to house it, the caravan was kept at the Southampton Hall of Aviation until it was sold to engineer Dick Melton during 1989. He put the project on the British civil register as G-RNLI and had restored the complete fuselage before work stopped in 2002. In 2006 it was sold to Solent Sky (the new name for the Southampton museum) and was kept there until sold to Walrus Aviation in June 2009. The project then moved to Audley End and restoration began again, although at a slower pace. She was sold to a private owner in March 2018 and was immediately moved to Duxford and reregistered as G-WLRS. Restoration is now being carried out by the Aircraft Restoration Company and she is seen while briefly parked in Hangar 2 (North) at Duxford Airfield, Cambridgeshire.

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Thanks Charlie you live in a wonderful location. Happy New Year. Chris.

My father was a WWII veteran In the 1960's he was working at Bankstown Aerodrome west of Sydney with a crane picking up DC3's and dropping them to break them up for scrap At the time he was building a caravan and used a door on it from a DC3 It would've been the flat door to the fight deck/pilot's cabin He also brought home two 24 inch diameter aircraft drop tanks He cut the top out of one of them to make a canoe and the other one we had tied to a rope swing in a gumtree in the backyard

Who would believe this aircraft came from the same stable as the fantastic spitfire!

Wow those aircraft were well used. Chris.

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Wow thanks Richard you have some amazing memories. Happy New Year. Chris.

Nice comment Richard.

Glad you enjoyed it Logan. Happy New Year. Chris.

For everything there is a time to be considered cutting edge and entirely modern. Then comes tomorrow. Suddenly obsolete like an 8 track tape player.

Thanks Kevin, fingers crossed the Duxford Walrus flies. Chris.

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Glad you enjoyed it, let us keep our fingers crossed that it does fly. Chris.

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Many thanks I must pay a visit to the museum. Chris.

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Thanks Robert I must get back to Yeovilton again. Chris.

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Thank you backward looking, you tube does have some gems. Chris.

Amazing so tiny, I have visited HMS Belfast in London and never realised the Walrus connection many thanks. Chris.

IIRC, Belfast had 3 Walrus, but were landed off the cruiser by 1943

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From research please see the following, In 1934 the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) ordered 24 Seagull V’s and they were delivered during 1935-37 and operated by 5 Squadron (later 9 Squadron, located at RAAF base Rathmines, as of 1 January 1939). In accordance with pre-WW II Australian procedures only the RAAF was permitted to operate service aircraft thus aircraft for use in the heavy cruisers HMA Ships Australia and Canberra and the light cruisers HMA Ships Hobart, Perth and Sydney were operated by the RAAF. Thanks for watching Alec please subscribe. Chris.

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Amazing Beverly I had not spotted that, do please subscribe I have two other films on my channel about the Walrus. Chris.

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Wow what great treasure. Chris.

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Many thanks Nick I have read his book In the Nick of Time. Appreciate your memories. Chris.

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Thanks Ron my follow up film on the Walrus will include more details on the Airfix models. Please subscribe. Chris.

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Cheery lads. Chris.

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Thanks Andrew they had some nerve I have to say. Chris.

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Glad you enjoyed it Neil, keep an eye out for part two where I look at winching a Walrus back aboard the ship, what happened to the Australian Walrus and more from Squadron Leader Vic Hester DFC. Please subscribe. Chris.

@@GULLPERCHFLYER I’m x airforce and we flew single Otters on wheels, skis and amphibious floats up until the 80’s. That ended our search and rescue role when we got the Kiowa. So this was a real treat to watch.

I found a Walrus flying in the Faroe Islands 1950's. Many Thanks Chris.

My goodness that landing in those seas !

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Many thanks you are spot on with your historical facts. Happy New Year Chris.

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Interesting Kiwi Keith the footage was from a 1940 Royal Navy training film, please have a subscribe to my channel. Chris.

