Catalina Flying Boat Sprays Its Way Into The Air
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Thanks for using a proper camera which makes the props look real. And thanks for the lack of 'music'.
amen
No worries -- that's what we do! ;-)
It's not the camera, it's the shutter speed. If it's in sync with the propeller speed it makes them look like they're not moving.
Oh but the "music" was there, thoroughly enjoyed it!
@@davidfrost801 haha me too
After riding so low in the water, it's an impressive sight to see the Catalina get on step and break free of the surface friction.
When I was a kid, our family made a day trip to Catalina island. Took the "Great White Steamship" in the morning, and I remember watching the PB-Y taxi down the ramp into San Pedro harbor on its morning run to the island. I thought that was pretty cool. Evidently, we fooled around too long on the island and missed the return trip aboard the ship. "That's too bad, I guess we'll have to take the seaplane home..." , my Dad said. What a fantastic way to end the day. I was probably 8 or so. I remember going to the back of the plane. The window next to my seat was under water! A wonderful memory, even 60 years later. Thanks for reminding me!
I remember seeing them in Catalina and San Pedro in the late 70s.
Awesome memory. Wish I had the opportunity that you had. I’m 65, and as a 13-14 year old I built a model of the Catalina, and as a WWII buff, especially the U.S. Navy in the Pacific, this plane and the F4U Corsair were my favorite aircraft.
This is a great story. Looking out through a window that goes underwater during takeoff would be an incredible experience. I wonder if the flight crew told the passengers that this would happen so they would not get alarmed. I also wonder how long the window stayed underwater during takeoff. This would certainly be an experience I would like to have. Maybe if I had one choice of a World War II plane to fly in it might be a Catalina.
1980 arriving by Boeing 737 at Val de Cães airport in Belém/PA Brazil, I was startled by a PBY Catalina coming out of the water onto land, it went up the ramp and taxied nearby, leaving several passengers, they were the salvation of the people of the Amazon, they landed anywhere river or lake!
😳🤪😵💫
@@joaoleaolyrio9217That would have been a PBY 5A, the amphibious model, able to land on water or on runways. The wheels retracted into the hull, and the pontoons on the wings stayed up when landing on a runway.
Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺
Wonderful to see that 'The Last African Flying Boat' has such a good home.
What a labor to pull free of the surface...like an osprey lifting off...wonderfully dramatic....thank you.
My late father-in-law flew in them for the RAAF during the war, working as a radio engineer and radio operator. I met someone recently whose father was also in one of the Australian squadrons and his job was to drive a boat ahead of the plane as it taxied for take off, creating water turbulence so that aircraft became "unstuck" more easily. This was the first time that I had heard of this happening but looking at this footage, it is easy to see why it would be desireable.
@@jonmarsden1366 what a great solution...and great remembrance. ty
@@jonmarsden1366I am not sure where in Australia you are located, but if you get the opportunity, take a trip to the Flying Boat Museum at Lake Boga near Swan Hill in Victoria. It's a beautiful Museum with a Frankenstein PBY Catalina cobbled together from Cats scrapped at Lake Boga after the war. The reason for the Museum being at Lake Boga is that it was the Top Secret Flying Boat Repair and Servicing Base in Australia and was far enough inland to be safe from air attack from Japanese carrier aircraft. We had learnt the hard way when flying boats evacuating from Java were attacked and many destroyed during an attack on Broome.
You can also check out the Museum online.
Mark from Melbourne Australia 🇦🇺
Thank you sir. @@jonmarsden1366
I never knew the Cat's sank that low in the water before takeoff.
Me neither. Looks so cool
They usually don't. Must have been packing some extra weight.
Poor camera angle for a video.
A great plane, the best of WW2
This looks as if loads have not been stowed properly and the c. of g. is at the maximum forward that's allowed. The doccie I mentioned in my earlier post shows absolutely none of what you noticed here - and it's the same aircraft!
Fresh water lake so less buoyancy than in salt water.👍
@@williampratt1066That makes sense. Thanks!
