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The Last African Flying Boat

Documentary
7.0·1990·1h 14m

For the first time in 40 years African skies resound to the roar of a flying boat. Alexander Frater boards a wartime Catalina in search of the romance...

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Cast

Alexander Frater

Alexander Frater

Self - Presenter

DIRECTOR

David Wallace

OVERVIEW

For the first time in 40 years African skies resound to the roar of a flying boat. Alexander Frater boards a wartime Catalina in search of the romance and adventure of Imperial Airways' legendary route from Cairo to the Cape - down the White Nile to the Rift Valley lakes of Kenya and on to the astonishing Ilha de Mocambique - the forgotten jewel of the Indian Ocean.