Canary Islands 28th Sept to 12 Oct 2023
We arrived in Southampton where we stayed 2 nights at the holiday Inn and did some shopping there but in the afternoon I went off to see the Air Museum of the Solent. Flying boats started in 1913 and ended in the 1950s. From London you had to take a train to Southampton the Laker River harbours. The Solent is between this part of the coast and the Isle of White between Pourtsmith and Poole. The boat makers realized that working with boats, wood and canvas that they were skilled at and could produce the airplanes. Because airports had not been built and everywhere they needed to go had a place of smooth water. I923 the first passenger service began. In 1940 the main Spitfire factory was bombed but the machines were saved. Lord Beaverbrook the head of supplies and munitions, insisted that they find a quick solution so they transferred the machine tools to the surrounding factories and within 5 days the parts were being produced and the planes were being assembled elsewhere. The lead