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PBY 5 Catalina circa 1964

Started by cthulhu77, April 06, 2009, 07:09:41 AM

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Mossie

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April 09, 2009, 06:36:15 AM
I'm pretty sure the aircrew are wearing the Sidcot Suit, which was developed for keeping aircrew warm at high altitude & low temperatures.  It would have been used regularly on Atlantic patrols in the winter.

The flight masks would have been worn often as the crew radios were contained within them, they had to put them on to communicate.  I'm pretty sure the Catalina was fitted up for Oxygen too.

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Chap

#31
April 09, 2009, 09:10:14 AM
The Soviets also used Catalinas during the war, I believe they even built them under license. There is a wonderful article on this in an old modeling magazine I have, I can scan it if anyone is interested. Great work so far Greg, it'll be neat to see this in another one of your water dioramas.

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#32
April 10, 2009, 02:01:28 AM
Model Aircraft Monthly ran a series of articles on Soviet Catalina's quite recently
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April 10, 2009, 10:24:16 AM

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#34
April 10, 2009, 05:57:31 PM
Very intriguing, Greg.  When I was a kid, there was an airbase not too far from here where a half dozen Cansoes were stationed.  I think they were water-bombers.
It sort of freaked me out to see them on solid land as the only Catalinas I had known about up until then were strictly floatplanes!

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