@@GULLPERCHFLYER Actually, I doubt it is a training film. It isn'y specifically about the Walrus - its just one subject of several. It would surprise me if this turned out to be a government film, because of the other unique local subjects also in the film. I also have a copy of a film shot at a Pre-war Wanganui airshow, about 1938 showing the RNZAF biplane bombers doing circuits and bumps. Lots of other stuff too. My best guess is these were taken by a prominent local citizen businessman.

Lovely thought. Chris.

Wow Station Manager that is a really amazing experience, would that have been in the early 1960's ? thank you so much for sharing your experience. Please do consider subscribing to my channel. Chris.

Thanks greerops I will feature the Airfix model in my next film, please Subscribe. Chris.

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Glad you enjoyed it David. Happy New Year. Chris.

Brilliant John appreciate your support. Chris.

Thanks Colin the little aircraft was often remembered with fondness. Chris.

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Thanks you for your grandads service from a former Royal I bet he was a bit of a lad in his time

Many Thanks Nicholas. Happy New Year. Chris.

Glad you enjoyed it Spikey Flo please consider subscribing to my channel I have two other films about the Walrus and over 200 historical films. Chris

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Think it was a very practical aircraft bit like a flying land rover. Please have a subscribe. Chris.

Many thanks Charlie amazing memories, really appreciate your time writing. Chris.

Thanks Keith interesting memories, please have a subscribe Chris .

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Many thanks Information World , follow up film will feature the journey's end for the Australian Walrus aircraft. Please subscribe. Chris.

Thanks Darrell there is a group building a Westland Whirlwind from scratch. Do have a subscribe please. Chris.

They are a great looking little aircraft. Chris.

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Thanks Ralph I was with the Fleet Auxiliary on RFA Olmeda. Chris.

They could certainly come up with a name back then. Chris.

Thanks Michael I have read about that one was it painted green? Chris.

There is a restored Walrus at the museum at RAAF Point Cook, the world's oldest operating airforce base, near Melbourne.

If it was ex RAAF it was probably a Seagull V, the forerunner of the Walrus.

@@blueycarlton The aircraft at Point Cook is from a batch of Walrus supplied to the RAAF during World War Two. The RAAF retained several Walrus in service post war. In 1947 the Walrus went to the Antarctica as part of Australia's Antarctica Research program, to be used for survey work. Whilst in the Antarctica it was flipped over on its back during a gale, the wreak subsequently being abandoned there. In the 1970s [or was it the 1980s?] it was recovered by a special RAAF team and brought back to Australia whence it underwent a complete restoration.

@michaelrussell5346 After disposal by the RAAF, it was acquired by a private buyer who used it for a while on charter work in New Guinea. It returned to Australia in the 60s being eventually grounded due to a lack of spare parts

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@@GULLPERCHFLYER I play World Of Warships British line, the spotters you can launch on the capital ships are Walrus types. Fascinating to see them launched and in the air then returning to the mother ship.

Many thanks I wrote to Airfix when I made this film but sadly they never replied. Do please subscribe to my channel. Chris.

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That was 2017 Robert as a tribute to a Walrus crew that took off from Mountbatten to fly over to France to rescue the wife of General De Gaule, sadly the aircraft crashed and all the crew were list, I made a short film about it on my you tube channel, please subscribe and check it out. Chris.

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Thank you Leonard please check out my other Walrus films on my channel. Chris.

Thanks Git my follow up film will focus on lifting the Walrus back on to deck and details on the Airfix models, please subscribe. Chris.

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If I remember right that's why Sweden won't allow the last of a aircraft type to fly

Sound point there Buzza Buzza. Chris.

Hmmm I guess back then there were many more about. Chris

@@GULLPERCHFLYER the entire aft section, wings, engine may have been destroyed in the war or training. It's either scavenged for useful, scrapped, vandalized or restored. A restoration such as this is incredibly expensive mind you! A lot of classic planes on display are just hodgepodged hulks-they resemble from 30 feet away..

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