The WWII Flying Home With a Kitchen and Bar - PBY Catalina ‘Landseaire'
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In the 1950s, The Landseaire was the ultimate go-anywhere adventure machine. Based on a sturdy WWII-era PBY Catalina flying boat and fitted with beds, bathrooms, kitchens and even deployable boats, they were a long-range home in the sky like no other. But what happened? Where did they go and for one family, how did it all end so tragically?
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00:00 - Introduction
01:47 - Visiting a PBY Catalina
03:43 - Origins of the Consolidated PBY Catalina
04:34 - Design & War Service
05:57 - The Original Landseaire
09:12 - What Happened to the Original Landseaire?
10:01 - The Kenndals Landseaire
10:45 - Kenndals Round-The-World-Trip
11:42 - A Near-Death Escape
14:44 - Remains of the Kenndal Landseaire
15:31 - Where Are They Now? - Наука та технологія
My grandpa had a PBY when I was a kid in Loxahatchee, FLA. We used it to camp in and used to fly to Puerto Rico and the carribean on weekends. It was some fun times.
That's awesome. What an adventure.
Wow!
What was its tail number? All those flight plans are recorded, be cool to actually see the flight plans he filed eh?
That's amazing!!!!!!! I wish I could of went onto something like that
@@markrix I'm curious too
So that's homes on wheels, tracks, rotor blades and floating wings. Can't wait for your coverage of whatever weird space rocket home some madman eventually cooks up :D
Haha people always say my videos are eclectic and unpredictable but tbh the thing that always unites them is that I love a good mobile home!
@@CalumRaasay @Foo-Foo Cuddlypoops There's gotta' be something on tracks.
There has to be someone who made a camper out of a train
Or maybe a submoble
@@wintryhard submoble I like that word
5:14 I'm sure you meant 14 cylinders there. Also the PBY used the twin-row Twin Wasp engine, the Wasp was only a single-row 9 cylinder engine.
😭 I did
I had a major WHAT moment when I heard 4 cylinder engines, I'm very glad to see this clarified since I was sure it was wrong.
@@spacecase13 Yeah, a radial engine with a single-digit *even* number of cylinders is pretty much unheard of.
4 cyl, 1200 bhp, nice engine
👍🏻😂😉
Great episode 🙏🏼
Pratt and Whitney wasp is 9 cylinders, well atleast mine is, it’s a 1340 though
My grandfather flew the PBY during the war as part of the US Navy 3rd Emergency Rescue Squadron. He was part of a small group of Army Air Corps pilots that were loaned to the Navy to fly PBYs because the Navy didn’t have enough multi-engine trained pilots. They hold the distinction of earning both Army and Navy wings.
Thank you for this amazing video and story. He would have loved seeing on of the “old girls” getting a makeover.
Wow, what an amazing career your grandfather had. Must have had a fair few stories!
I've always loved the idea of vehicles with something you can call 'living quarters' (not just a bunk behind a cab) where you wouldn't really expect. Planes, landcrawlers etc. Something post-apocalyptic about them.
EXACTLY! That’s honestly the thing that interests me the most- and drives me of the ideas for videos I have!
They still take form today.
I remember first seeing this beauty watching Johnny Quest as a kid.. the quest family would use it to fly around the world on amazing adventures &I always found the idea of such an antique plane being included in such a techno futurist series that included space adventure &virtual reality quite interesting.
Always wanted to see someone do it with a sort of "personal airship" unfortunately that is something we never got to see
For anyone who lived through WWII, I suspect the late '40s and early '50s probably did seem pretty post-apocalyptic.
Great one, Calum. Last PBY I saw was the one that killed my mayor, 24 years ago. I heard about a failed water landing on the radio and went down to watch it on the way home, not knowing at the time that the mayor of Southampton had been killed. I’d gone along to look as I knew my parents had spent a day trip to Le Touquet on that exact aircraft a couple of years earlier when members of its supporting ‘Catalina Society’.
Christ, never heard of that story. What a shame
The Catalina mix-up
This is sort of a 'spirtual sequel' to my recent helihome video, so I thought I'd keep the same kind of theme and style going, hope you enjoy! What do you think would be the best aircraft to turn into a flying home? I think the Catalina is hard to beat!
