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Posted: **Mon Jul 18, 2011 10:52 pm**

Took my 2yr old daughter shopping on the weekend, went to the toy shop, she actually chose an aircraft (Matchbox Catalina, Purple of course) but when she got it home the first thing she did was sit in in her plastic bus and take it for a drive... Mmmmm.. maybe not the aviatrix I had imagined her being

Posted: **Mon Jul 18, 2011 11:57 pm**

Nothing wrong with a purple PBY deeknow....got to start somewhere, and Im sure the bus thing will wear off.....and only being two, theres lots of time to select the right course.......nice to see some family stuff here for a change.

Posted: **Tue Jul 19, 2011 11:47 am**

Dean , this is were you keep that flightsim up and running and maybe buy that Aerosoft cat , now you just have to convince the Catalina Club to paint up there one

Posted: **Tue Jul 19, 2011 1:14 pm**

Haha, nice one guys, yeah I'll get the Purple paint tin out and dump it on that Cat, just gotta save some $$$ for it now

Looking FWD to reliving the stories from those old commando mags I read as a kid with Catalina's blasting round the pacific

Posted: **Tue Jul 19, 2011 1:22 pm**

deeknow wrote:
QUOTE (deeknow @ Jul 19 2011,2:14 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Looking FWD to reliving the stories from those old commando mags I read as a kid with Catalina's blasting round the pacific

Hang on ...

I'm sure i still have that 'Commando' kids army training manual here .... 'The Black Cat '

Posted: **Tue Jul 19, 2011 1:27 pm**

deeknow wrote:
QUOTE (deeknow @ Jul 19 2011,1:14 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
....with Catalina's blasting round the pacific.

Well, I probably wouldn't call 100 knts blasting!

Posted: **Tue Jul 19, 2011 4:17 pm**

connor wrote:
QUOTE (connor @ Jul 19 2011,2:27 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Well, I probably wouldn't call 100 knts blasting!

Connnnnnor , he meant that in the explosive way

Posted: **Tue Jul 19, 2011 5:29 pm**

Ian Warren wrote:
QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Jul 19 2011,4:17 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Connnnnnor , he meant that in the explosive way

Hehe, of course I did Ian. Oh BTW, here's the cover of the VERY issue I was thinking of, does this bring back any memories for the other oldies here

More on the issue following, you can even buy a copy of it...
http://www.commandocomics.com/collection/i...sound-of-death-

QUOTE

Ironbottom Sound - a name feared by sailors in the South Pacific. Old salts claimed it was called this because of the number of ships sunk there in that hostile stretch of water close to the Solomon Islands. This was long before the Japs arrived in 1942, when even more than ships were to perish.
But one Catalina flying boat crew from the Royal Australian Air Force was determined to salvage something from those dangerous waters - to help their American allies drive back the fierce invaders.[/quote]
brilliant !!!

NZFF

An Air Bus?