Sunday, April 7, 2024

Your Sunday Morning Prop Noise

A PBY Catalina:



This is, of course, an amphibian version. The first models were seaplanes and the Navy took a very dim view of flying them over land.

Note that there is someone in the mechanic's station in the pylon for the parasol wing.

1 comment:

  1. That's down by Shellharbor! And the guy in the pylon is the flight engineer. He has instruments up there and controlled the mags and other things.

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