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Catahoulak9

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Re: today's SAS banner picture
« Reply #588 on: March 28, 2013, 02:52:02 PM »
Wow! That is a really nice photo. Are there any more where this came from?
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« Reply #589 on: March 28, 2013, 03:07:09 PM »
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« Reply #590 on: March 28, 2013, 05:28:49 PM »
Thank you brav6. Great photographs. I wonder how such a wonderful old girl ended up abandoned so far from home. I'm sure there must be a great story there.
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« Reply #591 on: March 28, 2013, 05:30:49 PM »
It looks really well preserved, probably due to the fact that it lay in the desert...

Nice pictures. ;) 

And why did it crash/land there?
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« Reply #592 on: March 28, 2013, 05:39:03 PM »
Quote from: Buchon2111 on March 28, 2013, 05:30:49 PM
It looks really well preserved, probably due to the fact that it lay in the desert...

Nice pictures. ;) 

And why did it crash/land there?

Full story
http://www.artificialowl.net/2009/07/abandoned-catalina-seaplane-50-years.html
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« Reply #593 on: March 30, 2013, 12:03:06 PM »
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« Reply #594 on: March 30, 2013, 12:22:33 PM »
Yes please!  :D
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« Reply #595 on: April 01, 2013, 08:19:47 PM »
Many thanks brav6 for the website link, I love the strange eeriness of such places.

Anyone fancy making a Tarkovsky movie ?  :)

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« Reply #596 on: April 02, 2013, 05:25:20 PM »
Quote from: Boeing on March 30, 2013, 12:03:06 PM
Edited! Please do not quote a pics that is only a few post above. Thank you.

This lovely picture of a late SBD reminded me of the fact that the DBW North American AT6 looks FAR too much like an SBD.  This is especially true of the after fuselage and empennage. 

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« Reply #597 on: April 02, 2013, 09:31:00 PM »
THat PBY is fascinating. Amazing story, and shows how dangerous it has always been in the mid east, since Isreal gets blamed for everything. Like Isreali commandos would show up in a PBY. It does look pretty good for a half century there.

And yeah, the DBW T-6 really does look too much like the SBD it is based on. The wings would at least need squaring methinks.
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« Reply #598 on: April 03, 2013, 12:57:53 AM »
Quote from: lordish on April 02, 2013, 05:25:20 PM
This lovely picture of a late SBD reminded me of the fact that the DBW North American AT6 looks FAR too much like an SBD.  This is especially true of the after fuselage and empennage. 
lordish

To my best information it was "made" from the SBD. Only a few modification of 3d, slot and FM was done, nothing more.  :D

Cheers,

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