I'll post all the scans & documents I found on my patreon: patreon.com/calumraasay
I don't know what would be best but Ekranoplan would be awesome with decent space for luxurious interior :D The noise might be an issue though! :D
Best flying home? How about a powered helium balloon type aircraft. More modern lighter than air ships have many advantages over fixed or rotary wing craft. Would be an interesting 'air yacht' concept.
Short Sunderland? Not quite as elegant but pretty roomy.
The only rival of the Landseaire I can think of is the one-off Dornier Do-24 ATT.
I suspect that it may have been a Landseaire that featured in the Documentary "The Last African Flying Boat" produced by BBC/PBS and available on UA-cam...
Many years ago I lived in Hawaii on Oahu. I saw a PBY Catalina sitting on the ramp at HNL airport next to the CAP Hangar. I was a member of the CAP. An old retired USAF pilot was authorized to fly this aircraft and him and I flew from HNL-ITO(Hilo) back. I was thrilled and now I'm 71yo and it still is a great memory for me. I may not remember what I did yesterday but that memory is still alive in my brain.
Sweet baby jesus! Calum! I have been dreaming about what it would be like to own a Catalina camper plane since I first saw a Catalina in a Flying Tigers comic when I was a kid. This right here is the video I'd forgotten I desperately wanted. Thank you!
Honestly the PBY will always be my favorite aircraft. I remember playing COD WAW and when the level "Blackcats" came on I was hooked. If I had a major excess of money I'd buy one and learn to fly it.
Yes! I replayed blackcats when making this video. Good nostalgia!
These "Flying Vacation Homes" always remind me of the Millennium Falcon, though I'm sure the Falcon had "roomier" quarters. Just the idea of being able to live and travel around to who-knows-where. The kid in me can't help but love the adventure vibes it gives off.
BTW, just found this channel, great video; it made me a sub
In other words in Star Citizen you'd be an Anvil Carrack owner.😉
Nah....more a Razor Crest......but less boxy.
The Millennium Falcon is actually not that big. Any modern jumbo jet would be roomier.
@@magnetospin Roomier than a PBY though. Roomy enough that it had hallways! Still, not exactly palatial.
The Millennium Falcon was a cargo vessel first. Not only did it have an internal storage room but its forward facing prongs would latch on to cargo barges for heavier loads.
Lando converted the Falcon into his personal yacht, sacrificing some storage compartments for an expanded captain’s quarters and a walk-in closet and having a luxury escape pod fitted into the cargo prongs.
Also, Corellian starships, no matter what size and class, are known for their rugged reliability and modular design for personal customization.
Ahh, your videos, from the quality research to the fascinating storytelling, are just incredible. Thank you, Calum!
Thank you Daniil, really appreciate that!
That father is a goddamned HERO, crawling to the controls, shot and bleeding out, starting the plane and getting his family to safety.
he was also the fool that brought them there in the first place
like if your dad tries to sell you on the idée on flying to the middle east for a vacation what els wood you call him?
@@thefrenchbastard1646 I'd call him entitled, privileged and ignorant on the reality of the world outside of comforts and protections of money. So I guess nothing has changed with our ruling class then over these many...MANY years...
@@thefrenchbastard1646you guys are confusing today's geopolitical environment with the world back then
@QauntamCairo Isn't great to be a American and filthy rich something poor dumb COMMUNIST in their envious of the wealthy will never achieve! God Bless Capitalism!
My grandfather was that hero. The plane only landed in that area due to an engine issue. My uncle was working on the engine when the shooting started. The whole group was held hostage presumed to be spies.
There is quite a bit more to the story, for instance, my grandfather was not the only one shot during that attack. Also, one night while being held, they were awaken in the middle of the night, driven out in a truck to an isolated area, and unloaded by a group of men with rifles. Thankfully, another vehicle showed up in the nick of time with someone appearing important, as my mother described (she is the teenaged girl in some of the photos), and they were loaded up again and taken back to the camp.
The saudi arabia wreck is here: Lat: 28.090827° Long: 34.608600°
I built a model of Jacques Cousteau's PBY as a kid and fell in love with them. Owning one would've been amazing!
Before I watch this I have to confess that owning my own PBY, converting it into a flying house, and flying all throughout the south pacific has been a dream of mine since I was a kid in the 1950s.
9:44 "Tuckson" Arizona made me giggle. It's pronounced "Too-sahn." Great video! How amazing it would be to have a luxury converted PBY Catalina, not to mention how awesome it would be to have an old war bird like this period!
