A Day On a Flying Yacht, 1950

[gunny]

Two pages devoted to a civvie PBY-5A i stumbled upon and thought someone might enjoy, Sorry if posted before
sad our servicemen didn't have these comforts on board!

1st page from 1950's
www.retronaut.co/2011/11/a-day-on-a-flying-yacht-1950/

Note: on reading futher, this is a different boat in the 2nd story guess i should have looked at the rego's and now i notice the cut out blister on 2nd site is on starbord not port.
guess i better go to bed, makes a good story though
There appears to be no pics of the life mag cat crash in Brazil and i believe this 2nd story is true just boats mixed up. Sorry again

And 2nd page is the sad demise
www.artificialowl.net/2009/07/abandoned-catalina-seaplane-50-years.html

[gunny]

Well now i stuffed THAT 1 up heh heh.
Here is some more pics from the Time life cat.

www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=FLYING+YACHT+source:life&sa=N&start=0&ndsp=20&biw=1024&bih=768&sei=NW9TT7mkG9GZiQf97-DUCw&tbm=isch

[flyjoe180]

That's an interesting blog, thanks gunny.