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21-01-2008, 01:13 AM
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| Άρης  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Terra something or other
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You're Top Poster: #1   | I read a comment the other day somewhere (I can't remember where now) that the Cat was considered obsolete at the beginning of the war! Now that seems doubtful but anyone know what it's status was at the beginning of the US entry. Was it about to be phased out and replaced? If so, with what? And seeing as it wasn't officially retired until the mid-50s, what replaced it then (sorry, showing my ignorance of US flying boats here).
__________________ _________________  Beaufighter TF Mark Xs (NV427 'EO-L' nearest) of No. 404 Squadron RCAF based at Dallachy, Morayshire, breaking formation during a flight along the Scottish coast. February 1945. |
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21-01-2008, 01:21 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Outer reaches, Melbourne, Victoria
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You're Top Poster: #3  | Come the 50s, Kyt, I think the Neptune, and maybe the Tracker, was well and truly regarded as the maritime patrol replacement. A few other attempts at the flying boat were made (nothing springs to mind at present besides the Martin Mars and that's not really a Cat equivalent...Coronado?) but the Neptune and then the Orion really made an impact. I guess you could argue the emerging abilities of the helicopter had an impact as well from an ASR and anti-submarine point of view. No idea re start of the war though. Some generalist comments on my behalf for sure but, in my head, that's the way things seemed to have went.
__________________ http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/. http://www.awm.gov.au/index.asp  Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM. |
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21-01-2008, 01:41 AM
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| Super Moderator   Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Melbourne Australia
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You're Top Poster: #2 | Catalina flying boat 'Frigate Bird II' VH-ASA, 1944 Some good photos of the museum aircraft! "Frigate Bird 11" flown by famous Australian Pilot P.G. Taylor after the war however an interesting piece and well worth the read. B1495-1 Aircraft, flying boat, Catalina, PB2B-2, "Frigate Bird II", VH-ASA, metal / fabric, made by Boeing Aircraft of Canada Limited, Vancouver, Canada, 1944, flown on pioneering flight Australia-Chile, by P G Taylor, 1951 - Powerhouse Museum Collec
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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21-01-2008, 10:51 PM
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| Member  Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Not far from Stonehenge
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You're Top Poster: #21 | Duxford 2006/7. Had two in 2006 but didnt get any pics as had to leave early to go a function  And a couple from Dayton Errrr......Duxford....Dayton....is this a fetish taking pics at places that begin the letter D ?
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