By Paul Warren Wilson
Published: 21 April, 2006
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 Paul Warren Wilson
"Safety boat from Catalina, downwind to land"
They obviously hear us, they are very excited, they have come out here specially from Quito, but will they be much use if we get into difficulties?
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By Paul Warren Wilson
Published: 19 April, 2006
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"The Catalina In Her Element"
Marina di Venezia, Rimini, Riccione, Viareggio, Forte dei Marmi..... the place names sound like an extract from an up-market Italian holiday brochure. But the next two months promise to be no holiday. During July and August, we have no less than fifty landings to make, just off the beach at all the major Italian tourist resorts. The plan is to use the Catalina as a promotional vehicle for Peroni, arriving each morning as if by magic, showing off the ever-impressive lines of the aircraft (and the corporate logo) before touching down a few hundred yards off the beach, taxiing up to a mooring buoy and having our young Italian hostesses hand out free samples of Peroni's Nastro Azzurro beer from the rear fuselage blisters!
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By David Legg
Published: 1 January, 2001
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| A new work by Catalina Society historian David Legg.
Designed for the peacetime United States Navy in the mid 1930s, the Catalina was beginning to face obsolescence by the end end of that decade. However the advent of WWII brought rejuvenation for the type and PBYs served with distinction throughout the war. However, there is a substantial part of the Catalina story that in the past has only received a brief mention in other works and that is its operation in peacetime. | | | |
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Wonderful story beautifully written.
GW
No words when I see a Catalina Photo. Drops roll on my face. I love them, really.