It is so powerful to watch a Catalina
lift off from water!
Absolutely beautiful piece of history. Wise to avoid salt water exposure.
Well,what a great fluke to land on this clip! I had the priveledge to fly in this great amphibian,twice! At Wanaka ,Easter 2002 and then 2006,when it did a touch and go,on lake Wanaka. What a thrill!! The noise of the hull through the water and the radials powering up again to lift off, was just deafening! Bloody amazing! Have flown in a CAC Mustang before this,but this is right up there!
Nice one!
Listen to that purr….
Its always remarkable to see something designed to fly to also be designed to float.
Art by engineering.
and a slide rule
This is the second type of aeroplane I flew in. I was 6 weeks old. It was from Lae to Rabaul in 1946.
One of my favorite airplanes. A very graceful looking bird.
Such a beautiful sight and sound.
It was!
It’s amazing enough watching a flying boat take off in the 21st century when flying is old news. Imagine the wonder people had for these back in the day when a plane was still a relatively new invention. When these were built many people would easily be able to recall the days before flight.
My husband and I flew in this Catalina in the nineties when we lived in Hamilton. We flew from Hamilton shadowing the Waikato river to Lake Taupo, where we landed, once stopped on the water we could open our hatch by our seat and dip our hands in the lake. We got a bit swamped by boaties and took off for Lochinvar Station, a Cesna shadowed us, filming, after a night at Lochinvar we once again did some touch and goes on the lake and then to Taupo airport for tourist flights, whilst we went to town for lunch. The weekend was a fabulously run event, the Catalina the main attraction, but also the guided tour around Lochinvar station was most interesting. A bucket list outing for us.
I've always thought the Catalina to be one of the most beautiful aircraft...so nice to see it in take off !
It really is!
I remember the first time I saw a drawing of one of these aircraft in a War Picture Library comic in 1958, and thinking how absolutely beautiful she was!
When I was stationed in Labrador in the early 1980s I had the chance of a flight in a Newfoundland Fire Service Canso. I’m not a pilot, but the skipper let me have the controls for ten minutes, after which he said “I can see why you’re not a pilot!” I was in the right hand seat while alighting on a lake and on the subsequent takeoff.
A day I’ll not forget!
I love Catalina airplanes! 🤩
Absolutely beautiful.
Miss seeing this aircraft around, thanks for sharing this clip
Glad you enjoyed it
A Catalina is a beautiful thing.
After the spitfire the Catalina, to me, is the most beautiful plane of WWII
Nothing like watching 80-year old perfection taking off!
They were great aircraft and did sterling service in the Pacific.... enormous range too...
Very nice! My father served in the RCAF at Pat Bay and Tofino during WW2. He was an aircraft mechn8c and also flew the B-24 and Cansos. He said the takeoff took a long time because the plane tended to porpoise. He wanted to fly a Catalina, but the US Army Air force personnel said no. There were a lot of US Army Air force aircraft passing through then; and blimps to.. That beauty is possibly a plane he worked on or flew. The title calls it a PBY Catalina, but the narrator says it's a Canso.
It IS a Canso, but title refers to Catalina because the majority of viewers have no idea what a Canso is, but many do know the name 'Catalina'
One of my favourite aircraft since my first sighting at age 4, 1962
Beautiful!!!
The Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, Hamilton, ON, CA, still has one that flies over my home on a regular basis during the summer months.
Your video has now convinced me to pony up, spend the money and go for a flight, which they usually tour over Niagara Falls!
I better take my camera with me, lol!
Thanks for posting!!!!!
Absolutely. A flight in a Cat is always great.
Always loved to see the Catalinas & also the associated yellow painted rescue boats from Rathmines on Lake Macquarie in Newcastle Australia. One of my strongest childhood memories.
Best sea plane ever built !
I remember watching them land in the channel and then power up the ramp onto the turnaround, so long ago!
My late father during WWWII based at a few lagoons along the South African Coast to do submarine hunting on the Catalina and Sunderland’s.
And that is what made me!!
