| Cardinal Hawkwood | 26 Jul 2014 10:01 p.m. PST |
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dragon6  | 26 Jul 2014 10:28 p.m. PST |
Beautiful Where was the photo taken? |
 Doms Decals  | 27 Jul 2014 3:06 a.m. PST |
Fantastic – is that the ex-Portuguese one? |
| Dagorlad | 27 Jul 2014 3:38 a.m. PST |
One of my all time favourite aircraft. Thanks for sharing the photo Cardinal. |
| Cardinal Hawkwood | 27 Jul 2014 3:49 a.m. PST |
At Rathmines NSW if you do FB it is all here
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| Cardinal Hawkwood | 27 Jul 2014 3:49 a.m. PST |
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| Cardinal Hawkwood | 27 Jul 2014 3:56 a.m. PST |
my father actually was an armourer during the war and worked on the actual aircraft that this one represents, though they weren't amphibians |
| Doms Decals | 27 Jul 2014 4:16 a.m. PST |
My granddad was a flying boat fitter too (at Pembroke Dock in Wales), although I don't know if he worked on Cats – they were certainly based there, but he was mainly a Sunderland man. |
| Cardinal Hawkwood | 27 Jul 2014 5:24 a.m. PST |
I was always surpised my sister wasn't named Catalina |
| McWong73 | 27 Jul 2014 5:24 a.m. PST |
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| Fatman | 27 Jul 2014 5:26 a.m. PST |
Dom I thought your family were from Bristol way? Yeah I know hat coat seeya. ;-p Fatman |
| Swab Jockey | 27 Jul 2014 5:48 a.m. PST |
My Dad flew Coronados, as well as these. His unit used these to deliver mail to the island garrisons. An old-time wargames/shop owner from the Tampa, FL area, named Al Younghans flew them for the Army in the Pacific to rescue downed airmen. The Army PBYs(unlike the Navy's), he said, did not have outer wing pontoons, so Al said that in the open ocean they could not take off safely (wing would catch the water, snap of and the prop would come through the cockpit). So after they rescued the crew, they would taxi on the water toward a rescuing Destroyer, unload onto it, then the Destroyer would sink the PBY. |
| Doms Decals | 27 Jul 2014 6:47 a.m. PST |
Fatman – both of my granddads were regulars in the forces, and then moved to Bristol for jobs at BAC in Filton when they'd done their time as it were. (Although Granddad C was a Sunderland man by trade only, Grandad S was actually from that neck of the woods – he started his forces career on coastal artillery at Hartlepool, before switching from artillery to the signals….) My mum was actually born in Pembroke, but they moved to Bristol when she was very young, while my dad was born in Catterick, and lived in Hong Kong, Singapore and Germany before the family settled in Bristol. Pack of mongrels really…. ;-) |
| jpattern2 | 27 Jul 2014 12:12 p.m. PST |
Look at those lines. Beautiful! |
| William Warner | 27 Jul 2014 1:55 p.m. PST |
In 1970 the ship I served on was stationed at Pearl Harbor during the filming of Tora! Tora! Tora! We witnessed a lot of fantastic flying, but the finest sight I remember seeing took pace one late afternoon while we were headed in through the main channel. Suddenly a magnificent PBY lifted out of the cane fields to starboard and swept across our bow at low altitude after taking off from Hickam Field. I think everyone on the bridge instinctively said "Wow!" They are a real sight to see in flight. |
 Saber6  | 27 Jul 2014 5:12 p.m. PST |
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| Roderick Robertson | 27 Jul 2014 7:15 p.m. PST |
We used to see one flying over our house during fire season. |
| Cardinal Hawkwood | 28 Jul 2014 2:25 a.m. PST |
McWong "Using FB for good", is my motto |
| Cardinal Hawkwood | 28 Jul 2014 5:21 p.m. PST |
and for the Catalina, or flying boats in general ,fancier
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| spontoon | 29 Jul 2014 5:01 p.m. PST |
Isn't the amphibian version of the Catalina called the Canso? |
| spontoon | 29 Jul 2014 5:08 p.m. PST |
Ooops! Apparently only the Canadian Vickers built versions. One in the Warplane Heritage Museum in Hamilton, Ontario. |
| Jemima Fawr | 30 Jul 2014 11:53 p.m. PST |
Dom, Have you told your granddad's story to the Flying Boat Trust at Pembroke Dock? I know they'd be interested. |
| Lion in the Stars | 05 Aug 2014 4:23 p.m. PST |
Yeah, if I could only own a single airplane, it would be a Catalina amphibian with the observation bubbles. |
