Why would it take so long to get another aircraft on station?
That doesn’t make any sense!
“Why would it take so long to get another aircraft on station?”
North Atlantic, March of ‘51. I would guess weather. RAF was still flying Short Sunderland and PBY Catalina flying boats until 1959. If a SAR plane wasn’t sent, weather and the inability to do operate well in it was not too good circa 1951.