1943 Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina flying boat at the Goodwood Revival
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Consolidated PBY Catalina
Consolidated PBY Catalina. The Consolidated Model 28, more commonly known as the PBY Catalina (US Navy designation), is a flying boat and amphibious aircraft designed by Consolidated Aircraft in the 1930s and 1940s. In US Army service it was designated the OA-10, in Canadian service as the Canso and it later received the NATO reporting name Mop ...
Cat Tales: The story of World War II's PBY Flying Boat
A Patrol Bombing Squadron 52 (VPB-52) PBY-5 flying boat alongside a local outrigger canoe, during a rescue mission to the northwest end of McCluer Gulf in New Guinea, 13 August 1944.
The Consolidated PBY Catalina
Here are seven amazing facts about the Catalina PBY, an aircraft that patrolled the vast reaches of the world's oceans, looking for an enemy to track, report, or destroy. A PBY prototype, circa 1935. (Image source: WikiMedia Commons) It entered service before WW2. The PBY line of flying boats was conceived in 1933 in Buffalo, New York.
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The Consolidated Model 28, or the PBY Catalina, was designed and used extensively in the 1930s and 1940s, with applicability that ranged from patrol bomber to rescue missions.
PBY Catalina History
CONSOLIDATED PBY / Catalina / Canso History. A brief PBY History by: John Clement . Development. The plane that would become the PBY Catalina was designed by Consolidated Aircraft Corporation's lead designer, Isaac Machlin ("Mac") Laddon when, in 1933, the United States Navy, wary of Japan's growing influence in the Pacific Ocean, requested competing prototype designs for a flying boat ...
360° Cockpit: Catalina PBY-5a Flying Boat Takeoff
Support HAFU by becoming a Subscriber at http://www.historicalmachines.tv/pages/fuel-to-noise. 360° In Cockpit : You Choose The View — Check out this great ...
The Best Flying Boat
The Consolidated PBY Catalina was the most successful flying boat ever developed. The "Cats" were employed in World War II as patrol aircraft and bombers, and performed torpedo, antisubmarine, search-and-rescue, and transport roles. Radar-equipped PBYs— painted black and known as "Black Cats"—carried out nighttime reconnaissance and ...
PBY-5A Catalina
The overall effect was an aerodynamically clean aircraft far superior to previous flying boat designs. Powered by two Pratt & Whitney R-1830-58 engines of 825 horsepower each, the aircraft, with a crew of seven to ten, was armed with three .30-in. machine guns, and could carry 2,000 lb. of bombs.
Consolidated PBY-5 Catalina
The Consolidated PBY Catalina was the U. S. Navy's most successful patrol flying boat of the war but naval aviators also used the PBY to attack ships at night, and to search for and rescue people stranded at sea. Following World War II, large seaplanes and flying boats suffered a mass extinction.
To the Rescue: Consolidated PBY Catalina
On July 31, 1943, a Brazilian Catalina sank the German sub U-199 off Rio de Janeiro. On Aug. 2, 1945, a U.S. Navy PBY was the first vessel to rescue survivors of the torpedoed heavy cruiser Indianapolis. Through war's end the Allies built a total of 3,308 Catalinas—more than all other World War II-era flying boats combined.
Modernized Catalina Flying Boat Returns to the Skies
The Consolidated Aircraft Corp. Catalina PBY flying boat is an icon of the World War II era, but this ancient design may have new life when brand-new examples are built using modern turboprop powerplants and contemporary avionics. ... a Consolidated PBY-5 Catalina patrol bomber can take off on land as well as water. The plane's civilian ...
Catalina History
The PBY Catalina series of flying boats was originally conceived to meet a military requirement and its development built on Consolidated's experience with earlier flying boat designs. These earlier types had included the commercial Model 16 Commodore and the military Model 22 Ranger/P2Y series. The Commodore was itself a development of the ...
Catalina Aircraft to relaunch iconic flying boat
The original Consolidated PBY Catalina amphibious flying boat first flew in 1936 and served 41 nations during World War Two across a variety of missions. An estimated 3,308 variants were built between 1936-1945 and the type was also used extensively by a variety of airlines.
Consolidated PBY Catalina
The PBY Catalina was during WW2 both a spy and vengeful angel of death for U-Boats, and an angel of mercy for their victims. With more than 3,300 produced, perhaps more than 4,000 in all versions, it was the most common flying boat of WW2. Like the Swordfish also one of the most memorable fleet air arm aircraft for its historical significance.
