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This is the PBY-5A Catalina, a product of the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation and a WW2 Amphibian.
Powered by 2 (1,200hp) Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 Twin Wasp radial piston engines it can gain an altitude of 15,800ft and a maximum speed of 196mph.
As you can expect by the word amphibian it can land on water with conventional landing gear still raised and the wingtips lowered to become pontoons.
During the WW2 period it would be armed with the following.
3x 30cal Machine Guns (2 in the nose turret and 1 in the ventral hatch at the tail)
2x 50cal Machine Gun (1 in each waist blister)
4,000lb of Bombs, Depth Charges, Torpedoes were also made available if needed.
But as you can see this 1 lacks any armament as there is no nose turret and the side blisters are complete glazing.
Taken 20/07/14 at The Farnborough International Airshow
Powered by 2 (1,200hp) Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 Twin Wasp radial piston engines it can gain an altitude of 15,800ft and a maximum speed of 196mph.
As you can expect by the word amphibian it can land on water with conventional landing gear still raised and the wingtips lowered to become pontoons.
During the WW2 period it would be armed with the following.
3x 30cal Machine Guns (2 in the nose turret and 1 in the ventral hatch at the tail)
2x 50cal Machine Gun (1 in each waist blister)
4,000lb of Bombs, Depth Charges, Torpedoes were also made available if needed.
But as you can see this 1 lacks any armament as there is no nose turret and the side blisters are complete glazing.
Taken 20/07/14 at The Farnborough International Airshow
Image size
4608x2592px 2.89 MB
Make
FUJIFILM
Model
FinePix S4800
Shutter Speed
1/128 second
Aperture
F/10.0
Focal Length
7 mm
ISO Speed
64
Date Taken
Jan 6, 2013, 11:05:24 PM
Sensor Size
6mm
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I see that the plane is named "Miss Pick Up". I suspect that several Catalina's have been painted up like this. My Father C/MSgt. William Henry
York USAF Retired, was crew chief of a PBY-5A. That plane, operating out of England during WW2, was a Canadian built Catalina with USAAF markings and a RAF Coastal Command livery. It was used by the Air Force for ASR ops, and worked in conjunction with an RAF Air-Sea Rescue launch (the Thornycroft 67' I think). The plane picked up airman from both sides of the war. If memory serves, the rescue launch was radio call signed Eagle, while the Catalina was Albatross. I have several pictures of it including one taken by her relief crew from the life rafts as she was sinking in the far North Atlantic Ocean after ditching. He paid a fellow airman two bottles of scotch whiskey to paint a Vargas-esque reclining blond, with the name "Miss Pick Up" on the nose. I also have a picture of him and his crew squatting around a map in front of the nose art. (A typical official photographer posing of air crews at the time) You would not happen to know whom this plane belongs to, would you. I would be most grateful for any information.
York USAF Retired, was crew chief of a PBY-5A. That plane, operating out of England during WW2, was a Canadian built Catalina with USAAF markings and a RAF Coastal Command livery. It was used by the Air Force for ASR ops, and worked in conjunction with an RAF Air-Sea Rescue launch (the Thornycroft 67' I think). The plane picked up airman from both sides of the war. If memory serves, the rescue launch was radio call signed Eagle, while the Catalina was Albatross. I have several pictures of it including one taken by her relief crew from the life rafts as she was sinking in the far North Atlantic Ocean after ditching. He paid a fellow airman two bottles of scotch whiskey to paint a Vargas-esque reclining blond, with the name "Miss Pick Up" on the nose. I also have a picture of him and his crew squatting around a map in front of the nose art. (A typical official photographer posing of air crews at the time) You would not happen to know whom this plane belongs to, would you. I would be most grateful for any information.