Hello Allan ! USAAF B-29s plus TBFs (and I believe PB4Ys) conducted quit a few mining operations late in the war. Best Sean, OVER Sean Paul Milligan NAS...
Sean:I'm trying to hook him up with Dean Allard, retired head of the Naval Historical Center, for leads on that. Dr. Allard probably knows more about where...
Sean: Thanks for that info. Do you use Google.com for a search engine. It is amazingly fast. I put 7th Fleet, WWII, and Mining on it and in seconds it had...
A belated response to the interesting list below from Wynnum. Of those PBYs listed..... Bu48407 eventually ended up with Steward Davis of Long Beach and by...
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royangie@...
Apr 1, 2002 8:47 pm
I was ferrying PBY5 airplanes from Diego to Norva in 1942.. Cant remember who we were ferrying them for so just wondered who got them? First one had Ch'Bosn...
Roy, 04495 went from VP-24 to VP-71. George Winter flew in this one in SoPac in December of 1942. After that it made its way to Pensacola as a trainer as you...
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royangie@...
Apr 2, 2002 2:43 pm
Thanks Wynum on the VP24/VP71 days for the old plane..I think it is fitting that it did get to serve in the pacific...D.A.Campbell had returned from pacific...
Hello members. Jim Hollywood is looking for his shipmates... Larry Katz sent the following message.... I just got a phone call from a person called Jim...
Hello members. Recently I visited Tamiami airport where I saw two PBY's. One is owned by Charly Clements, see http://www.superthree.com/ He was installing a...
Hello PBY e-mail group members. We have some new members, welcome to the group! Please reply to this message to tell the 200+ members something more about your...
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royangie@...
Apr 3, 2002 3:25 am
Welcome Ralph...Maybe we will hit on some things in common...I was in the PBMl's and I think all the later versions as well. PBY's also including VP84 which...
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Piet van Warmerdam
doulos00@...
Apr 3, 2002 3:40 am
There are several factors to consider. I guess it is a transceiver antenna? Is the antenna going to be a permanent installation? What kind of antenna? For...
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royangie@...
Apr 3, 2002 12:24 pm
Sometime ago a friend of mine from VP84 PBY days along with his wife Linda (John Oubre) took a story I had written and put it in fancy colors complete with...
Piet's antenna lecture points out the usefulness of this PBY consortium - once again several hundred dollars worth of consulting and airplanes too! All for...
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Hermann Buttigieg
hermann@...
Apr 3, 2002 3:59 pm
Hello all, I just joined this forum, having come to know about it through the Yahoo propliners forum. Regrettably, Catalina activity is non-existent here in...
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blankens@...
Apr 3, 2002 4:16 pm
Welcome Hermann Long time since I was in Malta in the early 50s. Flying as radioman in a JD (Tow plane) from Port Lyautey. I still remember the "screech and...
Welcome Hermann! While this venue cannot guarantee a Catalina will visit Malta in the future, it will provide you with many instances replete with information ...
Welcome Hermann Nice to hear that you know CF-MIR. I flew in this 70 or so times after it came to the UK in 1985. Heijo also knows her well. David Legg:...
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Hermann Buttigieg
hermann@...
Apr 3, 2002 7:12 pm
Sorry to disappoint you David, but my knowledge of CF-MIR is through photographs after it came to MIACO. Are you aware of what became of this aircraft? Regards...
Hermann Not sure that I follow your question given my original comment but, to answer it anyway, CF-MIR became G-BLSC then VR-BPS/VP-BPS and suffered a ...
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Allan Hanna
AHanna@...
Apr 3, 2002 7:47 pm
We operated CF-MIR as N608FF in the late 60's, primarily in Northern Canada - I believe I last saw her in Val-d'Or, Quebec. ... From: David Legg...
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royangie@...
Apr 3, 2002 10:08 pm
Piet's antenna instructions were great. I once had this problem. Objective was to install three of them on three planes which were small whip antennas which...
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Bob Cleworth
jclewort@...
Apr 3, 2002 10:10 pm
Allen I second that motion Bob Cleworth...
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Eric McKay
ricmac@...
Apr 4, 2002 12:50 am
Hermann, Greetings from Perth, Western Australia. I trust you will enjoy the information that flows through this forum. Eric...
Greetings, PBY People, My name is Bob Prior. I live in Allentown, NY, USA. I have been an active member/volunteer at the National Warplane Museum for more than...
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Chandler, Paul
paul.chandler@...
Apr 4, 2002 6:15 am
Hermann, as David Legg mentioned CF-MIR is under restoration at Lee -on-Solent and I am lucky enough to be involved with this. To see the current state of the...
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Hermann Buttigieg
hermann@...
Apr 4, 2002 7:51 am
Hi Bob, What you must have seen in those days! Regards Hermann ... From: blankens@... To: PBY@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 6:16...
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Hermann Buttigieg
hermann@...
Apr 4, 2002 8:11 am
Paul, Thanks for the web site. I had photographed this Catalina in the UK, but had no idea it was "our" CF-MIR. Regards Hermann ... From: "Chandler, Paul"...
A CALL TO ARMS This attachment is a column in the DeLand Beacon wherein the anti-war hero calls the bombing of Nagasaki "a terrorist act beyond description"....
