The Coast Guard station in San Diego still has its ramps to the harbor that were used by PBY’s when they were in service. Hello, When we were sailing in the San Diego Harbor, the Coast Guard Station was the only place where a ramp was led into the harbor. The water area in front of the station was our sail take down area due to the wind angle, calm water area and in direct line with our boat dock. The Coronado Navy base has one ramp we also saw while sailing many times in that portion across the bay. But, it looked like only those smaller floatation boats could land there and use the ramp. This plane photo looks more like the one in the 50s restaurant photo. Two motors not 4... not the larger Mars Martin Flying Boat Jnaki The years we were in the San Diego Harbor, sailing weekly, that harbor had so much activity, but was big enough to sail in the large bay, especially on the weekdays. We tried sailing on a Saturday, but there were sailboat races in various parts of the bay, weekend powerboat folks just cruising around and lots of boats of all sorts in general using the vast waters. It is as close to the tall downtown skyline area + the other activities going on all over the bay. Zillion dollar homes past the Coronado Bridge and still empty areas with no one else using the protected waters to the Baja, Mexico region at the Southern end. YRMV
Thanks Jnaki,but if you look closer at the tail plane you will see the distintive dihedral mounted atopthe tail. Alsothe hull would seem to be much larger than than the mighty Catalina(as called by Aussie RAAF crew in WW11. Hope this helps. And thanks for all you're info-fact reports. Cheers.
This is actually a Fokker F-10 which was a competitor to the Ford Tri-Motor as an early airliner. Fokker was a Dutch company with operations in the United States. However, in 1931 a Fokker F-10 literally fell out of the sky due to a wing failure killing everyone on board including famous Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne. The publicity was so negative that Fokker was finished as an aircraft company in the US. The crash did lead to much more stringent aircraft inspections; especially for public transport planes.
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