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What time is it scheduled to take off tomorrow?
1100 / 1115 ish.
Parrotheads will remember that Jimmy Buffet had his own flying boat
I watched it take off this morning, I heard the engines start up when I was in my house so drove up the hill to watch it.
I took a couple of vids but have no idea how to host them here. I've posted them on the Catalina Facebook page in the comments section.
It was an amazing sight, I've been watching it's progress since it landed. It developed an engine problem after it landed so they replaced it on a quay at the side of the Loch.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3463684253720642&id=233330846756015
Full version of the flying yacht story:
A couple of pictures from on board today:
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I just finished reading the last part of that article that IHN and mashr posted, jings what a horrendous experience , must have been truly terrifying.
I just finished reading the last part of that article that IHN and mashr posted, jings what a horrendous experience , must have been truly terrifying.
Just finished it myself. What a nightmare!
There's a Catalina lying in Clyde off Great Cumbrae just south of the ferry slip. It's 30 years since I've dived this but access through the blisters was straightforward & you could swim all the way out the front. I seem to remember the cockpit & wingtips were gone as were the engines. On the swim back up the slope to the beach one of the engines was lying on the seabed covered in weed. Parts of this made it back home & I've still got one of the sodium filled valves somewhere. Anyone know how it came to be there ?
Just to add to Davesports tangent, there is also a bit of Catalina lying beside the road in Vatersay.
My wife's old man was a radio operator in Catalinas during the war based in Oban. Coastal Command B-17s too flying out from Benbecula. in the B-17s he was also the ball turret gunner (tiny guy), not a job that appeals much I must say.
Just to add to Davesports tangent, there is also a bit of Catalina lying beside the road in Vatersay.
Aye, been for a look at that. I think the wreckage has been relocated to its present location. I'll away and see if I can find out how it arrived there.
I've not watched it yet, but here's the link to the BBC Alba programme about the recovery of the Catalina from Loch Ness - Linky