I wonder if he met my father who flew from attoll to attoll in the Indian Ocean? He flew Catalinas for most of the war (RCAF 413 Squadron) and ended it in command of a Sunderland (RAF205 Squadron).
They sure do sit low in fresh water.
ONE of my all time favorite plains .
Alaska Coastal Airlines used to fly PBYs out of Juneau AK daily . As well as the Grumman Goose! One of my favorite childhood memories! Great airplane and a lot of history.
Thanks for the info!
I’m in Sitka, that’s where I would see both of these wonderous planes fly. As kids we’d get close to the turnaround or the ramps on Japonski island and we’d cover our ears and laugh so hard when they powered out of the water then rolled up the ramps. Thanks to historical machines for sparking that time up in our memories.
My father (RCAF 413 Squadron) flew a Lend-Lease PBY 5 Catalina from the end of the assembly line in Buffalo New York to Ceylon (Sri Lanka) in nine legs including a trans-Atlantic Ferry Command flight from Gander Newfoundland to Oban Scotland. That was before the Canadian built Cansos were in production. Dad said that the difference betweeen their Catalinas and the Cansos was the Cats had no wheeled undercarriage and could not land on runways. They were dollied in and out of the water like a sailboat at a yacht club.They patrolled the Indian Ocean from Koggala Ceylon.
It's common to hear people say this plane is ugly. I think it's beautiful. I had a model of one when I was a kid. I marveled at it often.
I think it's unique, and that makes it beautiful in it's own way
Afantastic sight and sound.
The "Black Cats" are my favorites! 😃
The Consolidated PBY Catalina was useful for reconnaissance but most famous for rescue missions. The greatest rescue mission was after the USS Indianapolis sank. The Catalina landed in heavy seas and picked up 56 survivors. They put as many as possible inside the plane and tied the rest to the wings, protecting them from exposure and shark attack and stayed afloat in the rough seas until a surface ship arrived and picked up the survivors. 56 Dumbos. The greatest mission of a Catalina during the war.
Wow!! . This is the 1st time I heard of this. Sounds like it would make a good movie .✌️✌️
Thanks for a fantastic video. Reading the history of the a/c, I realised that I must have seen this Cat when we were in Luxor in 1991. We were sat by the river when police launches cleared the traffic. A couple of minutes later a Catalina appeared and after a flyover, came in and touched down. After refuelling and taking some passengers took off again. Fantastic sight with the afternoon sun making rainbows out of the spray.
That would have been an awesome sight (on the Nile).
My father served as a CB in the American Samoas during World War II. He said that the native people would call the ships that landed people and supplies on shore were known by a native word meaning "boat". And the flying planes that landed on the water, which I assume were Consolidated PBY Catalinas were known to them as a "very good boat". A good name for them. They were very good boats indeed.
I did two short trips on this particular PBY5A in the late 1990s. The "A" is for "Amphibian" which means it uses water, or a runway, for take offs and landings. I actually sat in the port side blister. Which gives a view forward and aft.
What a tense moment watching that plane, which looks like it is sinking, take off and fly!
Yes, it sits surprisingly low in the water.
I've been fortunate enough to jump from ZK-PBY. We took off the bubble at the rear and had to step up to get out.
We got her in for a Parachute meet at Matamata in New Zealand. Can't remember the year but remember the jumps of course! 😀
I have a feeling I've seen some video of that....
It makes a grown man cry.
I've always thought it would be amazing to convert one of these into an "RV" and fly to different lakes and harbors around the world. No hotels, no boat trailers, no connecting flights, just the air and the sea.
I have has similar thoughts, though it would be outrageously expensive!
There was a company in USA that did just that, they bought ex Airforce ones after ww2 and con erted them into RV's
My Uncle was a pilot in the RAF during WWII but was sent to Pensecola, Florida, USA to train on Catalina Flying Boats. On his return he was eligible to wear both RAF and USAF wings. He was mainly on search and rescue missions for downed pilots along with searching for U-boats. I have a lovely embossed photo album that he was given by the USAF in Pensecola.
