From a time when getting a flight was a touch more glamorous than it is today:
“The seats could be converted into 36 bunks for overnight accommodation. The 314s had a lounge and dining area, and the galleys were crewed by chefs from four-star hotels. Men and women were provided with separate dressing rooms, and white-coated stewards served five and six-course meals with gleaming silver service.”
I do like a good seaplane or for that matter WIGE craft (Lloyds count them as seacraft so I’m not being first to post the Ekranoplan here). Excellent so far, keep them coming.
Indeed the Cat at Duxford does fly, I volunteer with the team that operate it and get to fly on it regularly.
I like. A lot.
It’s the same aircraft as the one as the in the You Tube above flying of Lake Geneva.
I always liked the Martin Seamaster.
Developed to use the sea if the Russians destroyed all the airfields but never really went it to service due to rapid development of ICBMs.
@Duffer, actually it’s an ex-Royal Canadian Air Force aircraft. It’s painted in the colours of a famous USAF example, 433915, ‘Miss Pick Up’ which operated out of Halesworth in Suffolk during the war.
There’s chapter and verse here, if you fancy a read :
My Grandfather flew a Walrus for the Fleet Air Arm during the war. Lovely quote from Wikipedia: “The Walrus was affectionately known as the “Shagbat” or sometimes “Steam-pigeon”; the latter name coming from the steam produced by water striking the hot Pegasus engine.”