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Amazing how they took this photo

What make of seaplane?

This is a Royal Air Force Saunders-Roe A.27 London II flying boat, belonging to No. 203 Squadron. Unfortunately, given the angle of the photo, it's difficult to discern the aircraft's RAF serial number. Here's more: aeropedia.com.au/content/saunders-roe-london/

[A] further flight by RAF long-range flying boats was made to [Australia] in December 1937, these being a flight of five Saunders Roe Londons of No 203 General Reconnaissance Squadron fitted with a special long-range fuel tank above the hull. In early 1938 these aircraft (Serials K5908, K5912, K6927, K6929 and K6930) were flown to Sydney, NSW for the Sesquicentenary Celebrations. This was part of an overall return flight of 48,279 km (30,000 miles) commencing at Plymouth in the UK, being made via the Middle East, India, Rangoon, Singapore and Batavia in the Dutch East Indies. The flight was commanded by Wing Commander K B Lloyd AFC. The Sydney celebrations took place from 25 January to 7 February 1938. These five aircraft were London IIs with Pegasus X engines providing 787 kw (1,055 hp) for take-off, and differed from other aircraft in having three-blade fixed pitch propellers and long range fuel tanks increasing range to 4,184 km (2,600 miles).[

Dear SDSAM Archivists, Your collection on Flickr represents probably the most complete and thorough set of historical aircraft images on the web. While it was frustrating that most of the images are tiny, it is refreshing to see that you are now posting higher resolution images. And the coverage of the Shorts products, my favorite manufacturer, and a historically important one, is a significant addition. However I can't help but notice that this latest set of uploads is scanned incorrectly, with all of the images appearing very dark. The excitement of finally seeing the Short 'boats uploaded to your collection, and at higher resolution, is indeed made bittersweet by this technical error. Any chance of re-scanning the Shorts images at the correct brightness? Keep up the good work, love your site!! Thanks.

Batman_60 Yes, we will eventually have to rescan these. If you send me an email at arenga@sdasm.org I can send you some color corrected images.

Thanks for the response, and glad to hear that you plan to make good on these great images.