It I hit the lotto, tricking out an Albatross or PBY Catalina as an airborne RV and circling the globe has always been one of my top my dreams. Would be perfect, because they always reommend that it you hit a big lotto you should pick up and disappear for quite a long while 🤔
As much as I loved reading about the PBY's exploits during the Aleutian Islands campaign, it was watching a movie called, "Flight from Ashiya" that I fell in love with the HU-16.
Not the first flying boat RV in the late 1930s Convair of San Diego built a prototype that they called a flying yacht. Also in the 1950s and '60s several surplus World War II Catalina flying boats were converted to flying RVs.
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A marvelous story. An incredible adventure. It would be great if there was a documentary available for both parts of the story.
Awesome job, that's a flying dream!
It I hit the lotto, tricking out an Albatross or PBY Catalina as an airborne RV and circling the globe has always been one of my top my dreams. Would be perfect, because they always reommend that it you hit a big lotto you should pick up and disappear for quite a long while 🤔
I’ve said that same thing to myself for years lol take my millions, build out an awesome flying boat and take a tour of the world.
As much as I loved reading about the PBY's exploits during the Aleutian Islands campaign, it was watching a movie called, "Flight from Ashiya" that I fell in love with the HU-16.
I heard Mike Patey has just purchased an albatross to do exactly the same and convert it to an rv
I was a flight mechanic in the usaf on the hu16 in the the air rescue is Philippines in Vietnam
Incredible.
I'd give 10 years of my life to have 2 years of this
Not the first flying boat RV in the late 1930s Convair of San Diego built a prototype that they called a flying yacht. Also in the 1950s and '60s several surplus World War II Catalina flying boats were converted to flying RVs.