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 walked through that Short-Sunderland back in the mid-90s. Interior was still finished as an "executive suite" for what I believe was a Canadian lumber company.
A very interesting aircraft. The depth charges were stored inside the fuselage and ran out on rails under the wing root when a sub was sighted. I wonder how many engine parts ended up in the water working like that. Al_in_Ottawa
And engine fitters or aeroplane riggers. It’s said that RAAF personnel disappeared if they fell from Catalinas or Sunderlands at night in Karumba (QLD) or Broome (WA) during the war.
Short Sunderland: a magnificent machine as long as you're not a U boat! I believe there is one under restoration in the South of England somewhere.
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i have always loved sea planes, they are the most beautiful planes ever built IMOP.
ReplyDeletethe PBY Catalinas have always been one of my favorites'.
How do these boneheads, non replying, and scammers keep interrupting your excellent articles? Its obtrusive and bothersome. Don't you check responses?
ReplyDeleteSaw one at Kermit Weeks Museum in Florida. It is quite more impressive if you look up to it from the floor…thirty feet high.
ReplyDeleteI had to look up the museum
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1400 Broadway Blvd SE, Polk City, FL 33868
I walked through that Short-Sunderland back in the mid-90s. Interior was still finished as an "executive suite" for what I believe was a Canadian lumber company.
DeleteA very interesting aircraft. The depth charges were stored inside the fuselage and ran out on rails under the wing root when a sub was sighted. I wonder how many engine parts ended up in the water working like that.
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Or tools, no way to avoid oily hands.
ReplyDeleteAnd engine fitters or aeroplane riggers. It’s said that RAAF personnel disappeared if they fell from Catalinas or Sunderlands at night in Karumba (QLD) or Broome (WA) during the war.
DeleteI do believe that is a model aircraft in a diorama.
ReplyDeletethe little people figures always give it away. No matter how well the rest of the diorama is.
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