Stranraer Flying Boat 'The Stranny' 1966 Film
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- I first saw the Vickers Supermarine Stranraer flying boat at Hendon in 1978. It was love at first sight and after finding a copy of the 1966 CBC film 'The Stranny', it was time to make a small tribute. I apologise for the sound quality; my microphone is in the Silver Womble, parked outside an FBO near London. I am in Palm Beach, FL.
Music: ''Honeysuckle' by Honeyroot.
Photos: Air Britain / Dave Welch and others.
Film: CBC 'The Stranny' 1966.
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A wonderful piece of flying history!! Thanks so much. Keep it coming! Love all of your videos.
Thank you for such a kind comment. I hope to keep making films about interesting flying stories; it really is a hobby that I enjoy very much.
Lovely video, although, as Spike Milligan once said: "Nostalgia, leave me alone!" Congratulations on a beautiful presentation.
Milligan also wanted Harry Secombe to die first because he (Milligan) didn’t want Secombe singing at his funeral🤣
Did I see an amphibious version of the De Havilland Rapide at the start of the film?
They are straight floats, not amphibious. The style looks like EDO and they are probably Yd-6470 or Ya-6235 models.
First kite I ever flew in (Hendon UK). That pic really caught my attention.
@@johnjephcote7636 I assume you flew in a Rapide at Hendon? Super machine, I’ve done about 500 hours in Rapides.
I found this really interesting. My Gran used to work for Supermarine in Walston cutting on a fret, saw and she used to do the one offs and specials. This plane would’ve been built about the time my Gran worked for Supermarine, very much enjoyed his film, puts a bit of a lump in your throat anyway signing off the grandson of Eva Gillett
Those Pegasus engines were real workhorses too. The craftsmanship that went into those hulls (dating from the mahogany ones) in metal were superb. there was so much work in metal forming, even in the Spitfire. Only Supermarine could build like that ...really sports car bodywork!
Stone me! I never thought I would see a Rapide on floats.
I think the Canadians would put floats on anything that flies at that time. Aviation opened up the country and airstrips were few and far between. One of the Ice Pilots series had a great interview with Joe McBrian describing growing up in a logging camp and how important the bush pilots were to life in those remote communities.
Built an eight foot span R/C model similar to the Stranraer. It flew very nicely with two Enya .46 ci 4-stroke engines. It was rather clumsy and slow; but elegant at the same time. I hit the only tree at our flying site, which put an end to its flying. Still have the parts hanging from my garage ceiling, however.
I’m not sure whether to laugh or not? Darn tree 🤣
Being a big fan of the old flying boats, from The Felixtowes to The Sunderland and Sea Princess (and everything in between) this is a magnificent video. Many thanks for posting it. All the best.
ruclips.net/video/Hv8PDWHNOfA/видео.htmlsi=qyzk5uNSalnUBpi- I guess you've watched this a thousand times? I have!
My late dad built me a lovely plastic model of the Stranraer when I was a child, I think it was the 1/72nd scale version made by Matchbox, he finished it very nicely in a wartime camouflage scheme and even strung up all of the rigging. I can't remember what happened to it but it left a lasting impression on me. Thank you for sharing this video, what lucky men they were to have lived in such a time and to have led such carefree and adventurous lives flying such an archaic and interesting aeroplane in such a beautiful and challenging environment.
Every flying day must have been an adventure 👍
That was a most inspired and romanticised film about a well loved plane that I've ever seen. Any Flyng boat that had the Whale tail, wether an Aichi H9A, Sea Bee, Do-24, Canso etc are so much more beautiful than the deep hulled type. The Stranny's tail has to be one of the best.
I agree, the whale tail is pure style 😉
My most memorable flying trip was from Calshot in Antilles Air Boats Short Sandringham VP-LVE, in 1977. Tickets were advertised in Air Pictorial mag for £19.50 and the circuit of the Isle of Wight was prevented by low cloud at St Catherine's Point. The Capt. was Charles Blair and hostess, his wife Maureen O'Hara, the film actress! 'Beachcomber' is now in the Solent Sky museum.
Congratulations on the wonderful and entertaining videos.
That's a fantastic story, thanks for sharing!
Top notch! I've always been fascinated by flying boats. Off topic but 30 years ago the Short Bros factory building was still standing on the Medway just upstream of Rochester. They have now built flats on the site but the garages below the flats were part or the original structure. The concrete slipways are still there. I believe they stopped flying from Shorts Reach when the M2 viaduct was built in the early 1960's but flying boats were pretty much done by then anyway. The film on the Stranraer was a great find and your introduction was excellent as usual.
I visited the site of the Short Bros factory and slipways last year when I flew the Aeronca C3 up to Kent.
How utterly fantastic would it be to see a Supermarine Stranraer flying again, just like lots and lots of them did during WW2, on Loch Ryan near the shores of Stranraer in Scotland? It could operate a service which is complimentary to the ferry services operating to Northern Ireland from Cairnryan up the road a bit. Even the old dis-used ferry terminal is there, right next to the train station, to land passengers. They could name it "Princess Victoria" in memory of the ferry that went down in 1953 after the great storm. That would be soooo coool.
....a dreamer of beautiful dreams!
Thank you for sharing this wonderful documentary, the anecdotes were priceless and the guys love of the aeroplane was very touching.
