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    40 airplanes on Lake Wroth Lake.

    I never heard of this. Pretty cool old picture.
    40 PBYs on Lake Worth
    http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth40929/
    Aerial photograph of forty airplanes floating on Lake Worth. According to Jeff Rhodes: "On 22 November 1940, Consolidated Aircraft Chief Test Pilot Bill Wheatley contacted newspaper publisher and Fort Worth, Texas, civic booster Amon G. Carter, explaining the company had been ordered to transfer 200 PBY Catalina patrol seaplanes (37 of the aircraft can be seen in this photo) from San Diego, California, to Britain and that the crews were in immediate need of a layover point. In just eight days, Carter, with the help of the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce, arranged for fuel, food, lodging for the flight crews, and moorings for the aircraft in Lake Worth. To keep the mission secret, the public was told the planes were in Fort Worth to weather out a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico. The quick response from Carter and the Chamber of Commerce later helped convince Consolidated Aircraft to build a manufacturing facility in Fort Worth, which is still in operation and today is home to a completely different breed of Cat-- the F-35."

    Last edited by stephen4785; 01-19-2013, 01:25 PM.
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    From what I could look up they´re US Navy PB2Y-5r

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    • #3
      very cool

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      • #4
        Awesome pic!

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        • #5
          I would have loved to see that.
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          • #6
            my dad remembers this from when he was a kid. they lived right off the lake. thats a cool pic.

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            • #7
              my stepmom's dad was a nose gunner on a PBM5A Mariner in the Pacific and in the Korean war and had some pretty cool stories from those days.

              Those are PBY Catalinas, btw, not Coronados like your picture. you can tell by the single vertical stabilizer.
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              • #8
                i don't see 40.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by GT Fanatic View Post
                  i don't see 40.
                  37 in the pic, close enough

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by tribaltalon View Post
                    my stepmom's dad was a nose gunner on a PBM5A Mariner in the Pacific and in the Korean war and had some pretty cool stories from those days.

                    Those are PBY Catalinas, btw, not Coronados like your picture. you can tell by the single vertical stabilizer.
                    And only 2 engines.

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                    • #11
                      What's now Kenneth Copeland Airport (the Douchebag Televangelist's private airport) used to be a Navy Seaplane base. If you go north on Boat Club rd you can see it with high fences and all.

                      If you overfly it you can still see the ramps where they used to take the birds in and out of the water.
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                      • #12
                        awesome pic x2

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                        • #13
                          lol, you a-holes. Dont ever post inaccurate information on this board. One of the reasons I love this forum.

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