Letter of the Month Sunderland Nostalgia

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Dear Sir, I have a copy of Kelsey's 2012 bookazine on the Short Sunderland, written by Martyn Chorlton, and wonder if I could pose a few questions. As a 10-year-old looking out of my parents' first floor apartment balcony across Marsaxlokk Bay in Malta in 1953 and 1954,1 used to be fascinated by comings and goings of the white Sunderlands of the RAF. Although generally taking off to the east during the day (and at night with lit flare paths), on the occasions that they took off to the south, my mother would complain as the aircraft would wet her fresh washing on the flat roof of our home. However, it was very exciting for me watching the aircraft accelerate in their take-off run.