Sunderland Over Far-eastern Seas: An Raf Flying Boat Navigator's Story
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Used, very good condition, hard cover with dust jacket. This is the first book to give a detailed, first-hand account of post-World War II RAF Short Sunderland operations in the Far East. The author was a navigator with 88 Squadron and later 205 Squadron, flying operations during the Korean War, the Malayan Emergency and many other operations. The Sunderland flying boat was a unique aircraft in that each crew was allotted an aircraft which became their floating and airborne home. The crew relied upon all-round cooperation to keep the aeroplane in top condition, plus the addition of personalised luxuries. The task of long distance navigation in the Far East during the early 1950s relied on the conventional methods of astro-navigation and dead reckoning, a difficult task when crossing hundreds of miles of open ocean and encountering monsoon and tropical storm conditions. Amongst the noteworthy events included is a return flight from Singapore to Hong Kong across 1,400 miles of ocean with a VIP passenger, his first operational flight as a 21 year old Pilot Officer navigator. He flew sixty-one missions in support of the United Nations forces fighting in and around Korea, enduring the threat of Chinese fighters over the Yellow Sea.This is a worthy record of some of the legendary Short Sunderland's final roles in the RAF. There is very slight wear to the edges of the dust jacket but otherwise the book is in excellent condition with sound binding, good corners and clean, unmarked pages.
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