WW2 Catalina PBY-5a Flying Boat - Huge Engine Rumble
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- Опубліковано 13 лип 2019
- The New Zealand Catalina Preservation Society is focused on the preservation and operation of New Zealand's only PBY-5A "Catalina" twin-engine World War Two Canso amphibious flying boat, ZK-PBY.
The aim of the Society is to preserve, in airworthy condition, a WWII-veteran Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina flying boat, similar to the aircraft operated by the Royal New Zealand Air Force between 1943 to 1953, as an Aviation Heritage project for the community benefit of New Zealand.
Fifty-six Catalina's (NZ4001-NZ4056) were operated by the Royal New Zealand Air Force between 1943 and 1953. Provided under lend/lease arrangements these were a mix of non-amphibious Consolidated and Boeing built aircraft. They were engaged in anti-submarine, shipping escort, air-sea rescue and transport roles.
The Catalina's operated with No's 5 and 6 SQNs and No3 OTU, based at Hobsonville (Auckland, New Zealand) and various points in the Pacific. Unlike many other lend-lease aircraft, the Catalina's continued to be operated after World War II because they filled a vital role in South Pacific communications.
This aircraft is a Canadian Vickers built Canso (c/n CV-357) which arrived in NZ on October 26th, 1994. This aircraft was originally delivered to the Royal Canadian Air Force in March 1944, and operated on anti-submarine duties until it was struck off charge in June 1947.
The aircraft is shown here during a display at Ardmore Aerodrome, Auckland, New Zealand.
See also: www.nzcatalina.org.nz
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The Catalina is one of my favorite aircraft. I experienced a demonstration by one a number of years ago in Cleveland, Ohio. A magnificent, majestic beast. NZ is very fortunate to have one in flying condition.
Chilly Billy I loved the Cleveland Airshows back in the 80’s
Anyone that might know,
Doesn’t Jimmy Buffet own a PBY?
When I was a younger lad back in '78, I worked at a fly-in fishing camp in the Northwest Territories of Canada. I flew a commercial flight from Winnipeg to Lynn Lake in northern Manitoba. The next morning we headed to the harbour and boarded something we thought was out of a horror novel. Turned out to be an amphibious PBY. Man, what a flight! I spent most of it in one of the two recon. bubbles on either side of the fuselage. We nicknamed it the "Pig boat" because it was ... well, damned ugly! One day, it escaped moorings at the fishing camp in high winds and about 6 of us in 20 foot Starcraft boats managed to actually lasso it and get it turned around and headed back to the dock for re-mooring. Those were the days! What a trip. Thanks for the video!
the design is timeless, most elegant and simply beautiful.
I just love the sound of the twin wasp radial. As a country we are very lucky to have a catalina
What a beautiful old aircraft. Like an albatross in flight, very aerodynamic (for its day) graceful. And who doesn't love the sound of radial engines!!!
A thing of beauty to so many downed aviators.
If you’re down there in a Rubber Dingy Sunburned, Hungry, Thirsty, and tired of whacking Sharks on the Snoot with your paddle, you sure love to see, and hear one of those Angels, making a low pass, seeing those guys in the window with their Binoculars, circling and coming in splitting the water! Beautiful Plane! They saved a lot of lives! Thanks!Keep her flying! God Bless!🌈
Definitely an underrated plane, maybe not at the time but certainly now. Fulfilled so many roles.
What a sound!
Timeless design. Still looks modern. The wing size is awesome. Great aircraft.
BOY. That's a whole lotta wing, right there! My dad worked on, and flew on PBM's down in Brazil during WWII, and told me about the PBY's. Never get to see any PMB's! But thanks for this VID on these beautiful flying boats!
My uncle flew the "Cats" in the Pacific Theater during WW ll!
I had a good mate now deceased who flew in RAAF Cats during the war. Can you imagine flying for @ 27 hours from Northern Australia up into the islands, land and pick up munitions and fuel and then fly up to the coast of China to lay aerial sea mines. Then turn around and hopefully make it back home.
The only reason the RAAF Catalina could do that was because they had all the armour plate removed
@@MartintheTinman Not to mention the Amphibious landing gear and a few other bits and pieces.
One of my favourite aircraft. Just beautiful.
I love the Catalina. It's such a beautiful aircraft it's own odd sort of way. Had a plastic model of it when I was a kid. Man those engines sound amazing!
