And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I bet there are more around than you would think, after all, Jaques Cousteau used one for years as they were such a strong and reliable workhorse. As a truly amphibious plane, they would be ideal for island hopping were there are no airstrips, but there is a lagoon and a reasonably shallow beach. Wonder how you could find out
I'm pretty sure the remaining were bought up by Coulson Flying Tankers, the company that air-drops massive amounts of water onto forest fires, just as the government was going to scrap them. Some are still in service, fighting forest fires all over the US, Canada and Mexico - and are kept on Sproat Lake, near Port Alberni, Vancouver Island, BC.
I bet there are more around than you would think, after all, Jaques Cousteau used one for years as they were such a strong and reliable workhorse. As a truly amphibious plane, they would be ideal for island hopping were there are no airstrips, but there is a lagoon and a reasonably shallow beach. Wonder how you could find out
ReplyDeleteThey were elegant and useful old birds.
ReplyDeleteI'm pretty sure the remaining were bought up by Coulson Flying Tankers, the company that air-drops massive amounts of water onto forest fires, just as the government was going to scrap them. Some are still in service, fighting forest fires all over the US, Canada and Mexico - and are kept on Sproat Lake, near Port Alberni, Vancouver Island, BC.
ReplyDeleteHere is wikipedia's list of survivor PB-Y's
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_surviving_Consolidated_PBY_Catalinas