The rear wall of the cockpit, with electrical panel, fuel tank selectors, and mixture controls
The Royal Danish Air Force PBY-6A L-861. It was one of several Catalinas used to map Greenland. L-866 is preserved at Cosford. Here are some very interesting photos from an ex-RDAF officer who took part in these flights
http://www.soendergaard-andersen.dk/#home
Note the blisters, pilot's side window and overhead hatch are all open on this one:
Floats down:
This is VH-PBZ, operated by the Historical Aircraft Restoration Society in Australia. Note the row of airliner-style circular windows
http://www.hars.org.au/2009/05/consolid ... na-vh-pbz/
The Dutch PBY based at Lelystad, and one we have seen at Flying Legends. This will be the model I'll attempt a round-the-world trip in, and try my hand at repainting.
The PBY-6A once operated by Jacques Cousteau, and in which his son Phillippe died when it nosed over during a high-speed taxi run on the River Tagus in Portugal in 1979.
Note the odd shaped nose, and the platforms for scuba divers below the blisters:
A Pensacola-based PBY-6A. The radome above the cockpit is considerably smaller than they fitted to the RDAF one above
A Royal Norwegian Air Force PBY-5 ( the pure flying boat model, without the wheels ), operating with RAF Coastal Command from Oban
My favourite, a USN PBY-5A on patrol over the vast ocean
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A question... did the Cousteau catalina survive the incident in which Philippe died?