PBY the Catalina flying boat
Roscoe Creed. Description. "The greatest of all flying boats, the PBY Catalina was one of the most versatile aircraft ever built. Yet, until the publication of this book, a single definitive study of the aircraft has not been available. Now all the fascinating facts about the PBY are pulled together in one volume by an author who, enthralled ...
Cat Tales: Consolidated's PBY Flying Boat
With a beefy continuous I-beam spar and internal bracing, the wing was actually semicantilevered. At the time, the PBY was the cleanest flying boat, dragwise, ever designed. This PBY-5A shows off some of the Catalina's attributes, long "wet" wings, bulging waist gun positions and dipole radar antennas under each wing.
The Pacific War Online Encyclopedia: PBY Catalina, U.S. Flying Boat
PBY Catalina, U.S. Flying Boat. 3290 of all variants by 1945 at Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation, San Diego, and Boeing Canada, Vancouver, including 355 PBY-5 or -5A by December 1941. -1 through -4 had only minor differences. Some were retrofitted with an ASV.II external dipole array as early as July 1941, but radar was not widely ...
WWII PBY Catalina Flying Boat Takes Flight
August 12, 2020 - A vintage World War II era Consolidated PBY Catalina flying boat takes flight from the waters of Pearl Harbor in preparation for the 75th C...
Pictures of an Extreme Luxury "Landseaire" Flying Yacht Converted from
These black and white photographs below were taken in 1950 by fame LIFE photographer Loomis Dean, who was invited aboard this luxury post-war conversion of a consolidated PBY Catalina, one of the most versatile airplanes used in the Second World War. According to Messy Nessy Chic, after the war, an entrepreneur by the name of Glenn Odekirk saw a new future for the roomy Catalinas as extreme ...
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The free four-hour air show took place over St Aubins' Bay and included displays by the RAF Falcons parachute display team, a Fairey Swordfish biplane and a PBY Catalina flying boat.
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The whole gallery is situated inside an old church, and the iconostasis is still visible from all three levels of the... 7. Perm Academic Theatre-Theatre. 73. Architectural Buildings. Perm Academic Theatre-Theatre is one of the oldest theatres of Perm region, as it was founded on the 14th of March 1927.
Consolidated PBY-5 Catalina
The Consolidated PBY Catalina was the U. S. Navy's most successful patrol flying boat of the war but naval aviators also used the PBY to attack ships at night, and to search for and rescue people stranded at sea. Following World War II, large seaplanes and flying boats suffered a mass extinction.
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Consolidated PBY Catalina. The Consolidated Model 28, more commonly known as the PBY Catalina (US Navy designation), is a flying boat and amphibious aircraft designed by Consolidated Aircraft in the 1930s and 1940s. In US Army service it was designated the OA-10, in Canadian service as the Canso and it later received the NATO reporting name Mop ...
A Patrol Bombing Squadron 52 (VPB-52) PBY-5 flying boat alongside a local outrigger canoe, during a rescue mission to the northwest end of McCluer Gulf in New Guinea, 13 August 1944.
Here are seven amazing facts about the Catalina PBY, an aircraft that patrolled the vast reaches of the world's oceans, looking for an enemy to track, report, or destroy. A PBY prototype, circa 1935. (Image source: WikiMedia Commons) It entered service before WW2. The PBY line of flying boats was conceived in 1933 in Buffalo, New York.
The Consolidated Model 28, or the PBY Catalina, was designed and used extensively in the 1930s and 1940s, with applicability that ranged from patrol bomber to rescue missions.
CONSOLIDATED PBY / Catalina / Canso History. A brief PBY History by: John Clement . Development. The plane that would become the PBY Catalina was designed by Consolidated Aircraft Corporation's lead designer, Isaac Machlin ("Mac") Laddon when, in 1933, the United States Navy, wary of Japan's growing influence in the Pacific Ocean, requested competing prototype designs for a flying boat ...
Support HAFU by becoming a Subscriber at http://www.historicalmachines.tv/pages/fuel-to-noise. 360° In Cockpit : You Choose The View — Check out this great ...
The Consolidated PBY Catalina was the most successful flying boat ever developed. The "Cats" were employed in World War II as patrol aircraft and bombers, and performed torpedo, antisubmarine, search-and-rescue, and transport roles. Radar-equipped PBYs— painted black and known as "Black Cats"—carried out nighttime reconnaissance and ...
The overall effect was an aerodynamically clean aircraft far superior to previous flying boat designs. Powered by two Pratt & Whitney R-1830-58 engines of 825 horsepower each, the aircraft, with a crew of seven to ten, was armed with three .30-in. machine guns, and could carry 2,000 lb. of bombs.
