The Last African Flying Boat

1990 PG-13 1h 14m

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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.

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Geronimo1967 11 Apr 2026

7/10

Setting off from Cairo, this quite interesting documentary attempts to follow the route taken by the Catalina flying boats of Imperial Airways from what was still largely British Egypt down the coast to the Cape. The crew consist of an entrepreneur who is paying the bills, a captain (Jim) who is possibly the least communicative man on the continent and journalist Alexander Frater who recalled trav...