Supermarine Stranraer video (1 Viewer)

[Admiral Beez]

In 1966 the Canadian Broadcasting Corp (CBC) made a video on the postwar service of a Canadian-made Vickers Supermarine Stranraer. Enjoy.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUG8wdbWqtw

Shame the video does not show the interior, but this site below includes interior images from wartime service.

Canadian Warplanes 1: Canadian Vickers Stranraer, RCAF

Canadian Warplanes 1: Canadian Vickers Stranraer, RCAF.

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I visited this very same Stranraer at the RAF Museum in 2022.

I wish I'd lived in Canada during this era. Few people, open spaces. Flying boats.

 

[Admiral Beez]

I see the conformal tanks under the wings on this example.

I wonder how far a lightly loaded Stranraer with these tanks could fly. Can we escape from Singapore to Ceylon (1,650 miles) or Australia (1,752 miles to Exmouth)?