My first girlfriends dad was a PBY pilot in WWII. I should’ve put his words to paper as I’m forgetting the stories myself. What a great machine.
Wonderful aircraft. The range and "hang time" was phenomenal.
That noise... Goosebumps all over
My favourite airfix model of old . I didn't know how much better the real thing was . Thankyou for post.
PBY is a piece of flying beauty.
In terms of “Life’s Saved”. This maybe the greatest aircraft of WWII!
In the 70s, my next door neighbour was Tom Mason, who during WWII was in the Solomon Islands in charge of servicing NZ Catalinas. He lent me photos and I painted a 1/72 Scale Catalina in correct NZ rig and gave it to him, complete with authentic oil stained wings from the Pratt & Whitney engines.
That was a nice gesture.
@@jockellis He was a nice bloke, who saw many fail to return from serving.
Beautiful!!!!my grandfather has hand built from blueprints a flying model of one.
Such a wonderful aircraft. Up here in anchorage we have a skeleton of a Catalina quietly resting from close to 70 years of service
Thanks for the video, the only one I have seen is in the national air and space museum in Washington DC. It is in a very sad state or disrepair. Thankful there is one left for everyone to enjoy.
@Unforgiven One If you ever get a chance come to The National Museum of the United States Air Force in Dayton Ohio. They have an OA -10 (Army Air Corp version of the PBY) among tons of other awesome things to see.✈✈✈🚀🚀🚀
The Military Aviation Museum in Virginia Beach VA has a flying one. It appears at air shows on the U.S. east coast occasionally. It is simply amazing to see flying.
I have always been fascinated by this airplane. Imagine if you will, a slightly larger, modernized version with turbo prop engines and a “motor home/yacht” living quarters. Hey, I could live in it....anywhere! 🥴😎.....after I win the lottery.
I have seen a couple of these Catalinas that were re engined with turbo props in a similar way some DC3 aircraft ha e been treated
@@michaelnaisbitt1639 like a car, just engine swap it!
Beautiful just beautiful
Those planes remain in service at Brazilian Air force until the 80s performing humanitary activities at Amazon rain forrest area, Very capable aircraft! Great vídeo, congrats from Brazil! God Bless!
I could listen to that all day.
PBY...the most beautiful plane ever built.
My dad flew recon missions in these things in WWII South Pacific
My dad flew in that plane across the Pacific during World War II. Darwin to Dutch Harbor!
Crikey!! That's a long blankity-blank way! One climatic extreme to another.
@@peteacher52 No fooling! Along with running rescue and anti-sub patrols, he apparently had to ferry PBYs up to Alaska for the Russians to pick up. He probably had more flying miles under his belt than Buzz Aldrin!
Hey that's great. When I was a teenager I worked after school and a summer (1964)for Saskair (northern Canada) gassing bush planes including this one. Capacity was almost 1500 gallons. Of course we never filled it full. Also went for a ride in it up to Cree Lake. That was fun.
That’s my favorite aircraft of all time!!
So cool! My Dad was a Crewman in the PBY, twice, his first Enlistment (until they found out that he was only 15) and his second (when he was 17 and Grandma signed for him to go back). He went back to his same Squadron and was still a Pitcher and Second Baseman on the same Baseball Team ;^).
I had the Opportunity as a Child to actually Fly in a PBY ( Alaska used them as shuttles from main Airports) Dad met us at the Dock and talked to the Pilots and they let him give us a tour... they regretted it because he pointed out some Maintenance issues, all was good in the end.
Then when I was stationed in San Diego got to see the Ramps that my Dad told be about when I was a kid in Alaska.
Your dad’s a badass.
Thank you for preserving that historic plane, it's beautiful!
Magnificent aircraft. Cheers for sharing.
I have loved this ugly-duckling aircraft since moving to Casa Grande, AZ at the age of 7 in 1957. There was a long line of them, forlorn and unloved, parked at the airport. The story I heard was someone had bought them cheap as surplus, refurbished one of them as a luxury executive transport, got investors to put up the money to refurbish the rest, then skipped town down and disappeared into the Amazon basin with the money and the one good plane. If anyone knows more of this story or what happened to the rest of these PBY's please reply.