The Consolidated PBY Catalina was the U. S. Navy's most successful patrol flying boat of the war but naval aviators also used the PBY to attack ships at night, and to search for and rescue people stranded at sea. Following World War II, large seaplanes and flying boats suffered a mass extinction.
On July 31, 1943, a Brazilian Catalina sank the German sub U-199 off Rio de Janeiro. On Aug. 2, 1945, a U.S. Navy PBY was the first vessel to rescue survivors of the torpedoed heavy cruiser Indianapolis. Through war's end the Allies built a total of 3,308 Catalinas—more than all other World War II-era flying boats combined.
The Consolidated Aircraft Corp. Catalina PBY flying boat is an icon of the World War II era, but this ancient design may have new life when brand-new examples are built using modern turboprop powerplants and contemporary avionics. ... a Consolidated PBY-5 Catalina patrol bomber can take off on land as well as water. The plane's civilian ...
The PBY Catalina series of flying boats was originally conceived to meet a military requirement and its development built on Consolidated's experience with earlier flying boat designs. These earlier types had included the commercial Model 16 Commodore and the military Model 22 Ranger/P2Y series. The Commodore was itself a development of the ...
The original Consolidated PBY Catalina amphibious flying boat first flew in 1936 and served 41 nations during World War Two across a variety of missions. An estimated 3,308 variants were built between 1936-1945 and the type was also used extensively by a variety of airlines.
The PBY Catalina was during WW2 both a spy and vengeful angel of death for U-Boats, and an angel of mercy for their victims. With more than 3,300 produced, perhaps more than 4,000 in all versions, it was the most common flying boat of WW2. Like the Swordfish also one of the most memorable fleet air arm aircraft for its historical significance.
Roscoe Creed. Description. "The greatest of all flying boats, the PBY Catalina was one of the most versatile aircraft ever built. Yet, until the publication of this book, a single definitive study of the aircraft has not been available. Now all the fascinating facts about the PBY are pulled together in one volume by an author who, enthralled ...
With a beefy continuous I-beam spar and internal bracing, the wing was actually semicantilevered. At the time, the PBY was the cleanest flying boat, dragwise, ever designed. This PBY-5A shows off some of the Catalina's attributes, long "wet" wings, bulging waist gun positions and dipole radar antennas under each wing.
PBY Catalina, U.S. Flying Boat. 3290 of all variants by 1945 at Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation, San Diego, and Boeing Canada, Vancouver, including 355 PBY-5 or -5A by December 1941. -1 through -4 had only minor differences. Some were retrofitted with an ASV.II external dipole array as early as July 1941, but radar was not widely ...
August 12, 2020 - A vintage World War II era Consolidated PBY Catalina flying boat takes flight from the waters of Pearl Harbor in preparation for the 75th C...
These black and white photographs below were taken in 1950 by fame LIFE photographer Loomis Dean, who was invited aboard this luxury post-war conversion of a consolidated PBY Catalina, one of the most versatile airplanes used in the Second World War. According to Messy Nessy Chic, after the war, an entrepreneur by the name of Glenn Odekirk saw a new future for the roomy Catalinas as extreme ...
The free four-hour air show took place over St Aubins' Bay and included displays by the RAF Falcons parachute display team, a Fairey Swordfish biplane and a PBY Catalina flying boat.
The whole gallery is situated inside an old church, and the iconostasis is still visible from all three levels of the... 7. Perm Academic Theatre-Theatre. 73. Architectural Buildings. Perm Academic Theatre-Theatre is one of the oldest theatres of Perm region, as it was founded on the 14th of March 1927.
The Consolidated PBY Catalina was the U. S. Navy's most successful patrol flying boat of the war but naval aviators also used the PBY to attack ships at night, and to search for and rescue people stranded at sea. Following World War II, large seaplanes and flying boats suffered a mass extinction.
Perm, previously known as Yagoshikha and Molotov, is the administrative centre of Perm Krai in the European part of Russia. It sits on the banks of the Kama River near the Ural Mountains, covering an area of 799.68 square kilometres. Photo: Latitude, CC BY 3.0. Photo: Заболотских Сергей, CC BY-SA 3.0. Photo: A.Savin, FAL.
Answered: Starting from November 14, some departures of the trains #83/#84 (Северный Урал) and #11/#12 (Ямал) will skip all stops from Perm-2 to Chusovskaya. These trains offer the best times to arrive in Perm from Nizhny Novgorod. May I ask what are the...
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