Tucsan is pronounced Tuck sun, Kansas is pronounced Can-saw, and Arkansas is pronounced Are-Kan-zess.
I need at least ONE mispronunciation
U.S. born and raised... I was embarrassing-years old when I finally realized that there were NOT two separate cities in AZ, Too-sawn, and Tuck-sun!
@@Journeyman.71 Don't feel bad. Some adults don't realize there is a Kansas City Kansas and a Kansas City Missouri which are right next to each other and basically the same place, even though "downtown" is entirely in Missouri.
@@CreeperOnYourHouse It's okay. If you ever want to bewilder Americans, simply invoke the City of London, which is different from, but resides entirely within, London, which is the capital of England, which is a country within a country, UK, which also has its capital in the same place. Oh, and the Queen cannot enter the City of London without the permission of the Lord Mayor...who is not the Mayor of London. Fun times!
I don't know if it was an original Landseaire, but just last week, a PBY yacht flew into Oshkosh WI for EAA Airventure, and I got a chance to crawl all over the inside of it. The lounge at the back with the huge lexan bubble window is particularly awesome.
I saw it at Sun N Fun a few weeks ago
Just to point one little thing out... the step in the hull is specifically designed to make takeoff easier. Simply put a flying boat wants to stay on the water, that step in the hull lessens this by a lot, making it far easier to takeoff from water. This is why it is a staple of hull design in flying boats.
Yeah I found a really cool article all about how the two-step hull. facinating feature.
I met a man who flew PBYs in WW2. He and a friend swore that if they survived the war, they’d fly together around the world. That’s exactly what they did. They bought a PBY and started off with their wives to circle the globe. The wives got bored, and didn’t stick with them for the entire journey, but the two pals finished the circumnavigation. I loved hearing his stories!
I'd so take this over the Helihome! Way more versatile, even with the longer landing areas required. Brilliant work, love your videos and production style.
Same
With some integrated solar panels in the wings in case I wanna live in one spot for a long time without using gas 😂
my great grandpa Carroll Burgess Jones won the distinguished flying cross and the Navy cross for commanding a PBY Catalina squadron in WW2, i am glad to see that these beautiful machines get use after the war too (sad to see many of their fates though)!
Wow, small world, My dad flew the Catalina’s as part of RAF air sea rescue during ww2
Excellent video on a Catalina development I had no idea existed. We still have a flying PBY-5 here in New Zealand, based at Ardmore, south of Auckland. Lovely old girl, I have been up in her a couple of times. The hull of a PBY which was 'parts donor' for her ended up down at Classic Flyers in Tauranga, and over a decade ago I was one of the volunteers who dissembled the rear-most part of the fuselage to create an indoor exhibit ... it was quite surreal drilling out all those 1/8" rivets (with the perished remains of rubberised canvas sealing the joints between plates) and thinking this was a Real Catalina I was working on, not the Airfix kit of one which as a kid I had thought was the nearest I would ever get to the real thing.
This is very interesting. Probably about 10 years ago. I worked as a Fueller at an airport in Washington state. A Catalina came in with a family and they had it all set up as a flying RV.
I wonder if they had plans to go on a vacation to the shores of Saudi Arabia
Are you sure that wasn't a Grumman HU-16? John Procter out of Newberg, OR had a Albatross restored to function like an RV.
The Catalina is easily one of my favorite aircraft of any time period and of any type. It is great to see when someone talks about the non-military aspects of this remarkable bird, since the military side is what people tend to focus on.
Yeah I did originally intend to outline the millitary history but honestly it would really take a whole video to justify and I wante to, like you say, focus on something other than the WWII aspect.
@@CalumRaasay For what its worth, I thought this video worked very well. While the military history of this plane is a great topic, it isn't really necessary for what was discussed.
Also to my chagrin, I have to admit, I never knew that 4 engine Catalina existed. My jaw literally dropped when I saw that. So I have to take my hat off to you for that one.
Keep up the good work and I will keep watching.
Why wouldn't you "focus on it" considering that's what essentially it was designed to do? Super weird.
@@redraiderrider3289 I shall put it in simple terms for your simple mind; Everyone talks about the common talking points. Those are not the only talking points. So it is good that at least some people focus on those less common talking points.
Understand? Probably not.
edit: your name and question reminded me that my local high school utterly fails at educating people (Red Raiders are their team). Remedial classes would benefit both you and them.