I don’t know about those Catalina’s, but your story sound a bit like this one. Interesting article, enjoy. www.messynessychic.com/2014/04/24/all-aboard-the-flying-yacht-circa-1950/
My Favorite Flying Boat PBY-5A.
Ugly beautiful, beautiful ugly, somehow graceful, love it.
And then, knowing how effective a weapon it was too.
Love it. Thanks for posting.
my father was flying in these, towing targets for gunnery practice at corpus christi nas on dec 7 1941.
That’s a magnificent aircraft
This Catalina visited Kerikeri in the mid-90s and offered flights to the public for $50 as a fund raiser. I was lucky but many missed out before the aircraft had to leave the Bay of Islands. It carried a surprising number of passengers and the duration was, for memory, about half an hour. Well worth it for many reasons, but importantly, to be able to say, 'I've had a ride in a Catalina!' Sadly, some time after that, another Catalina was on its delivery flight to NZ, developed problems and was lost at sea.
Not quite correct. The Catalina that was lost en-route to New Zealand was the forerunner of this aircraft. When that Cat was lost there was no Catalina in New Zealand, and this one, which would be the one that was offering flights in the Bay of Islands in the '90's, was the 'replacement' for the one that was lost.
I was born in 64 and as a kid in the 70s I built a model of the black cat .... I love the look of this great airplane
The engines rock too
The hey-day of kit building in the 70's - remember it well ;-)
Google the Felixstowe flying boat/bomber from WW1; you'll see the evolution of the Catalina. Thanks for posting!
I have always been seriously in love with the Catalina. There was a TV series decades ago about a guy that flew a Catalina and always had some trouble of one kind or the others. Can't remember the name of the TV series.
Tales of the Gold Monkey but it was a Grumman Goose.
It starred Stephen Collins and an adorable Irish actress!
When wanted to be rescued in the middle of a sea or ocean, the sight sailers prayed for was a sight and noise of one of these or its variations
That plane flies sooo beautifully with Wright R 2600 s on it ,ala Hemet Valley Flying Service as fire bombers back in their day...!!!
What year was that jack?
Kathleen Shaw : Supplemental Type Certificate...!!! Also in WW2 they had the Black Cats...chk them out...!!!
glen gerdes : I saw them in the 1970s...!!!
Kathleen Shaw I have seen pictures of the added 540s...!!! I also saw a Beech D18 with Continental 520 s in place of the 985s and supposedly the reduced airframe drag resulted in a higher cruise speed...but nothing was said of climb performance or load lugging ability ... with a net loss of 300 hp ...!!!
Kathleen Shaw: Wow ... you have had some awesomely varied maint experiences...!!!😱
Beautiful
I love the PBY and the Grumman Duck.
Thank god the old QANTAS Catalina is still flying :D
Well done, guys!
cant beat that sound.
Very cool video.
Beautiful aircraft in beautiful video as thank you share this
Watching the landing I realized that the engines were idling and that was how many night attacks were made on shipping and Japanese bases
in the Pacific.
The Black Cats did amazing work on enemy shipping in the Pacific Theater .
I live just South of Abbottsford, B.C. Here in about an hour, I should hear that sweet music of a radial at full throttle going overhead. Quite a collection of old 'warbirds' here in the area. Nothing quite like hearing a Wright or a Merlin singing her song, 'cept maybe a 'wing' of 'em in formation...
Yep, raise the 'hackles' on your neck and put a 'lump' in your throat, all at the same time, glorious!
Hate it when they remove the bow chaser turret. With them they look like rattlesnakes about to strike. Also the .30 BMGs are a great help in breaking surface tension on a glassy sea, according to a former crewman I knew in the ‘60s.
Maybe when 3D printing is perfected, someone will CAD all the parts and new examples can be built.
There's nothing to dislike about this video. She's still a beauty
The last thing a surfaced sub wanted to see was one of these, and quite possibly it was indeed the last thing it saw.
BeachsideHank
Oh yeah! And the first thing you wanted to see if you are a dowed Allied aviator in the middle of an ocean!👍🐘 Dumbo operations Air/Sea Rescue!
GREAT!!!!!
N Z AGAIN. Brilliant.
What a COOOOL ole WWII Aircraft! Even an thousandaire could own one of these WHEN the world goes tits up just sayin WINNING!
it's one of those
"if it looks right, it'll fly right"
aeroplanes
even if it looks ungainly
It's the fucking Catalina flying boat!
