Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 02:47 PM 3/10/02 -0700, Tim Atherton wrote: > >PS - we have 4 or 5 Catalinas out at the airport here still in regular use >(or Cansos as we Canucks call them). Used for waterbombing during forest >fire season. It's quite something to see a couple of them swoop down on a >lake together and scoop up water at full revs, ready for the next load! Are you certain that these are Cat-Boats -- that is, two-engine Consolidated PBY's? I had believed that the Canadians were using the last five four-engine PB2Y Coronados for this. Or so the Canadians have claimed over on the Military History lists. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +276/343-7315 Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir! - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html