My grandfather was that hero. The plane only landed in that area due to an engine issue. My uncle was working on the engine when the shooting started. The whole group was held hostage presumed to be spies.
There is quite a bit more to the story, for instance, my grandfather was not the only one shot during that attack. Also, one night while being held, they were awaken in the middle of the night, driven out in a truck to an isolated area, and unloaded by a group of men with rifles. Thankfully, another vehicle showed up in the nick of time with someone appearing important, as my mother described (she is the teenaged girl in some of the photos), and they were loaded up again and taken back to the camp.
Yeah OK.
I had the pleasure of photographing a Catalina in NZ a few years ago when I was living there and worked at the local airport.
We had one fly in for an air show. Got to have a private tour of it. Best thing ever
Kinda reminds me of the “Sea Duck” from the old Disney cartoon TailSpin!
Excellent work as always Calum! 😎
Pretty sure the Sea Duck WAS a Catalina.
@@Devin_Stromgren Conwing L-16 (custom version), actually (a nonexistent model which is a mashup of a few different airframes, including the Catalina, Grumman Goose, and Fairchild C-82 Packet.)
Same
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Dude, the Wasp radial engines are NOT 4 cylinder, they have 14 cylinders.
Cessna's and tiny planes are 4 cylinder.
It didn't have an "AM/FM transmitter" It was a simple radio RECEIVER.
The Lucite dome was 1000 pounds about $2600 dollars at the time !
Hey, great video! First heard about the Catalina from War Thunder, and being a bit outdoorsy myself I had the thoughts of turning it into an air camper, then a few years later I find out that absolutely happened (thanks to this video)
Being in Arizona, the Pima air and space museum is a wonderful trip, as well as Kartchner Caverns, Tombstone (very much a tourist trap but still fun), colossal cave and a few others are very much worth the visit if you come back!
(By the way, Tucson is pronounced too-saan)
@@edwardfletcher7790 PBY Catalina was powered by two 14 cyl Twin wasps, not double wasps. Double wasp was 18 cyl. This video simply calls them wasp which is also wrong.
@@londonalicante Isn't that what I said ?
Should do the story about Jimmy Buffett's plane getting shot up.
Surprised that there was no mention of Jacques Cousteau's PBY Catalina.
Well done video.
Never got to see a PBY like this, but as a kid me and my dad passed by a grumman goose moored on a small lake behind a beach house. My dad pulled over and me and him walked over and met the family who owned it. They gave me the full tour. Later on id play uncharted and it was an instant realization that it was the exact flying boat i had been in as a kid. Thanks for another great video
We used to attend the huge annual fly-in and air show in Oshkosh, Wisconsin in the 80s. One aircraft that attended several of the years we were there was a Catalina that had been converted into a flying luxury yacht with a full bar and a slick black-and-purple paint scheme. You could pay a couple bucks to tour it, or a couple hundred to attend cocktail parties onboard. One late afternoon, we were surprised to see the custom PBY's nose suddenly lift up in the air as the plane stood for several moments on its tail. Shortly, the nose wheel touched down, followed by a stream of sheepish partygoers whose weight in the aft section of the plane had overbalanced it.
Just to add to the pile of praise: you made another wonderful video on something I knew nothing about before. Thank you! 🙂
Thank you Andreas! Really appreciate that
The Catalina flying boat has the look of a boat with wings while other flying boat look like a plane that had the bottom of it's fuselage shaped like a boat.
There was even a design done for a Hercules flying boat, but lack of interest stopped it going further.
I've been fascinated by the Landseaire for years, so it was exciting to see this on my feed! Great job digging up all these details, including that dramatic failed voyage!
I mean in a way, it really was an adventure of a lifetime.. Just not quite the one they expected! What an extraordinary story for an extraordinary aircraft!
I pride myself on aircraft history, and this one passed me by completely! Thanks Calum, another great value video.
I always loved the Catalina! You can land on land or water! You can stay in the air for over 20 hours and it looks cool! I would fantasize about taking family and friends out to deserted Islands. Wish there were alot more still left.
Knocked it out of the park as always, Calum. Great work, great content, please keep on doing what you're doing!
Appreciate that Jeremy! Thanks for watching 🙏
Thank you Calum. Ever since I was a child I've thought about flying the world in my very own flying boat yacht. To see those gorgeous interiors had me salivating! I want one!
Thank you so much for putting this piece together. My brother and I put together a US Navy Consolidated PBY Catalina model years ago, and I always thought that it was such an innovative and graceful aircraft.
