The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Moored and swinging lightly on Maquarie Lakes, an Australian Catalina flying boat is checked by mechanics. The nose houses a turret for a machine gunmen and a 'venetian blind' covering the window for the bomb aimer.
The pilot and co-pilot are at the controls in the big cabin of a Catalina flying boat. Overhead one of the 1,200 horse power motors is turning the airscrew into a flicking disc.
Watercolour sketch of activities at the Catalina flying boat base in Port Moresby. Two men stand on the jetty undertaking some repairs, while other aircraft are already up in the sky. Dargie noted,
This work depicts a Catalina flying boat undergoing minor repairs at the Royal Australian Air Force Depot at Rose Bay, Sydney. This particular aircraft was manned by Royal Netherlands East Indies pers
A photograph of a Catalina Flying Boat of 43 Squadron taking off from East Arm, Northern Territory with two 1000lb mines under wing. 423947 Flight Lieutenant Richard (Dick) Udy was a wireless operator
An RAAF Consolidated Catalina aircraft, which has been damaged by gunfire in a raid on Port Moresby, is shown. The Catalina was the most widely used flying boat of the war. It flew in all of the major
VIEW FROM BEHIND THE COCKPIT AND NOSE TURRET OF A RAAF CONSOLIDATED CATALINA FLYING BOAT.
