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| Convair R3Y Tradewind WALK-ROUND |
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| There
are a small number of specialised flying boat photo archive hosts
and none are better than the
San Diego Air & Space Museum Archives
in California, USA. This is simply the finest historic photo image
collection anywhere in the world today, covering a multiple host of
aviation and aerospace genre's, but for me it comes into it's own as
the most fantastic recorder of flying boat activity over the years,
mainly as its location at San Diego was, and remains today, a centre
of U.S.N. aviation.
I am privileged to have walked the concrete on which this specimen of naval flying boat aviation served and these images bring back fond memories of that time and the location. So, here is a beautiful black & white series retained and cared for by the SDASM from the Gordon Permann Collection featuring the Tradewind, especially for those scale modellers who have the Contrail R3Y Tradewind vac-form model to build; note, these images may look very similar but each show different views of the nose and interior structure that will repay very careful attention to the details. Enjoy, and grateful thanks to SDASM for making these superb images available to us. Click on the thumbnail to view the image: |
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