Why go "Boating" when you can go "PBYing" instead

Pat Carry · **Posted:** Tue Jun 12, 2012 4:15 pm

Interesting photos! All we need now are Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon.

Chappie · **Joined:** Wed Dec 19, 2007 9:40 am **Posts:** 987

Wow. God bless the bikini. :lol:

Chappie

bombadier29 · **Joined:** Sun Jan 29, 2012 9:17 pm **Posts:** 272

If the PBY pictures were properly credited, instead of just right clicked, saved and reposted by the owner of your photo account, they would be found to have originated with Life Magazine.

http://images.google.com/search?hl=en&q ... w&tbm=isch

Several of these and good commentary about the Landseair project can be found on JDK's blog.
http://vintageaeroplanewriter.blogspot. ... yacht.html

Mark Allen M · **Joined:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:48 pm **Posts:** 7818

gary1954 · **Posted:** Tue Jun 12, 2012 6:39 pm

bombadier29 wrote:

If the PBY pictures were properly credited, instead of just right clicked, saved and reposted by the owner of your photo account, they would be found to have originated with Life Magazine.

http://images.google.com/search?hl=en&q ... w&tbm=isch

Several of these and good commentary about the Landseair project can be found on JDK's blog.
http://vintageaeroplanewriter.blogspot. ... yacht.html

lucky guy
Loomis Dean / LIFE magazine. February 2nd, 1950

gary1954 · **Posted:** Tue Jun 12, 2012 6:54 pm

The LIFE magazine archive images continue to amaze all of us as they are released for general viewing and this series is typical of the fascinating photographs that have come to-light. Taken in and around this Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina - N69043 - owned by the Southern California Aircraft Corp. - specially converted into a Landseaire 'flying yacht', they purport to show just how the 'other-half' lived back in the Golden Days of the Fifties. The photographs were taken around February 1950 by renowned LIFE cameraman, Loomis Dean. The 'boat was lost in a crash at Sao Paulo on the 5th July 1953 carrying a Brazilian registration.

According to J Baugher's website, this was Consolidated PBY (Catalina) 34045:

The Thing is, Who are these people? I would love to hear their personal stories about their trips :supz:

, all the drinking :drinkers:

, and One can only imagine that there were new members of the mile high club :shock:

created during some of those …. flights :drink3:

For more information

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=34490&start=10

For more Photos

http://www.seawings.co.uk/CatalinaFlyin ... -WRgal.htm
http://taylorempireairways.com/2010/02/ ... rne-yacht/
http://vintageaeroplanewriter.blogspot. ... yacht.html

http://images.google.com/search?hl=en&q ... w&tbm=isch

JohnB · **Posted:** Tue Jun 12, 2012 7:38 pm

In the late 60s-early 70s, Flying magazine had a story on a luxury PBY conversion owned by a wealthy businessman. It too, had a openable blister on one side and a "blown" unit on the other.
It's neat trick was a pair of motorboats that were winched up under the wing...backwards.

It had some neat nose art and the owner's wife did needlepoint pillows with the same design.
I wish I still had the issue, I'd like to know the N number and see if it's still around.

It wasn't a Dr. Bird 4-engine conversion.

BTW: It looks hot up there..hopefully the bathing beauties took care on the hot aluminum..and watched out for those exhaust stacks...ouch!

BTWII: IMHO...The girl with the polka dot swim suit is even "hot" by today's standards...something not always the case with the 50's hair and clothes designs.
:wink:

She'd be in her 80's today....hope she had a great life.

Fouga23 · **Posted:** Tue Jun 12, 2012 8:01 pm

French artist Romain hugault made this very nice artpiece:

Mark Allen M · **Joined:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:48 pm **Posts:** 7818

Chris Brame · **Posted:** Tue Jun 12, 2012 8:47 pm

Before the mods remove that last shot - I didn't know women went sunbathing wearing tassels - or is that Bettie Page stopping by between shows?

CWBuff · **Joined:** Tue Jul 19, 2005 1:14 am **Posts:** 854

Heh, this is one of my favorite collections in the LIFE archives... can't imagine why... :supz:

And I dig that canvas, Fouga... :drink3:

Fade to Black...

Mark Allen M · **Joined:** Fri Feb 03, 2012 1:48 pm **Posts:** 7818

CWBuff · **Joined:** Tue Jul 19, 2005 1:14 am **Posts:** 854

Mark Allen M wrote:

Chris Brame wrote:

I didn't know women went sunbathing wearing tassels

They're called "pasties" now a days :wink:

And there are those girls who do indeed use them for a bit of 'artistic' tanning... :shock:

Fade to Black...

michaelharadon · **Posted:** Tue Jun 12, 2012 9:50 pm

One more tassel and she wouldn't need her bikini bottom! :lol:

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