FAO Cat Driver

[Siddley Hawker]

If you want a big dick the way to get one is hold it with one hand as a brace to allow you to apply full rudder on a PBY, soon it will swell so big you wont be able to get your hand around it....and as an extra bonus do it long enough and it will turn black

Mrs. Sid just looked at that and said "You told me you flew the Canso, you lyin' prick."

[FlyingFiremenC/PGSon]

There have been female pilots of PBY's since the war though how many would be hard to tell... I would be interested to know if PBY's were ferried around by woman like the other bombers and some fighters were.... I have read stories documenting women pilotsof B-24's, Lancs and P-39's but the PBY ferry flights I have read about were all men and were usually VP group pilots being reassigned.... Imagine the hours behind the yoke thise guys did...crazy.... I belong to to PBY yahoogroups forum and will ask a couple of the veterans if women spent any time flying Cats on long missions... If they did I imagine the side effects were somewhat different for them

[Ned Kelly]

Actually on the previous Catalina ferry from France to Downunder the co-pilot was a female QANTAS pilot - Donna Porter.

Cheers
Ned

[Ned Kelly]

VH-CAT on it's way down Australia's east coast today enroute from Portugal -






Enjoy

Ned