[Milsurplus] Grumman Duck on silvery screen

[jay_coward at agilent.com]

Hi,
 When I was about 7yrs old I got to sit in the right seat of a Grumman Goose flying from Nassau to Harbor Island in the Bahamas.I sat in the passenger section on the flight back.Takeoff was wild as we bounced along.My father thought the whole airplane would come apart at the seams!I recall water seeping around the rivets.
 Don't know what radios were on board but I'll bet they had dynamotors!
  Jay

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Ah, the memories!!!

Among the most prized pages in my old log book are some dual instruction received
in various Grumman amphibs...Widgeon, Goose, and Duck.  Sorry now that I didn't
get a civilian Multiengine seaplane rating on my civvy license...rarer than hen's
teeth.  :)

Dick

telegrapher at att.net wrote:
> 
> Yep.  They also used on in the pappy Boyington series on TV back in the
> 70's.   Remember seeing folks getting into and out of the bottom trap
> door.
> I might have some paper work on it showing the radio positioning.  dig
> dig..
> 
> Larry
> 
> Unserviceable but Repairable wrote:
> >
> > Murphy's War features one.  W. McQueen & O'Toole in '71
> >
> > What a miscreant that 1993 thing looks to be - there appears to have
> > been seating in the center float!
> >
> > Nothing in the movie about radio installs
> >
> > alas
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