Wednesday, October 10, 2007

CELEBRATING FLIGHT


A fly past by a group of keen pilots had aircraft going everywhere!
An Air Force base for Catalina Aircraft was once at Rathmines on Lake Macquarie.
Crews trained there and joined WW2 efforts in reconnaissance, bombing and all that, up as far as Papua New Guinea. Women worked as mechanics as well.
A fly past and entertainment seemed to be commemorating those deeds. The wings on these aircraft have boyancy devices and the prop is set high up to keep out of water.

2 comments:

Hyderabad Daily Photo said...

That looks like the lake in the background. Very nice!

Margaret Chandra said...

How did you get the skull and crossbones?