Catalina Flying Boat Breaks Down On Loch Ness

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  • isla
    Isla Woodcraft
    • Aug 2008
    • 12230

    Catalina Flying Boat Breaks Down On Loch Ness

    From last weekend:

    A flying boat has been towed to safety by a lifeboat after developing engine problems.
    The Catalina had been attempting to take off from Loch Ness when it experienced technical issues.

    An RNLI lifeboat was called out at about 17:50 on Saturday and took the aircraft to moor in Urquhart Bay.


    The flying boat called for help after developing engine problems taking off from Loch Ness.
    Structures without reference to geometry tend toward the ramshackle
  • isla
    Isla Woodcraft
    • Aug 2008
    • 12230

    #2
    Re: Catalina Flying Boat Breaks Down On Loch Ness

    Update:

    Structures without reference to geometry tend toward the ramshackle

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    • isla
      Isla Woodcraft
      • Aug 2008
      • 12230

      #3
      Re: Catalina Flying Boat Breaks Down On Loch Ness

      Craning out:

      Structures without reference to geometry tend toward the ramshackle

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      • isla
        Isla Woodcraft
        • Aug 2008
        • 12230

        #4
        Re: Catalina Flying Boat Breaks Down On Loch Ness

        Another update:

        Structures without reference to geometry tend toward the ramshackle

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        • isla
          Isla Woodcraft
          • Aug 2008
          • 12230

          #5
          Re: Catalina Flying Boat Breaks Down On Loch Ness

          Flying over Loch Ness during a visit back in 2013

          Structures without reference to geometry tend toward the ramshackle

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          • birlinn
            Isle of Mull, Scotland
            • Jul 2011
            • 10883

            #6
            Re: Catalina Flying Boat Breaks Down On Loch Ness

            They were stationed at Oban in WW 2.
            I believe there are the remains of one or two still on the sea bed in the harbour area.

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            • Paul Pless
              pinko commie tree hugger
              • Oct 2003
              • 124838

              #7
              Re: Catalina Flying Boat Breaks Down On Loch Ness

              fantastic aircraft
              Simpler is better, except when complicated looks really cool.

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              • Andrew Craig-Bennett
                Who?
                • Aug 1999
                • 28468

                #8
                Re: Catalina Flying Boat Breaks Down On Loch Ness

                My friend Mac who besides owning the lovely Harrison Butler “Rose of Arden”, was one of her pilots once explained why they absolutely hated water landings. Corrosion. They are wartime aircraft, never intended to last eighty years. They are going to hate them even more now .
                IMAGINES VEL NON FUERINT

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                • isla
                  Isla Woodcraft
                  • Aug 2008
                  • 12230

                  #9
                  Re: Catalina Flying Boat Breaks Down On Loch Ness

                  I see from the last video update that one of the plexiglass 'bubbles' on the fuselage (I'm sure there is a proper word for it) was broken during craning out. I imagine that will be quite difficult to replace. Hopefully they will not replace it, then have it broken again when they crane back into the water.
                  Structures without reference to geometry tend toward the ramshackle

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                  • C. Ross
                    Senior Member
                    • May 2007
                    • 14159

                    #10
                    Re: Catalina Flying Boat Breaks Down On Loch Ness

                    Originally posted by Paul Pless
                    fantastic aircraft
                    To my eye, one of the most beautiful aircraft ever.

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                    • Paul Pless
                      pinko commie tree hugger
                      • Oct 2003
                      • 124838

                      #11
                      Re: Catalina Flying Boat Breaks Down On Loch Ness

                      imagine how it looked to a downed flyer, swimming. . .
                      Simpler is better, except when complicated looks really cool.

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                      • Reynard38
                        Senior Member
                        • Sep 2009
                        • 12533

                        #12
                        Re: Catalina Flying Boat Breaks Down On Loch Ness

                        There was one at the FLL airport for years. Privately owned. 100 knot yacht.
                        Fight Entropy, build a wooden boat!

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                        • Old Dryfoot
                          That Richard Guy
                          • May 2010
                          • 18548

                          #13
                          Re: Catalina Flying Boat Breaks Down On Loch Ness

                          This one lives at YYJ.

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                          • Jim Bow
                            Normcore
                            • Jul 2008
                            • 24003

                            #14
                            Re: Catalina Flying Boat Breaks Down On Loch Ness

                            Originally posted by Paul Pless;[URL="[URL
                            tel:6304520[/URL]"]6304520[/URL]]imagine how it looked to a downed flyer, swimming. . .
                            Amen.

                            Imagine the survivors of the Indianapolis seeing that PBY landing and taxiing toward them. The aviators turned it into a life raft. 56 victims climbed inside and up onto the wing. They spent the night fighting waves till boats arrived.

                            On Aug 2, A land-based patrol plane spotted the heads of survivors bobbing on the water but was unable to identify them. Pilot Adrian Marks and his flight crew were dispatched to the scene to investigate in his amphibious PBY-5A Catalinapatrol plane. He spotted the survivors and dropped life rafts. One life raft was destroyed by the drop while others were too far away from the exhausted crew. Against standing orders not to land in open ocean, Marks took a vote of his crew and decided to land the aircraft in twelve-foot swells. He was able to maneuver his craft to pick up survivors. Space in the craft was limited so Marks had survivors lashed to the wing with parachute cord. It damaged the wings, rendering the aircraft unflyable.
                            Marks rescued 56 men.[3] After nightfall, the destroyer escort USS Cecil J. Doyle (DE 368), the first of seven rescue ships, used its search light as a beacon and instilled hope in those still in the water. The Doyle and others picked up the remaining survivors and after everyone was off Marks' PBY, the Doyle sank her.
                            Marks was awarded the Air Medal for his actions, and it was pinned on him by Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, CINCPAC.
                            Last edited by Jim Bow; 10-25-2020, 07:49 PM.
                            “Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles and see the world is moving" - Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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                            • isla
                              Isla Woodcraft
                              • Aug 2008
                              • 12230

                              #15
                              Re: Catalina Flying Boat Breaks Down On Loch Ness

                              Repaired and flown home to Duxford..

                              The Catalina has returned to its base in Cambridgeshire following repairs at the loch.
                              Structures without reference to geometry tend toward the ramshackle

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