USAF wasn't formed until 1947. Pensacola is a Navy base.
My dad in the 1930s flew across the channel to Catalina on perhaps the same type of plane. It was his first flight as a child of 7 or 8 years old. Marvelous to see historical aircraft still in use today.
Beautiful sea plane... definitely an icon...❤❤❤
There was a Catalina on an airshow in Augsburg, Bavaria (Augsburg is not too far from Munich), I think they were from Britain, and showed "her" abilities as an amphibium, with landing gear.
I thought I'd do them a favour and bought a coffee mug from them - and it turned out it was leaking!.
I wrote them "Lucky that it is the mug and not the plane that is leaking, that would be a bigger issue".
Really awesome to watch. Thank you!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
What a beautiful machine.
We agree!
I swear that I could hear the pilot telling the guy on the yacht to get out the f*ckin' way.
I loved these planes as a kid! I made a scale model of one. Then in high school I learned that and older member of the polo swim & tennis club flew them! He took me and my girlfriend up in a 185--drove us to the airport in a Porche 911. Hearing about flying the PBY was such a thrill.
Later, in my career pursuits, I learned that Daniel Savitsky--who "wrote the book" on planing boat engineering, worked on developing the "seaplane coefficients" way back when. He was a wonderful generous person and a super popular lecturer. Any time he was to speak at the NY SNAME metropolitan section meetings, we had a packed house and you needed to reserve your dinner early!
I love the old PPY. I rode in one from Juneau to Sitka, Alaska back in 1962 to attend University of Sheldon Jackson. The window leaked salt water but it got us there with Alaska Coastal Air.
My dad flew in RAAF 11 Squadron in Catalinas late in WW2. He was flying at the time they had been converted to night time flying and were painted black, hence the name "Black Cats" for dusk to dawn patrols. He did have hearing problems in his 70s that he attributed to his hours in the Catalina. My research indicated that he was one of the lucky ones to have survived as the attrition rate was very high. The RAAF had their highest casualty losses from these aircraft in the south Pacific losing 322 men.
A real treasure.
Beautiful Aircraft.
What a beautiful aircraft, my Father flew Cansos out of Koogala, Ceylon (Sri Lanka) from '42 to '44, in RCAF 413 Squadron.
The PBY Catalina is one of the finest aircraft ever designed. Since it was intended for long flights with long loitering time, the fuel tanks are quite large. To fill it up (with fuel) to the fuel-caps, you'll be spending over $12,000 USD in 2013.
The Catalina is one of the most beautiful aircraft ever produced. It was the aircraft that spotted the Japanese making the US victory possible at Midway.
My father was a radio operator on a USN PPY operating in the South Pacific during WWII. I have many photo's of his squardon but this is the first time I saw one taking off.
Really got me thinking, you had your choice of the Great White Steamship, the seaplane, or a "water taxi" from the same terminal in San Pedro. The taxi was basically a launch, I'd guess something like 35 feet or thereabouts. The island is around 25 or so miles from San Pedro harbor, with some extremely deep water in between. (The Redondo trench) Made for rough water in small craft. I also recall that the Catalina had a hatch on top of the nose where you entered the aircraft when it was afloat. Like going down into the cabin of a sailboat or storm cellar. You would bend at the waist and move aft, going right under the cockpit. And yeah, the water was really ripping past the window, even when it was up "on plane" like a ski boat. The weird thing was that we didn't fly back to the terminal. We landed at Long Beach airport, and got a cab back to the terminal where the car was. Must've been heavy ship traffic in the harbor, I suppose. Thanks for the responses, I feel like I was a very lucky kid.
Such a beautiful aircraft. So art deco.
The Cat is an awesome airplane.
Incredible, I worked with an ex pilot of one of these in the Cook Islands.
He told me stories of his time with the crew skipping just over the waves up in the Pacific.
Great to see this plane take off.
Very cool!