Such a beautiful plane! I love the flying home concept, but that story of getting shot at was hard. Luckily the plane kept the crew and family safe.
love to see a video from you! i've been here since you had a few thousand subs, now you are even verified! Great job Calum!
especially love the easter eggs that you put in your videos :D
Haha thank you Sayan, really appreciate the support all this time! The Easter eggs are also my favourite bit 😆
Thanks, Calum. One of the earliest memories of my dad and I building a plastic model is of my PBY. We saw them in San Diego in the 1950's. Thank you for re-awakening the memory.
Thank you once again Donald - I don't know why UA-cam is so bad at showing me these super thanks! Really appreciate it.
I built a really nice Airfix model of a PBY-5A almost 60 years ago. I think it's a great design and a beautiful airplane. Thanks for your video, I learned a couple new things about it.
I think one of these was at a local airport when I was very young. Mid 70s to early 80s. It was covered and in disrepair. I remember being amazed at it's size and shape but being too young to really appreciate it importance. It sold at some point and disappeared. No idea where it went. I remember people that knew about it saying a local guy owned it and travelled the world in it. They said it had a washer and dryer and said it was basically a flying RV. I'll ask around and see what I can find.
That’s what I’d do, live anywhere in the world and fly there to do it 😂
Bravo! Excellent video! Perfect length, Great history, amazing presentation. Your last video with the helicopter was so good, and this is right up there with it! I fully enjoyed the last 18 minutes spent watching this video.
Thank you Parker! Really appreciate it
I can remember the PBY Catalina flying boats at the old Air Force base on Lake Macquarie in New South Wales Australia. Wonderful aircraft!
Thanks for continuing to come up with rare and unusual stories. I never knew that the Catalina ever had such a conversion, let alone the tragic story that one had taken part in.
If I ever get fortune I will get a air yacht
If you want to look into more amazing live aboard flying boat houses Calum, you might want to look into Martin and osa Johnson’s ‘spirit of africa’, a story in a time when africa was still vastly unexplored. Their book is amazing. I’m pretty sure the Disney movie ‘up’ took a lot of inspiration from what they did with their sikorsky.
Came across your videos and couldn’t stop watching. This channel deserves at least one million subscribers - the amount of time and research you spend on this material must be truly impressive
Don't think this would have got very far with FOUR-cylinder engines! They were actually fourteen-cylinder radials,, having two banks of seven cylinders, one in front of the other, and offset by half a cylinder's width to provide air cooling to all cylinders.
One of the stupidest misreads I’ve ever made 😅
So…helicopter & amphibious RVs. Can I predict the next video will be the land/water RVs we’ve seen a few of? Can I then request a video on submarine yachts? That will certainly have to include the strange tragic case. :-(
Wow!
One of your best, Calum.
Really, really well done! I adore the Catalina
Thanks Rex! One of the coolest aircraft ever
Tucson isn't pronounced with a hard C, it's more like "two-sawn"
I was side gunner on this bad boy on April 3, 1945. Shot down a couple of Zeros and a few PT boats then sunk a whole Japanese merchant fleet before I saved a couple of drowning marines.. man it was a tough misson on veteran mode.
Such a shame there will likely never be another golden age of flight ever again. Creating plane parts is still relatively cheap, but the certification process tenfolds the ticket price over physical cost, and if you aren't the OEM then you may as well forget trying to remanufacture previously discontinued parts
I just flew on a 1943 PBY-5A Catalina two days ago, we flew to a lake and landed in it, such an amazing aircraft!
So cool, I'd love to fly on one one day!
Why Suadis got to ruin everything?
No its not the planes fault, its gravity's fault.. dood shoulda kept some of the PBYs amendment if he wanted to just globe trot.. bad Captain.. 2 of 5 stars.
It's what Muslims do best!
Or maybe some dipshit millionaire should consider the optics of a military aircraft landing on Saudi shores lmfao
Israelis 😊
Try again. Bedouins mistook them for Israeli commandos. It's Israelis who ruin everything.
Wow, this documentary is absolutely fascinating! The Landseaire is a true marvel of engineering. It's amazing how technology and creativity can come together to create something so extraordinary. Definitely an airplane to fall in love with.
The Catalina PBY has always been my favorite thanks for the video.
Fascinating and Quality as always.
EXCELLENT !
Thank You so much for Producing this !
