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In August a small company in Glasgow started the first city-based sea plane service for decades, offering regular trips from the River Clyde to Oban, and has already won the thistle award for innovation.听 John McCarthy talks to the owner, Captain David West about the seaplane as a mode of transport and whether it will revive an interest in flying boats in the UK.
Margaret O鈥橲haughnessy, the curator of Foynes Flying Boat Museum in Limerick talks about the historical significance of the flying boat; and enthusiast Lance Cole, one of a handful of people who have flown a Catalina flying boat in Africa, recounts his experience of retracing the old Imperial flying boat route and reminisces about his many adventures on this unique form on transport in Africa.
Presented by John McCarthy
Photo:听听Cessna 208 seaplane taking off on Loch Lomond (漏/Courtesy of Loch Lomond Seaplanes Ltd )
This week鈥檚 guests:
Lance Cole is a transport and travel writer and the author of several books internationally published on cars and aircraft- including a history of the Vickers VC10 airliner with Brian Trubshaw, Concorde test pilot.
Lance was brought up in Africa and lived in East Africa and Hong Kong. One of Lance鈥檚 relatives flew flying boats and as a young boy Lance became fascinated with family stories of those crafts; he had a house and garage full of old flying boat travel mementoes.
Lance has also taken many flying boat adventures, including flying in a fifty year old flying boat along the old Imperial Airways route, from the original Imperial Airways pier of the Zambezi, off the end of Victoria Falls and through East Africa
Vickers VC10
Publisher: The Crowood Press Ltd
ISBN-10: 1861262310
ISBN-13: 978-1861262318
Captain David West is a pilot and owner of , a company which provide scheduled services and custom charters to all four corners of Scotland. It is the UK鈥檚 only commercial seaplane service.听 The many lochs and natural harbours in Scotland make the seaplane the good choice for travel.听 Last August the company began Europe鈥檚 first city centre seaplane service.
Margaret O鈥橲haughnessy is the curator of the听 in Limerick, Ireland.听 Ireland became the centre of the aviation world from 1939 to 1945.听 On July 9th 1939, Pan Am's luxury Flying Boat, the "Yankee Clipper" landed at Foynes.听 This was the first commercial passenger flight on a direct route from the USA to Europe.听 The museum is housed in the original terminal building in Foynes.
Margaret started the museum twenty years ago and has been growing it ever since. Their latest exhibit is the world's only full scale replica of the , "Yankee Clipper".
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John McCarthy is a widely travelled journalist and presenter with a particular interest in the Middle East.
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