Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]PS - don't take any notice of what other Canadians say, they don't have any idea what's happening in the North! Most of them live so close to the border they're nearly Americans anyway... ;-) tim > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Marc James > Small > Sent: March 10, 2002 3:30 PM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: [Leica] Flying Boats > > > 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 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html