Beautiful...

[Typhoon1244]

Picture.

Seeing this makes me want to sell everything, get my seaplane wings and head for the South Pacific...

 

[DJS]

New Zealand...

Actually, the caption says that is New Zealand. It also looks a lot like the San Juan islands in Washington state, which are a blast to fly around.

 

[wingnutt]

Seeing this makes me want to sell everything, get my seaplane wings and head for the South Pacific...

...if you drive ill pay 1/2 the gas if i can come with

 

[T-Gates]

It would make flying fun again.....

 

[Timebuilder]

Right on!!!

 

[Jedi_Cheese]

I don't know if I would want to fly a PBY. The FE controls the engines and you can't talk to him at all... Also, they were supposedly a bitch to TO/land.

 

[pilotman2105]

I don't know if I would want to fly a PBY. The FE controls the engines and you can't talk to him at all... Also, they were supposedly a bitch to TO/land.

PBY = Registration number, not aircraft type.

Type (at least from what I can tell from the site. I may be wrong) = Canadian Vickers Canso

 

[pilotman2105]

Hi...

PBY stands for Patrol Bomber, Y is the manufacturer's code for Consolidated Aircraft Company.

Regards

Wait a second... In the caption underneath, it fairly clearly says the registration number is ZK-PBY. The manufacturer is Catalina Group of New Zealand and the type is Canadian Vickers Canso.

Am I missing something?

 

[Flymach2]

Hi...

PBY stands for Patrol Bomber, Y is the manufacturer's code for Consolidated Aircraft Company.

Regards

 

[TonyC]

Re: New Zealand...

Actually, the caption says that is New Zealand.

Well, in Typhoon1244's defense, New Zealand IS in the South Pacific. Lake Wanaka is near the south-western tip of the South Island, very close to the Tasman Sea coast.


That picture is, in a word, stunning.

 

[Flymach2]

Hi...

I'm not sure, pilotman2105. If you look at some of the other photos of that same aircraft, you'll be able to see the registration number. It's not ZK-PBY. It's NZ 4017. Perhaps a designator for yet another manufacturer?

Regards

 

[Jedi_Cheese]

I looked up the linage of the PBY and it seems that Canada built them under agreement by Canadian Vickers. They also named their Canso instead of the British naming of Catalina.

It makes sense tho, most allied WW2 aircraft were used and built by all the Anglo allies. The US built and designed most of the aircraft, but others then copied the aircraft and build some home grown ones.

 

[rchcfi]

Fantastic picture......Almost looks identical to the area I fly around daily minus lots of snow.....

 

[airbrush]

The aircraft type is the Canso, the Canadian license-built equivalent to the U.S. made PBY; it's essentially the same aircraft.

ZK-PBY is the registration number, equal to the U.S. N-number. The -PBY part was probably just like requesting your initials at the end of your N-number when you register your homebuilt.

NZ 4107 might be some other designation, or a military serial number that corresponds to the WW II paint scheme.

Technicalities aside, great picture (click on the ZK-PBY in the caption and look at the other photos). That's the stuff that my childhood dreams of flying were made of.

 

[Typhoon1244]

Re: Re: New Zealand...

...New Zealand IS in the South Pacific...

Tony, you beat me to it. Thanks, though.

Originally posted by pilotman 2105
Wait a second... In the caption underneath, it fairly clearly says the registration number is ZK-PBY. The manufacturer is Catalina Group of New Zealand and the type is Canadian Vickers Canso.

A "Canso" is a PBY. Just like a "Dakota" is a DC-3, a "Kitty Hawk" is a P-40, and a "717" is a DC-9-95.

 

[Singlecoil]

Now I know where I want to retire. Wanaka, NZ.

If you have FlightSim 2004 you should check it out. Its just as cool as the picture.

 

[FN FAL]

"That was ludicrous, sir. You are jumping from an aeroplane, not a whorehouse window."

The Wild Geese

How did you know that was my most favorite mercinary movie of all time? That movie was based on "Mad Mike" Hoare.

"Mad Mike" led a paid mercinary strike force at a failed coup attempt in the Seychelles in the early '80s...his last real "iron clad" job before "retiring". (before you get on my case about the time line...yes the movie came out before the seychelles thingie...but the movie wasn't about that. Mmmmkay?

Link below to information on the Seychelles case...

http://www.contrast.org/truth/html/seychelles.html