This last section features the primary reason that I made the trip. FoF has a Short Sunderland. I’ve always really liked this behemoth. I made an earlier post about this at…
http://forum.mutleyshangar.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=1412&hilit=fa08
Wikipedia has an extensive article about the Sunderland, including some very interesting operational and technical details at…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Sunderland
This example was built as ML-814, a Mark 3, and was later upgraded to a Mark 5. It was converted in Australia during a long and va