PBY-6A Amphibious Take-off (Part 2/2)

Part 2/2 PBY-6A Catalina starts up its engines and taxi's into the water at Naval Airstation Whidbey Island's Seaplane Base in Oak Harbor, WA. After taking off from the water, it makes a water drop for the crowd at the Seaplane base. September 25, 2009

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• PBY
• Catalina
• Water
• Bomber
• Seaplane
• water
• drop

[whidbeyben]

The siren was apparently mounted on the PBY, as if to alert bystanders nearby to beware of taxiing plane.

[whidbeyben]

Apparent propeller rotation is an artifact of shutter speed, frames per second and propeller rpm's. The naked eye can't see the props spinning (but you can certainly hear them and feel the prop wash.

[Rickinsf]

Notice how the nose pitched up, briefly, when the water was released?

My father was on B24's during the war and said this was a problem on bomb runs. After they'd dropped their load, the now-lightened plane would go up, but the pilot, wanting to dive and gain speed, had to struggle to make it descend and 'get the hell outta there.'

[minder56]

Sirenes; moment of passing by , maybe salute/tribute or something?

[shooteraod]

A shotgun would fix that annoying seiren

[levelat350]

I heard sirens in the video,what did they mean?

[SenorSpode]

@whidbeyben Yep, understood. There's a few vids here on YT about helicopters flying with "still rotors", makes for fun viewing.

[SenorSpode]

The Cat flew to KAWO (Arlington, WA) Airport and has been sitting there since. Was good to get up close and take a few pics. it's a nice plane.

[biukucanoe]

I saw the stills from your iphone, did you run home to get your dv camcorder for this?