PSA: The PBY Catalina is Friggin' Cool

"Breakfast Burrito: The True Resident Burrito" (breakfast-burrito) 01/21/2016 at 16:02 • Filed to: planelopnik

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Haven’t seen it on here in a while, so here ya go!

In a Mini; let them mock me as My Mini Countryman is higher than you > Breakfast Burrito: The True Resident Burrito 01/21/2016 at 16:07

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I’m sorry

I CAN HEAR YOU OVER MY 90MM OF FREEDOM

Shane MacGowan's Teeth > Breakfast Burrito: The True Resident Burrito 01/21/2016 at 16:13

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I was gonna post that one that Nick Cage destroyed. But I can’t. I love the ugly bastards- this is my “win the lottery airplane”

ttyymmnn > Breakfast Burrito: The True Resident Burrito 01/21/2016 at 16:18

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If you think that’s cool, check this out. Back in the early 1950s, some guy took a surplus Catalina and converted it into a flying yacht. Talk about traveling in style. And that side bubble makes for one hell of a picture window. Life Magazine did a pictorial about it. I’ve been meaning to do a post. More pics, and the story, here .

ttyymmnn > Breakfast Burrito: The True Resident Burrito 01/21/2016 at 16:19

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See if you can spot the enlisted men in the photo.

Breakfast Burrito: The True Resident Burrito > ttyymmnn 01/21/2016 at 16:24

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Hell yeah! I’d do the same if I could ever afford a Catalina. Sad it was shot down, but even when it’s dead it still looks cool.

BobintheMtns > Breakfast Burrito: The True Resident Burrito 01/21/2016 at 16:30

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Coolest. Plane. Ever.

Bubble windows for the win!

coelacanthist > ttyymmnn 01/21/2016 at 16:35

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That. Would be. The life.

Bricks > Shane MacGowan's Teeth 01/21/2016 at 17:23

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was going to do the same but didn’t for pretty much the same reason.

facw > Breakfast Burrito: The True Resident Burrito 01/21/2016 at 17:51

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That’s pretty rough, but maybe the Smithsonian will give it a try whenever they get around to finishing this Sikorsky JRS-1:

Chasaboo > Breakfast Burrito: The True Resident Burrito 01/21/2016 at 19:23

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Enemy subs hated that plane.

Rileym28 > Breakfast Burrito: The True Resident Burrito 01/21/2016 at 19:40

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You should add a picture of the Black Cats

inkersive > Breakfast Burrito: The True Resident Burrito 04/10/2016 at 15:51

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my dream is to save up so i can buy one of these and live on it as a flying houseboat.