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• aircraft
• airplane
• airliners
• aviation
• airlines
• flyingboat
• shortbrothers
• seaplane
• airline
• bristol
• airplanes
• bristolaeroplanecompany
• floatplane
• shortmayocomposite
• gadhj
• gadhk
• shorts21maia
• shorts21
• shortmaia
• maia
• shorts20mercury
• shorts20
• shortmercury
• bristolpegasus

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• SDASM Archives 28 photos & illustrations
• National Library of Ireland on The Commons 3 photos & illustrations
• State Library of Queensland 3 photos & illustrations
• State Library of New South Wales 3 photos & illustrations
• Nationaal Archief 1 photo / illustration

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Flying boat base, Rose Bay, Sydney, 1938

from State Library of New South Wales

• 17 older comments, and then…
• covid convict said:

  The other pics in this series show that they're working on Imperial Airways Short S-23 flying boat 'Camilla' G-AEUB www.aussieairliners.org/shortfb/vh-adu/vhadu.html

• Luc Brocard said:

  covid convict that's right, if you zoom on the side of the aircraft you can see his name : "Camilla". his registration became VH-ADU

• Luc Brocard said:

  the story of this aircraft here : pacificwrecks.com/aircraft/short/camilla.html

• Luc Brocard said:

  VH-ABB is on the water (story here : www.aussieairliners.org/shortfb/vh-abb/vhabb.html)

• State Library of New South Wales said:

  covid convict 👍

Maia and Mercury

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

• 20 older comments, and then…
• guliolopez said:

  Another bit of aircraft nerding from me. The one on top is a Shorts S20. Below is an S21. Both aircraft were passed on to BOAC in 1940. The S20 was broken up at Rochester in 1941. The S21 was destroyed in an air raid at Poole during WWII.

• instinctive mind said:

  Very nice photo. The Planes are Magnificent & In very good shape for 1938.

• FrigateRN said:

  It must have been interesting watching this little combo take off!

• National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:

  FrigateRN Absolutely! See our next photo for the pilots...

• XPAT-Polska said:

  This is amazing!

Seaplanes Rose Bay, Sydney, 1940129

from State Library of New South Wales

• CORNISHBOY2009 said:

  The Short C class flying boat Cooee as operated by Qantas

• covid convict said:

  ZK-AMA Tasman Empire Airways Ltd Short S-30 'Aotearoa'