I was going to be a mechanic on a PBY back in the 80's. A friend of mine's dad was trying to get an air taxi service going in the Caribbean. He had found one working PBY, two for parts, a French owned island to lease "will build to suit". Have to have a ramp to get the plane in and out of the water, workshop, living space. Just could never get all the financing together.
My father trained on a PBY in the RCAF during WWII. He said that it was a very easy plane to fly and enjoyed piloting it-John in Texas
It’s so beautiful. My warplane museum has 2 flying models of this, it’s by far my favourite plane. IT’s always been a pipe dream of mine to live out of one
I met Dr Bird at his museum maybe 12 years ago, he was an interesting guy with quite a collection of accomplishments. I don't think this plane was there, or if it was I didn't/don't remember seeing it, but a flying yacht with additional engines makes more sense for him than anyone else I could name.
Fascinating, thank you.
Thanks for the great story of the PBY. I’m from San Diego, and didn’t realize that part of it’s history. Great job!
Great job capturing this beautiful aircraft.
The all-time zenith of glamour and sophistication!
That's so cool! Thanks for sharing!
A gorgeous plane, one of the most beautiful flying boats. Great topic and video!
Been a dream since childhood to do exactly this, tour the world in a converted flying boat. Thanks for the insight.
Thanks Calum! Great video as always.
Thanks Josephs!
Magnificent as always, Calum! Thanks for this one.
Thanks Martin! Figured it would be fun to bookend the helihome with another odd flying home!
@@CalumRaasay Since I'm from Sweden I loved the vehicles of Antarctica :-D
Very interesting. Very well done. Thanks for presenting
...What a poetic ending there over that final series of images... Borderline tear-jerking. Your writing is quite something, mmm, admirable stuff, admirable.
Positive Dynamic Stability! Say it! Live it!
Fascinating. Great film, really enjoyed it. Thank you
This has been my dream since I was a little kid. The Catalina is my all time favorite aircraft ❤️
I sailed past one of these near Hamilton, Bermuda in the late 1970s.
It was fitted out like a luxury home.
Fantastic video... Especially the scenes of the Landseaire that is being rebuilt....they even made a new keel for her...a fabulous job they are doing!
Agreed. They ask for close to 1M bucks but it will be worth every penny. It’s one of the lowest time PBY airframes still flyable and it’s still got the original Landseaire dinghies!!
@@elanthys It would be great to see somebody buy the old girl and put her into the use she was intended for.
What a superb, beautiful and utterly astonishing aircraft. I recall reading an article in the Observer newspaper and watching a television broadcast, featuring a Catalina touring Africa. The route included landing in Lake Victoria, witnessing the famous falls and was simply breath-taking. As a young guy I think I would have sold a kidney to board the Cat and take part in the ultimate expedition!
I always dreamed of having one of these. Fantastic video!
Very nicely done mate. Thank You
This is where the premise for a cartoon I used to watch as a kid came from. The plane looked like a PBY, could land in water, and dude lived aboard it. It kept it tied to a little dock on a little island between jobs.
Flying on one of these has, for years, many years in fact, been a dream of mine. Thank you for the video.
Same here! Thanks for watching 🙏
Apart from being insanely expensive and destructive to the environment - this would be an absolute dream! Imagine having a luxurious RV that can fly, swim and offer unparalleled speed, range, and capabilites. That shot of the family looking at the pyramids through the tear drop glas canopy - goosebumps! Combine that with the lax airspace control regulations back then - absolutely bonkers.
The flying boat as a concept is truly unique! I especially love the behemoths like the Short Sunderland. Also, yes. Your dog can indeed rob a bank based on personal experiences (2:35)
Just so you know calum, if you ever make your way there, theres a pby at duxford that flies regularly, ive seen it start up, taxi and takeoff, along with a b17 sally g
Incredible video mate. My all time favourite youtube creator - every video you post is right up my alley. Cheers!
Thank you Ethan, I appreciate that so much!
Such an interesting piece of history!
My first exposure to this plane and it's ilk was the cartoon TailSpin. The Sea Duck was inspired by the PBY-3, the G-21 Goose, and the C-82.
Super interesting stuff! Thanks for scouring these out for us, my engineer heart loves these niche explorations.
Very interesting!
Thanks for making the video
Ive been thinking about this for ever
I used to fly on one of these to change crews in the Louisiana Oil Fields.
Always wanted to fly in one. Fascinating. Thank you.