Sunderland Flying Boat Documentary 

Well done.

I was RNZAF Navigator on last military Sunderland flight April 1967.

Well done Abigail... My Grandad was a pilot on Sunderland DD848 which crashed into Mt Brandon in bad weather killing him and most of the crew. Nice to see someone putting something on about a much forgotten aircraft that did so much for our freedom. Well done.

Well done Abigail introducing a most majestic aeroplane to a new generation

I grew up in Sydney Australia watching & listening to the Sunderlands taking off and returning to Rose Bay in Sydney Harbor, flying domestic routes to the island groups on the north coast of NSW and Southern QLD until the 1970's. Respect to your Dad.

Well done Abigail. I'm part of the 13.3% of people who know about the Sunderland and I'm delighted that you've done this. There's plenty more if you want to keep going!

Well done Abigail, a really good and badly needed documentary on one of our great and almost forgotten aircraft designs.

The Short Sunderland was an awesome aircraft and accounted for the sinking of 26 U-Boats between 1939 and 1945. What I didn't know is that at the end of the war they were coming off the production line just to be sunk... What a sad end for such an iconic aircraft.

I live in Plymouth, what was RAF Mount Batten used to be a Sunderland and Catalina base, there is a plaque and a cast of one of the propellers, the cafe in between the two large hangers (now part of the boatyard but are the original hangers from the RAF days, there is quite a few lovely photos of the Sunderland and Catalina based there more than I’ve ever seen anywhere else. Incidentally T E Lawrence “Lawrence of Arabia “ was also based at RAF Mount Batten during his RAF career and specialised in the RAF fast search patrol and sea rescue boats also based at Mount Batten

When I was a child my mother went out with a guy called Jimmy Hamilton, Lovely guy despite the Alcholism, He'd been stationed in Burma as a rear gunner on a Sunderland. Back then you'd often meet old WW2 vetrans who'd regale you with tales of daring do, Jimmy was the kind that didn't tell stories, Jimmy had been captured by the Japanese, Worked on the railroad of Death, less than 80 survived out his camp of 800, disease starvation, beheadings. The only story he did tell was when I asked him about the scars on his fists, He said when sometimes a Browning would seize and he'd beat them till they started again, i got the feeling he'd used those Browning quite frequently.

One of my favourite aircraft.

Very nicely put together. Thank you

I commend you for doing this. I only have one critic I'm 77 and like I some young people of today who speed talk and less precise articulated I found it very hard to understand. In contrast, the other young man you interviewed I understood every word he said.

thank you so much for this its been hard to find anything on these planes nowadays my great grandfather flew them from the start to the end of the war and ive been trying to find out alot about them i even have his jacket to this day

Very enjoyable thank you Abigail. My Dad was a pilot in RAAF 10 Squadron. He'd be glad to see that there was still interest in the magnificent Short Sunderland. He spent many hours out over the Bay of Biscay trying to work out where they were and stay awake. He didn't tell me the other bits.

G'day,

Lovely! Well done. My dad flew occasionally on Sunderland's during the Berlin airlift.

Thank you for the interesting video. My father spent most of his career in the RAF flying in these aircraft as a flight engineer he retired just before they finished in service last posting was Singapore.

I've only just found this video (can't think how I missed it!) but thank you for posting it, Abigail - you are to be commended for your work and your interest, as these things fade further into history. My father flew Sunderlands during the Battle of the Atlantic, and they were tough times.

I'm sometimes a bit lazy, so thanks for doing the leg work and providing information of Shorts early years. Cheers.