For the benefit of my Canadian friends, I will get this out of the way first. Despite what the operators say and what is written on their signage, this plane is a Canso, not a PBY Catalina. Okay, with that out of the way, the plane came to the Olympic Air Show in Olympia. It looked excellent in its dark grey painting and had plenty of people around it on the ramp before it flew its display. As with many planes of its vintage, it has lots of lumps and bumps. I decided to spend a little time looking at some of the details rather than the whole plane.
Of course, you have to get some larger shots of the plane. You can’t just stare at the rivets. Also, I knew it would be flying and I would aim to get some shots of it then but that can be another post at some point. For this, the bulbous curves of the nose area and the details of the bits that make it a flying boat were the focus.
