What an excellent filum! I have (somewhere) a VHS tape of “The Last African Flying Boat” which followed an attempt at recreating the old Imperial Airways routes, using a Consolidated PBY-5 Catalina. Whilst a more modern design than the aircraft shown here, its cruising speed wasn’t that much faster, and the view out must have been wonderful on a good day – not so in bad weather, which none of these machines could climb above.
Another airport, one that doesn’t have problems with security 🙂
B-2 Bomber Pilots Return to Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri | https://rumble.com/v6v6ew9-b-2-bomber-pilots-return-to-whiteman-air-force-base-in-missouri.html
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JH: Yes.
What an excellent filum! I have (somewhere) a VHS tape of “The Last African Flying Boat” which followed an attempt at recreating the old Imperial Airways routes, using a Consolidated PBY-5 Catalina. Whilst a more modern design than the aircraft shown here, its cruising speed wasn’t that much faster, and the view out must have been wonderful on a good day – not so in bad weather, which none of these machines could climb above.
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JH: I’ll look around for that, MD.
Here you go:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hv8PDWHNOfA
The same aircraft featured in this documentary is currently for sale:
https://rnzaf.proboards.com/thread/30327/zk-pby-sale
It appears to have become a victim of that evil ***** J Ardern, and her over zealous CV lockdowns…