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Message: [QUOTE="AlaskaSU, post: 2706250, member: 230"] sad end for a WWII PBY, flying boat. They were the go-to plane for anti-submarine warfare. They are now 80 years old and still being used as air tankers to fight forest fires. They are a trip. They can land on water and then power themselves up a ramp to get to dry land. I've had a turbulent flight in a similar ancient plane, a Grumman Goose, from Stewart BC to Prince Rupert BC, following a narrow portion of the Inside Passage, lined by mountains, never going above the 500' cloud cover, while the pilot chain smoked, even when standing on top of the wing to fuel up in Stewart. Highlights were the Priest praying up front and the pilot fishing around for his lit cigarette that he lost during turbulence. It was the first plane to make it to Stewart in several days and no one knew when the next one would make it. You take what you can get. [/QUOTE]