Is anyone out there designing a scale PBY Catalina?

"Tom Osmundson" wrote in message
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Pardon for the earlier triple post, connection was giving me fits...
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kumaros wrote
I recall a French series of nature documentaries filmed in Patagonia
etc.
featuring a huge amphibian twin-engined aircraft, sort of a flying
combination of a house, a boat and an airplane. I wish I could find
the
name of the series.
Kumaros
It's all Greek to me

Oh shoot, can't find the bookmark. I know what you are talking about,
the Explorer by Hubert de Chevigny and Dean Wilson (Dean did the
Private Explorer that was like a single engine winnebago). It had a
pair of 300hp O-540's , grossed 8000 or so, big and boxy, was huge
inside. I think it topped out at 125 mph or kts, can't remember. The
photo I saw it was painted yellow. Gihugic for a pair of O-540's!

AhHa! didn't find the page I found way back when, but found a photo of
it at the bottom of this page...
http://fafagege.free.fr/html/eng/reves.htm

That's it!!! That's the yellow monster of a sea-plane that was featured in
the series. In a couple of "interior" (he, he) shots you could see the tube
fuselage and the insulation as well as the bamboo furniture. Now if I could
only remember the name of the series :-(
So, to come to your original post. Why could you not replicate or even
scale down this one instead of a Catalina?
Kumaros
It's all Greek to me
It's all Greek to me