Yes, it a delightfully honest film 🙂
The mechanics would've needed to be trapeze artist to work on those engines
Indeed!
Great vid. great stories! Thanks. You can probably find a program that will synchronize the sound with the film for you.
That's probably a bit beyond analogue me!
Oh my God! How wonderful to watch this..and to hear those stories, like, " you could come in low downwind, turn 180 with the engines cut, and dead- stick it to land". I am no pilot, but get the idea , this was a robust and stable flying boat with few vices.
I live by Southampton water in England. A place steeped in aviation history. I would have loved to have seen these aircraft back then.
Thank you so much.
Nick
It does appearthe Stranny was a well engineered flying machine. I’d like to have seen these in action too 🙂
Filmed in my backyard.
Thanks for this.
My pleasure 🙂
My family lived up the coast during most of the 50's, before I was born, and flying on QCA is still something my older siblings remember with awe. My late uncle had a scar on the top of his head from a rough landing in a Stranny at Kitimat. Bob Fortune was the CBC Vancouver weatherman as well as a miscellaneous local host into the 1970's.
Thank you for commenting. I visited the Queen Charlotte Islands in 1991, hitch hiked from Vancouver to Prince Rupert and then took the ferry. Would much prefer to have flown to the QCI but I couldn't afford it.
This is so priceless, such a relaxed conversation making you feel as if you’re sat there with them. Camera presence seems forgotten. Thank you so much once again..
My Father in Law is Jim Lightbown. I was at Abbotsford the day it took off.
Fantastic, the dolly take-off must have been quite a sight!
@@FlyingForFunTrecanair it really was. I was in Penticton the year Jim brought it up to give site seeing flights off Shaha Beach.
Older me and little me echo your sentiments. Thanks.
Neat! Thanks for sharing Nick!
That was an original bunch of flyers. Great stories and beautiful airplane.
I have an old Matchbox kit somewhere. That's gonna be her.
An excellent idea!
Nick there's, the remains of one at the Shearwater Aviation Museum,about 8 miles ftom me.
Yes indeed, it’s the mortal remains of CF-BYJ. I saw it all in 1991 when the rear fuselage, tail and wings were stored at Ed Zalesky’s farm in B.C. I also hitch hiked from Vancouver to Prince Rupert and took the ferry to the Queen Charlotte Islands. I’d much prefer to have flown there in a Stranny!
Thanks for finding and putting this film on here it was brilliant.
I'm pleased you enjoyed it, a wonderful flying boat!
I thought the Catalina was Gougous but WOW isn't this something else !!!! Thankyou for sharing 😉😎
I’m pleased you enjoyed it. Yes, the Stranny has always been a favourite of mine 🙂
@@FlyingForFunTrecanairyes and you got to see it as a young lad.... I was born in 66.... I'm envious of the memories you must have!!! I wander how many young people would know what a flying boat is these days...... take Care regards Deane 😉😎
@@deanedeane4318 I’m actually younger than you but I was born aged 60. Well past 100 now😂
@@FlyingForFunTrecanair ok now I'm confused ....so I thought it was in the 50/60s you first saw this plane in the museum as a lad ....?..... Also your voice sounds older than 100 😉😎⭐⭐⭐
@@deanedeane4318 it wasn’t bought by the museum until 1970. I saw it in 1978 😉
More of this please
I’ll try to find some more similar old film. The Stranny was a particularly good find and fitted the narrative from 45 years ago.
Wow! I would be terrified to change throttle settings. Add power and this thing would pitch down. Worse, reduce power and it would pitch up and stall in a flash! And then, if you ever did land it on water, i bet that high CG would give you attention grabbing porpoising.
The Stranny was purely a flying boat, it's not a case of 'if you ever did land it on water' because every landing was a water landing. The chaps in the film state that the Stranny had excellent characteristics on the water; likewise I don't believe the power/pitch couple would have been as pronounced as you imagine. Whilst the engines are high mounted, the centre of thrust is below the mainplane and not too far above the C of G. Very different to the Thurston Teal or Lake amphibian, both of which do have a more pronounced power/pitch couple.
Well, dats interesting. You are saying, then, that the drag of the wing, not the cg of the structure is the base of the couple? If that is so, i remain startled. Remember the Seawind 3000? I watched one take off at Greenville yrs ago. It appeared to be more sub than plane. Commented on that to the editor of the seaplane magazine and he told me that his review of the plane (20 yrs ago) said it COULD land on water. Just could, not should. That came to mind when i wrote “if”.
Also, i was once bent on buying a Grumman Widgeon and in course of that search was told that of the 65 or so produced mist had been damaged in a porpoise. And, i have long had the theory that the Lake amphib should be put on floats for serious bush operations. Just sayin’.
Thanks for interesting reply.
@@piperg6179 The couple must be based on many factors but the drag of both wings (and all those lovely wires!) must help damp out the couple. With regards to flying boat development, by the mid 1930s there had been 20+ years of good flying boat design; the biplane boats with their low speed flying envelope and strong, light structure were probably the toughest of the lot. Most were designed for rough water operation.
The Seawind 3000 looks more like a torpedo than an amphib, certainly reports I've read do question its handling on the water. The old adage about 'looking right and flying right' is appropriate, and as some wag once commented, all aircraft can land on water - once!