Links
New from 'Great News' front page.
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/6187102.stm
- Whet your appetite then, here is an offering from Vancouver BC
- Go direct to the VIA webcams
- www.scotlandonfloats.com
- Latest at 27.3.8 kea publishing Erskine Renfrewshire Scotland
- This link will lead you to a site who sells a good collection of books related to Scottish Aviation History
www.keapublishing.com
If you are wondering how Oban gets linked with the Clyde it is simply that RAF Greenock serviced the Catalina and Sunderland flying boats.
- ww.obanmuseum.org.uk
- www.homepages.mcb.net/bones/06airfields/UK/uks.htm
- www.fantasyofflight.com/aircraftpages/sunderland.htm
- Latest link added by administrator
- www.scotiahelicopters.co.uk
- For those interested in the C class Empire Flying Boats try this very large and interesting website www.users.waitrose.com/~mbcass
- Flying Empires traces the pedigree of the S. 23, S.30 and S.33 Empire flying- boats from the early Felixtowe F flying-boats, through Short's biplane boats of the 1930s, to the first of the Empires as it emerged from the Seaplane Works at Rochester on 1 July 1936. The construction is described in detail. The functions of the crew are outlined and the operation of the boats on the water, taking off, in the air and alighting described. Refuelling, flight refuelling and maintenance are covered.
Short Bros. built forty-two Empire flying-boats at Rochester, Kent. Designed in 1934 to implement the Empire Air Mail Service, they carried unsurcharged letter mail throughout the British Empire and Dominions from Southampton to Durban & Sydney - later continuing to Auckland, New Zealand. The 'boats were operated by Imperial Airways Limited (IAL), QANTAS Empire Airways (QEA), Tasman Empire Airways Limited (TEAL) & British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC). Brief histories of the Empire Air Mail Service and the Horseshoe Route are included.
- www.eveningtimes.co.uk/hi/news/ 5031515.html
- New link below from Martin at Scotland One
- www.scotlandone.com/link/directory/aircraft/index.php
- Webmaster link to The Coastal Command Marine Association as promised .
- www.ccmaa.org.uk
- www.nuclearburst.co.uk
- www.atcu04.dsl.pipex.com/index.htm
- www.uk-airport-news.info/
- www.ekmfc.co.uk
- www.49f-atc.co.uk
- www.patrickkempe.co.uk/Video/Sunderland.htm