{"id":10175997,"date":"2026-08-07T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T10:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/?p=10175997"},"modified":"2026-08-08T11:44:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T09:44:40","slug":"short-sunderland-flying-porcupine-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/de\/short-sunderland-flying-porcupine-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Das fliegende Stachelschwein, das die Luftwaffe in Angst und Schrecken versetzte"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.et_pb_title_container h1.entry-title { padding-top: 40px !important; }<\/style>\r\n\r\n<p>German fighter pilots had a name for the big four-engined British flying boat they kept meeting over the Atlantic: the Fliegendes Stachelschwein &mdash; the &ldquo;flying porcupine.&rdquo; They earned that respect the hard way. Attacking a lone Short Sunderland tended to cost more aircraft than it was worth.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Slow, fat and bristling with guns, the Sunderland was never glamorous. But for six years it was the aircraft U-boat crews least wanted to see &mdash; and the one shot-down sailors most hoped to.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f5f5f5;padding:20px;border-radius:8px;margin:24px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 10px;font-weight:700;font-size:18px\">Kurzinfo<\/p><ul style=\"margin:0;padding-left:20px;line-height:1.8\"><li><strong>Flugzeug:<\/strong> Short S.25 Sunderland flying boat<\/li><li><strong>Rolle:<\/strong> RAF Coastal Command long-range maritime patrol and anti-submarine<\/li><li><strong>Erster Flug:<\/strong> 1937; derived from the Empire commercial flying boat<\/li><li><strong>Crew:<\/strong> around 10&ndash;13<\/li><li><strong>Spitzname:<\/strong> &ldquo;Flying Porcupine&rdquo; &mdash; up to 18 machine guns on late aircraft<\/li><li><strong>U-boat tally:<\/strong> shared in sinking or damaging around 56 Axis submarines<\/li><li><strong>Longevity:<\/strong> served into the 1950s with the RAF; RNZAF flew it until about 1967<\/li><\/ul><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">An airliner that went to war<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>The Sunderland began life as a peaceful idea. Short Brothers took its elegant Empire commercial flying boat and, answering a 1933 Air Ministry requirement, turned it into a military patrol aircraft. First flown in 1937, it gave RAF Coastal Command something it desperately lacked: an aircraft that could stay over the ocean for many hours, far out into the Atlantic, searching for submarines and surface raiders and plucking survivors from the water.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L27XFzJ6JJI\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>It was enormous &mdash; a two-deck hull with bunks, a galley and a workshop, crewed by ten to thirteen men who could live aboard for the length of a marathon patrol. And it was armed. Early Sunderlands carried seven machine guns; by the bloody middle years over the Bay of Biscay, some carried as many as eighteen.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img data-opt-id=981206987  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:0e0_.b970\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/08\/short-sunderland-2.jpg\" alt=\"Gunners aboard a Short Sunderland\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">Gunners aboard a Sunderland. Late aircraft bristled with as many as 18 machine guns &mdash; hence the &ldquo;porcupine.&rdquo; Photo: Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The day the porcupine got its name<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>The nickname was born on 3 April 1940, when a Sunderland of No. 228 Squadron, jumped by six Junkers Ju 88 fighters off Norway, shot one down and damaged the rest so badly they fled. German aircrew took note.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;Fliegendes Stachelschwein &mdash; the flying porcupine.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>German Luftwaffe aircrews<\/strong> &mdash; 1940<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The most famous fight came in June 1943 over the Bay of Biscay. A Sunderland of No. 461 Squadron RAAF was set upon by eight Ju 88 long-range fighters. In a running battle it shot down three, drove off the rest, and &mdash; riddled, with crew wounded &mdash; nursed itself hundreds of kilometres home to be beached on the Cornish coast.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f8f9fa;border-left:4px solid #1565c0;padding:20px 22px;margin:18px 0 24px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;font-size:16px;line-height:1.7;display:flex;gap:20px;align-items:flex-start\"><div><em>&ldquo;Even the fighter versions of the German Junkers 88 treated individual Sunderlands with respect, especially after a June 1943 encounter in which Sunderland N\/461 fought off eight Ju-88s, claiming three and damaging two others.&rdquo;<\/em><div style=\"margin-top:10px;font-size:14px;color:#555\"><strong>Capt. Richard Dick, USN (Ret.)<\/strong> &mdash; Naval Historical Foundation<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L5STJdpVc0o\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The U-boat killer<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>Guns made the Sunderland survive; radar and depth charges made it deadly. As the aircraft gained sea-search radar, better bombsights and Torpex-filled depth charges, it became a genuine submarine killer. By VE-Day, Sunderlands had shared in sinking or damaging around 56 German and Italian submarines &mdash; and rescued countless airmen and sailors from the sea along the way.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\" style=\"margin:0 0 24px;width:100%\"><img data-opt-id=1865666179  fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:0e0_.b970\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:mauto\/ig:avif\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/08\/short-sunderland-3.jpg\" alt=\"Short Sunderland flying boat\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;max-width:100%;display:block;border-radius:6px\"><figcaption style=\"font-size:13px;color:#777;text-align:center;margin-top:6px;font-style:italic\">A preserved Short Sunderland. The type served into the 1950s and, with New Zealand, into the 1960s. Photo: Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:22px\">The long goodbye<\/h2>\r\n\r\n<p>Peace did not retire the porcupine. Sunderlands flew maritime patrols until the Avro Shackleton arrived, carried supplies during the Berlin Airlift by landing on the city&rsquo;s lakes, and supported Arctic expeditions. The very last examples soldiered on with the Royal New Zealand Air Force into the late 1960s &mdash; three decades after the prototype first touched the water. Not bad for an airliner that went to war.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"position:relative;padding-bottom:56.25%;height:0;overflow:hidden;margin:24px 0\"><iframe class=\"skip-lazy\" data-no-lazy=\"1\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g8-eX0cnwNw\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;border:0;border-radius:8px\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><em>Sources: Naval Historical Foundation (Capt. Richard Dick); naval-encyclopedia.com; uboat.net; Andrew Hendrie, Short Sunderland.<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\"background:#f0f4ff;border-left:4px solid #5C91FF;padding:16px 20px;margin:32px 0 8px;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0\"><p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;font-weight:600;color:#333\">\u00c4hnliche Beitr\u00e4ge<\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/short-mayo-composite-piggyback-atlantic-1938\/\">Huckepackflugzeug, das den Atlantik \u00fcberquerte<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/junkers-ju-52-tante-ju-switzerland-ju-air\/\">Tante Ju: Der Schweizer Abschied von Tante Ju<\/a><\/p><p style=\"margin:4px 0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/jetflights\/westland-wyvern-turboprop-strike-fighter-underwater-ejection\/\">Der Kampfjet, dessen Pilot sich unter Wasser mit dem Schleudersitz rettete<\/a><\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German fighter pilots had a name for the big four-engined British flying boat they kept meeting over the Atlantic: the Fliegendes Stachelschwein &mdash; the &ldquo;flying porcupine.&rdquo; They earned that respect the hard way. 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