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Mar 26^th, 2011 at 8:53pm

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Island that is!

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Reply #1 - Mar 26^th, 2011 at 8:59pm

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Wow 2 and 4 Shocked

I have been eyeballing that aircraft for a while now.......it's beautiful Cool

"Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth and danced the skies on laughter silvered wings. Sunward I've climbed and joined the tumbling mirth of sun split clouds.....and done a hundred things you have never dreamed of.....wheeled and soared and swung high in the sunlit silence. Hovering there, I've chased the shouting wind along and flung my eager craft through footless halls of air.

Up, up the long, delerious, burning blue I've topped the wind swept heights with easy grace where never Lark, nor even Eagle flew. While with silent lifting of mind I've trod the high untrespassed sanctity of space, put out my hand and touched the face of god"

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Reply #2 - Mar 26^th, 2011 at 9:24pm

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Hi Greg...

Wonderful shots...very nice.... Wink

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

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

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. Not like most aircraft like the Cessna or aircraft of that era.

The engine controls were mounted in the ceiling between both pilots and the Flight Engineer also had engine controls in his position which was later modified but was located in the pylon between the wing and fuselage.

The Flight Engineer could only see out the two windows located one each on the port and starboard sides and not toward the front of the aircraft.

We removed the Flight Enginees Station and replaced it with bladders to carry stove and furnace oil...

When docking on water the wing floats had to be retracted to go over the dock...or bang... Grin

Again great shots of a great aircraft and sorry to get so long winded... Grin

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

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Reply #3 - Mar 26^th, 2011 at 9:52pm

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CHUCK79 wrote on Mar 26^th, 2011 at 8:59pm:

Wow 2 and 4 Shocked

I have been eyeballing that aircraft for a while now.......it's beautiful Cool

Thanks Chuck!

She's easy to fly, just a little too slow. I guess I'm gettin' used to flying the smaller bugsmashers now! Cool

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Reply #4 - Mar 26^th, 2011 at 9:58pm

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Flying Trucker wrote on Mar 26^th, 2011 at 9:24pm:

Hi Greg...

Wonderful shots...very nice.... Wink

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

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

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. Not like most aircraft like the Cessna or aircraft of that era.

The engine controls were mounted in the ceiling between both pilots and the Flight Engineer also had engine controls in his position which was later modified but was located in the pylon between the wing and fuselage.

The Flight Engineer could only see out the two windows located one each on the port and starboard sides and not toward the front of the aircraft.

We removed the Flight Enginees Station and replaced it with bladders to carry stove and furnace oil...

When docking on water the wing floats had to be retracted to go over the dock...or bang... Grin

Again great shots of a great aircraft and sorry to get so long winded... Grin

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

Please!

I read it all and feel honored you would take the time to inform.

You've also described the flight deck to a tee and have given me some ideas for some pics. Cool

Thank you!

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Reply #5 - Mar 27^th, 2011 at 5:38am

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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.) Roll Eyes

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. Grin

2. Admiral Nimitz (Henry Fonda) is returning from a trip to Washington and is met on the dock by Capt. Garth, (Charleton Heston) and Commander Rochefort

(Hal Holbrook). And there is a PBY landing in the bay in the background. The sound of those 900 HP twin Pratt & Whitney engines is music to my ears.

If God intended aircraft engines to have horizontally opposed engines, Pratt and Whitney would have made them that way.

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Reply #6 - Mar 27^th, 2011 at 12:14pm

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patchz wrote on Mar 27^th, 2011 at 5:38am:

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.) Roll Eyes

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. Grin

2. Admiral Nimitz (Henry Fonda) is returning from a trip to Washington and is met on the dock by Capt. Garth, (Charleton Heston) and Commander Rochefort

(Hal Holbrook). And there is a PBY landing in the bay in the background. The sound of those 900 HP twin Pratt & Whitney engines is music to my ears.

Thank you L.T.

It's been too long since I saw the movie...yep instant available on Netflix.

Later

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Reply #7 - Mar 28^th, 2011 at 7:28pm

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Beautiful! Those are stunning shots

Great work

-Jake

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