Was lucky to fly on this beauty about 20 years ago at the Wanaka airshow. Only got to do a touch and go but still fantastic. The other thing was had a Cat veteran onboard with his son discussing how different things were to when he flew on them. He went silent as the engines started and you could see in his eyes he had transported 60years into the past and his youth.
My RCAF Reserve unit in Vancouver, BC had three of these, all servicable, parked across from our main hanger. There were also 6 P51s anda Lancaster (Not serviceable - just sitting bleeding oil from it's 4 Merlin engines. This was in 1961.
Beautiful
It’s the f’in Catalina Wine Mixer!!!
I saw the plain docked in Taupō when I was there in June / July for work. Very impressive. I am from Bellville, near Cape Town, South Africa.
That was June / July of 2023.
A friend of mine flew PBYs in the Aleutians during WWII in the US Navy. He said when operating on the ocean, you go thru the first swell taking off. The props would surge from all the water they went though. After that, you get up on the step and ride over the rest. No wonder so few remain after all the salt water they operated in.
I've always wanted one since I was a kid. I built the model. I envisioned myself in the Bahamas diving for lobsters while my girlfriends sunbathed. Oh well.
Nice dream! :-)
1980 arriving by Boeing 737 at Val de Cães airport in Belém/PA Brazil, I was startled by a PBY Catalina coming out of the water onto land, it went up the ramp and taxied nearby, leaving several passengers, they were the salvation of the people of the Amazon, they landed anywhere river or lake!
Pilots loved this boat, whether they were drunk or not, no one could tell as they drifted and paddled about.
Fun fact: It had more speed in the water than in the air. ☆
When I was a kid in the 50's we'd visit my Mom's family in Pensacola and swim at the Navy Base beach. Saw hundreds of "splash 'n go's" by the PBY's in the Bay each summer.
Nice!
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness."- John Keats
My dad was a flight engineer on a Catalina, serving from the Aleutians to Midway to Tinian.
In June 1957 I flew on a commercial flight in a Canso from Vancouver to Ocean Falls, a distance of about 350 miles up the coast. It was a sunny day and because I was sitting near the bubble I had a very good view all the way. Great Trip. But my goodness that was a slow flying aircraft.
Beautiful!
Thank you! Cheers!
Dad flew 5s and later 5a, '42-'44. We still eat using the silverware he scavenged from the decommissioning of his after his first tour in 1942. I have the yoke on my wall in the garage. Great footage!
Thats the plane my grandfather learned to fly in - the man that taught him was Laurie Young, thanks for the upload.
Beautiful...
There was a facility here in Australia in country Victoria, called Lake Boga. A number of planes were fixed, maintained & the like here, from 1942 to1947. Lake Boga is just 160km from where I live. They have a museum called “Home of the Catalina” dedicated to this time.👍🏼🇦🇺🇳🇿
Spectacular!
Just magnificent!
I grew up in Northwest Territories, Canada. Cansos were used in fire fighting.
These planes would always pass over town prior to landing, to give us a show.
Stunning.🙂
Thank you! Cheers!
WOW! Beautiful!
It really is!
Did a skydive out this fantastic aircraft in NZ many years ago 😀😀😀
Wow....fantastic
I did a seaplane trip there a few years ago - magical
Brother’s voice sounds like Mark Felton’s. Touch of class, appropriate for a vid showing the PBY.
Wonderful!
Many thanks!
I sat in a Cat at a show at Duxford. The engineer sat high up between the engines. I did read something in a war memoirs that after the war finished. The Cats that had been flying from Ceylon ( now Sri Lanka) over the Indian Ocean: all 24 of them had their hulls bashed in and sunk in the bay. Makes you want spit. Gpx
The Cat has an aura like no other plane
Excellent video!
Thank you very much!
This is awsome!
Queen Charlotte Airways had a couple of Cansos on the BC coast around 1952, as well as Stranrauers. The vis from the pax seats in the gun blisters was said to be world-beating.
Amazing that such an odd concept and strange looking machine could make such an important and utterly useful contribution to the Allied war effort!🇺🇸👍