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About 80 Years, A Tribute To The PBY Catalina
Product Description 80 years, a tribute to the PBY Catalina depicts over 400 of the best images from the PBY Catalina over the type's full lifespan of 80 years. Including the author s own impressive collection taken during two transatlantic crossings (for the 8-part 'Catalina Odyssey' TV-documentary series). It also features a wealth of photographs from private family albums and professional photographers from all over the world many of them never published before. Additionally, the Smithsonian Institution and other leading aviation museums, plus many Catalina/Canso operators from the USA, Canada, Australia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and the UK have supplied rare images from their WWII photographic collections, or of their aircraft on static display or still flying. From the Inside Flap "The author has done a job of tracing the history of the PBY literally around the globe. Using incredible and rare photography joined with well-researched narrative, Hans Weisman captures the multi-role capability of this aircraft from a war fighter on patrol, bombing, rescue and transport missions to a luxury touring and adventure platform. If you love aviation, this is a must-have part of your collection!" --Larry Frankenbach "The author has collected a huge amount of unpublished photographs, interesting stories and well documented information about this fascinating aircraft. Nearly 300 pages that will catch your interest if you are really a fan of historic planes. Fully recommended book." -- Cesar Canomanuel "Apart from other interesting books about the PBY Catalina this one gives a detailed survey of the development of this very interesting airplane in photo's over a long period.Flying in this plane will give me even more pleasure now having the information from this book. Many thanks to Excellent historical photo book 5 Star Review "-- Cees Timmer "80 years , a tribute to the PBY Catalina is "THE" BOOK about this legendary aircraft. The author did an incredible research and put together an impressive collection of pictures (those 1944 / 45 COLOR photos are unique). I have been a big fan of Seaplanes for long time , have several publications about them and this is the best book I purchased so far. It is EXCELLENT. Please extend my huge complements to Hans Wiesman,the author, and also thank him for the extra color photo included in the book." -- Edwardo Beretta, Canada "I am absolutely amazed at the quality of the photographs and the extent of the textual stories that Hans Weiseman has assembled in this book. It has obviously been a book that he has put his personal passions into and has gathered so many previously un-known and un-seen photos and stories of the Catalina/PBY/Canso. This book will be the go-to reference for archival photos that have been gathered from around the world and illustrate the history and use of these aircraft during the Second World War as well during the post-war era and into their current state of use. Beautifully published." -- Les Oystryk "Was very excited to finally receive my copy and finally get to see how much work was put into it's compilation. A fabulous collection from around the world and over the years." -- Norm O'Donovan "Firstly thank you for the delivery of this product to southern New Zealand-albeit after a longer wait than I would have liked.I find the 'Catalina' book visually pleasing in it's layout and very informative in it's text, making for a very good historical document." -- Clark McDowall About the Author Hans Wiesman (author of The Dakota Hunter book & blogs) traces his profound passion for the DC-3/Dakota and the PBY Catalina back to the age of five. Between the years 1951 1956 he lived in the Borneo Jungle and he flew in both aircraft with his father, a Shell oil exploration engineer. Hans' love affair with these aircraft has never faded and later in his career, being a Creative executive for an International Brand, he met the PBY Catalina again and created a TV documentary
