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.
everybody who bought one to use as a chicken coop removed and threw away the glass bubbles on the side. now they probably cost what e rebuilt engine costs.
As a kid in Sault Ste Marie MI (73 now) living a mile or so from our city airport there was a privately owned PBY that landed there for quite a few summers on its way to somewhere (likely Canada lakes as we are on the northernmost Ontario land border in MI). I recall building a plastic model as a kid and thought them so cool.
airfoil shaped fuel tank. there was a modification done some years ago on another canso to install a pair of IO-720 engines and three blade props out in front of the ailerons on the wings. they were useful on takeoff and aided in roll control. I only knew of the one aircraft so modified, saw it in the Med.
everybody who bought one to use as a chicken coop removed and threw away the glass bubbles on the side. now they probably cost what e rebuilt engine costs.
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ReplyDeleteLooks fine as bone china!
ReplyDeleteClimbed at 90 mph, cruised at 90 mph, and dived at 90 mph.
ReplyDeleteFlown on heroic missions by heroic men.
Canadian -built "Canso". Can be seen at Natl Museum of WWII Aviation at Colorado Springs. Still flyable. Saw it fly last summer.
ReplyDeleteThe post war civilian conversions that turned them into flying RV's would be neat to own.
ReplyDeleteAs a kid in Sault Ste Marie MI (73 now) living a mile or so from our city airport there was a privately owned PBY that landed there for quite a few summers on its way to somewhere (likely Canada lakes as we are on the northernmost Ontario land border in MI). I recall building a plastic model as a kid and thought them so cool.
Deleteairfoil shaped fuel tank. there was a modification done some years ago on another canso to install a pair of IO-720 engines and three blade props out in front of the ailerons on the wings. they were useful on takeoff and aided in roll control. I only knew of the one aircraft so modified, saw it in the Med.
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