Catalina at Catalina!

[Skunkworks]

[color=#0000ff][size=12]Island that is!

[CHUCK79]

Wow 2 and 4
I have been eyeballing that aircraft for a while now.......it's beautiful 8-)

[Flying Trucker]

Hi Greg...

Wonderful shots...very nice....

I posted this before somewhere at sometime but just a refresh post...

The Consolidated Canso was a fabulous aircraft, not the best but not the worse either...

The PBY5A was an amphibian...wonderful aircraft that is still in operation today.

The "Blisters" which you show on your pictures gave the aircraft a several Knot speed advantage over the Canso which used "Dutch Doors" or a door faired over the fuselage.

The Canso equipped with either was loaded at the dock or airport through these doors...no mean feat sometimes when loading aluminum boats, motors, passengers etc.

Like the Douglas DC3 everything was man handled, no rollers and nothing was easy and had to be secured to the aircraft.

This took time, patience and skill by the Ground Crew and Loudmaster who had to check the load and then rechecked by the Captain...along with the First Officer.

The Canso had a control column which had two wheels connected by a single bar/arm which contained switches amongst other things.

[Skunkworks]

Wow 2 and 4
I have been eyeballing that aircraft for a while now.......it's beautiful 8-)

[color=#0000ff]Thanks Chuck!

[Skunkworks]

[quote]Hi Greg...

Wonderful shots...very nice....

I posted this before somewhere at sometime but just a refresh post...

The Consolidated Canso was a fabulous aircraft, not the best but not the worse either...

The PBY5A was an amphibian...wonderful aircraft that is still in operation today.

The "Blisters" which you show on your pictures gave the aircraft a several Knot speed advantage over the Canso which used "Dutch Doors" or a door faired over the fuselage.

The Canso equipped with either was loaded at the dock or airport through these doors...no mean feat sometimes when loading aluminum boats, motors, passengers etc.

Like the Douglas DC3 everything was man handled, no rollers and nothing was easy and had to be secured to the aircraft.

This took time, patience and skill by the Ground Crew and Loudmaster who had to check the load and then rechecked by the Captain...along with the First Officer.

The Canso had a control column which had two wheels connected by a single bar/arm which contained switches amongst other things.

[patchz]

Great shots Greg, gotta love the PBY.

There are two scenes in the movie Midway that I dearly love. (No, not only two, there are many more.) 

1. During the search for the Japanese fleet, one crew (Strawberry five, I think) is shown with the co-pilot eating graham crackers. And the pilot says,

"how many of those things can you eat?" Then the engineer sticks his head up between them, is given a cracker by the co-pilot and pushed back down by the pilot.

[Skunkworks]

[quote]Great shots Greg, gotta love the PBY.

There are two scenes in the movie Midway that I dearly love. (No, not only two, there are many more.)

[Jake Bourdon]

Beautiful! Those are stunning shots Great work

-Jake