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RogerB · Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 2:33 pm Post subject: Re Catalina's

A very close friend of mine (now 94 years old) trained in the USA and Canada with the RAF and ended the war flying Catalina's in the Middle East. I hope to get hold of his Flight Log and write about his training and flying.

RogerB

Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 21614 Location: UK

Sounds interesting, some years back I bought a (print) drawing of a Catalina that had been signed by a number of people. Research showed that many, if not all, had been crew on Catalinas during the war.

RJ
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Ray White · Joined: 02 Dec 2014 Posts: 4082 Location: Derby

I used to work with an old chap called Tony Cass who flew them in the war. He didn't have a very good war and hardly ever spoke about it.

Rootes75 · Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2018 5:13 pm Post subject:

We saw a Catalina on Sunday at the Weston S Mare air day, lovely old plane and such a slow beast too.
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