Qantas and the secret 'Double Sunrise' flights

By Jim Eames
Updated January 3 2018 - 9:48am, first published December 14 2017 - 12:22pm

By 1942, the Japanese were established in every landfall between Australia and Singapore. It was at this point that Qantas founder Hudson Fysh proposed to the government that a fleet of Catalina flying boats be used to link Australia to Britain via Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka), a flight of more than 5600 kilometres through enemy-controlled skies.

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