Heavenly RV - Grumman HU16 Albatross - The Flying Winnebago - Boat In The Sky
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- Опубліковано 21 лип 2022
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All it took was a piston rod protruding through the cowling of John and Joyce Proctor’s Cessna Turbo 210 Centurion at low altitude over California’s treacherous Sierra Nevada to convince them. Convince them to give up flying? To hand in their wings? Naw! After skillfully guiding their ersatz glider between several craggy peaks, landing “dead-stick” on a dirt road and discussing the whole situation over a cup of coffee, the Proctors decided to buy a 1954 Grumman HU-16 Albatross seaplane, convert it into a motor home with wings and pontoons, and circumnavigate the Pacific Ocean!
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.
A marvelous story. An incredible adventure. It would be great if there was a documentary available for both parts of the story.
I was a flight mechanic in the usaf on the hu16 in the the air rescue is Philippines in Vietnam
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.
Awesome job, that's a flying dream!
Incredible.
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.
I'd give 10 years of my life to have 2 years of this