Foi um destes aviões, que localizou o maior navio de guerra alemão ( Bismarck ) na segunda guerra, consequentemente afundado.
They are a remarkable aircraft. I was lucky enough to get a ride in the Military Aviation Museum's (Virginia Beach VA) PBY-5A this past Saturday. It was amazing! The amount of space inside the aircraft is surprising. Each section is separated like the internals of a ship for floatation (sp) purposes.
Question: Are they going to restore the bow gun/bombadier's position?
I was in Kissimmee 21years ago and there was one there being overhauled and having the side blisters put on it. Does anyone know what happened to it and the p38 that was waiting a complete rebuild from almost unrecognisable crushed metal?
So.. this is where the ICON A5 inspired design
Was that Catalina in rotorua nz in the 90tys ? If so i went for a flight in it fantastic
I once read a pre-wwII book about some sailors (American, I think) that flew all over the Pacific, south and west of Hawaii mapping the islands there. It wasn't a story, rather it was an account of what they did. I wish I could remember the title, I'd read it again, I think. I think it was the pre-amphibious version of the bird.
Did Howard Hughes own one sold for private/commercial use?
Martin mariner was a good looking plane
My favorite plane ever. If possible I'll try to get a flight in the one they have in the Netherlands.
Augh! Too late to do that. The dutch Catalina has ben sold Stateside earlier this year.
Churchill to Roosevelt,..................................more,.......we need many more!
"TWO THUMBS UP"!!
Beautiful. Would have liked to see a water takeoff and landing.
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Such a workhorse...
Round sound...cannot mistake the sound of radial engines.
Saw your comment Stephen, and yes, “round sound” about describes it! Back in about 1969 or 70, l sold my Vincent Black Shadow Motorcycle to a Steve Spense. Could you possibly be the one? See my comment on the PBY also Thanks! Lol . J.M.
Saw your comment Stephen, and yes, “round sound” about describes it! Back in about 1969 or 70, l sold my Vincent Black Shadow Motorcycle to a Steve Spense. Could you possibly be the one? See my comment on the PBY also Thanks! Lol . J.M.
J Martin ...no not me. At that time I was in high school and lived in Southeast Louisiana, USA. I am however an avid WWII aviation history buff which led me to this posting. Presuming you are in New Zealand I should mention that up until 2009 I had the distinct pleasure to travel a number of times to NZ for business and still have friends there (Auckland, Hamilton, and Mount Maunganui).
Steven Spence,Thanks for the reply Stephen, no, l am in North Tex. and, like you, enjoy old airplanes, cars and motorcycles! Have been into most things that go putt putt! Thanks again, the best to you! Lol! JM
Why does the info text, two minutes in, describe them as NON-amphib's? That means they cannot land on water, which rather defeats the intention!
The aircraft the RNZAF used during WW2 were NOT amphibians, rather they were flying boats only. That is they could take off and land on water, but could NOT take off and land on the land (as this amphibious version of the aircraft can).
I bet if you were assigned to one, you ether loved it or hated it, no in between.
A good aircraft, almost as good as Dornier Do 24.
Good call , i didn't know about that one !
@@MyKharli
The Germans had more highly capable seaplanes. For exemple "Blohm & Voss BV 138"
What sort of Cat is that,, it has wheels!!
A PBY-5a - for amphibious.
IT WAS TERRIFIC. VERY THRILLING AND INFOMATIVE. KEEP THEM FLYING.
There’s one based five miles from me.
You either know her,or you don't...she's a big girl inside.
I flew one in war thunder
There's a hole on your left wing!
lol got that a lot. was a very fun bomber to play
@@lazarusmagellan2367 Slow as hec though. However, if your gunner crew level is high they can do some serious damage to other planes.
yup... i hated getting killed as a fighter
Twin 1,200 hp R-1830 radials (I looked it up, so sue me if I am wrong). That sounded like a lot of horses to me.
Was that Catalina in rotorua nz in the 90tys if so i went for a flight in it fantastic
It probably was, as there's only been one in NZ in the last 20 years -- this one!
If I had the money I'd put a couple of turboprops on those babies, like they do with the DC3's.
War thunder anyone?
Airworthy, but, apparently not sea worthy
Only reason it does not land on salt water is because of the potential for corrosion -- this aircraft regularly lands on fresh water lakes.