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Originally Posted by NoBozo
"...That plane is a Navy WWII PBY Catalina Flying Boat...I would be honored to get that close to one actually flying..."  |
Here's the next-best thing to getting close—an airshow video—with still another 2500 miles of fuel in the tanks yet to burn:
http://www.catalina.org.uk/press-vid...rland-a11.html
You can also go see one under restoration just over the NH border at the Sanford, Maine airport. It may even be possible to hear one running: they ran both engines last summer for the first time in years.
Afterwards, they found everything in the hanger coated in a not-so-fine layer of oil. My Dad, who flew PBY-5As with the "Black Cat" squadron VP-11, could have told them that—in advance!