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KTPhil 
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Louis Naidorf, 96.
You don't know him. But you know his most famous design.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2...dies-at-96
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Jon Schmid
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| Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2025 5:26 pm Post subject: Re: Celebrity Death Watch! Official RIP when they DIE thread... |
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| Jeff Bezos' mother Jacklyn died today at age 78. |
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obus
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finster
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| Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2025 12:05 pm Post subject: Re: Celebrity Death Watch! Official RIP when they DIE thread... |
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Britain's last surviving World War Two Victoria Cross recipient, John Cruickshank, has died aged 105.
The flight lieutenant, from Aberdeen, earned the honour for an attack on a German U-Boat while piloting a Catalina flying boat in June 1944.
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NJ John
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| Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2025 1:10 pm Post subject: Re: Celebrity Death Watch! Official RIP when they DIE thread... |
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Flying boat? Now your just talking silly.
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Fish
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Fish
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| Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2025 1:58 pm Post subject: Re: Celebrity Death Watch! Official RIP when they DIE thread... |
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The last known survivor of the USS Arizona, Lou Conter, has died at the age of 102.
RIP Lou.
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viiking
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| Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2025 3:56 pm Post subject: Re: Celebrity Death Watch! Official RIP when they DIE thread... |
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| Flying boat? Now you’re just talking silly. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolidated_PBY_Catalina
Manufactured in San Diego. I’ve seen a few landing and taking off in SD Bay. A large post war fleet use to fly people from Long Beach to Santa Catalina Island. |
I can remember in the 50's and 60's as a small child watching the Catalinas taking off in Rose Bay, Sydney Harbour and wondering how they cleared the harbour of yachts and skiffs off their "runway". No way you could easily do that today with the amount of boats in the harbour. There is also a beautiful restaurant called Catalina in Rose Bay in homage to that history if you are ever in the area.
http://www.seaplanes.com.au/history/
Flying boats were used from the 30's to fly 14 passenger Empire flying boats from Sydney to London. A short 10 day trip compared to 40 days by ship.
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Abscate
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| Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2025 5:01 pm Post subject: Re: Celebrity Death Watch! Official RIP when they DIE thread... |
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Catalina’s Also caught Nazi subs off the East coast in 42-43.
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cdennisg
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| Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2025 5:28 pm Post subject: Re: Celebrity Death Watch! Official RIP when they DIE thread... |
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| Fish wrote: |
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| Flying boat? Now you’re just talking silly. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolidated_PBY_Catalina
Manufactured in San Diego. I’ve seen a few landing and taking off in SD Bay. A large post war fleet use to fly people from Long Beach to Santa Catalina Island. |
For many years there was a PBY living here on Lake Pend Oreille. I was on a pay phone with my dad one time back in the 90's when the PBY was taking off, and he instantly identified it by the sound.
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HMVWNAB
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| Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2025 5:28 pm Post subject: Re: Celebrity Death Watch! Official RIP when they DIE thread... |
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Surfing icon Dale Webster, a California native who set the record for most consecutive days surfing, has died.
Webster, also known as the “Daily Wavester” because of the incredible feat, passed away in Rohnert Park, Calif, his family confirmed |
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photogdave
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| Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2025 7:27 pm Post subject: Re: Celebrity Death Watch! Official RIP when they DIE thread... |
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| cdennisg wrote: |
| Fish wrote: |
| NJ John wrote: |
| Flying boat? Now you’re just talking silly. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolidated_PBY_Catalina
Manufactured in San Diego. I’ve seen a few landing and taking off in SD Bay. A large post war fleet use to fly people from Long Beach to Santa Catalina Island. |
For many years there was a PBY living here on Lake Pend Oreille. I was on a pay phone with my dad one time back in the 90's when the PBY was taking off, and he instantly identified it by the sound. |
There's still a flying boat operating here on Vancouver Island: a Grumman Goose, the plane featured in TV shows like Tales of the Gold Monkey.
I took a cruiser flight on it last summer. Amazing experience!
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Bobs67vwagen
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| Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2025 5:31 am Post subject: Re: Celebrity Death Watch! Official RIP when they DIE thread... |
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| PBY Catalina's were very versatile during WW2. It was a PBY searching for the Japanese fleet that made the 1st sighting of elements of that fleet before the battle of Midway began. As stated they were used for anti submarine operations in all theaters and also operated by the British and Australians. I think I remember reading a few years ago that the last flyable example in th US had crashed and was a total loss. |
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finster
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Ronnie Rondell Jr - who was famously set alight for the front cover of Pink Floyd's iconic Wish You Were Here album cover - has died at the age of 88.
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finster
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Actor Terence Stamp, star of Superman films, dies aged 87
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photogdave
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cdennisg
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| Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2025 10:41 am Post subject: Re: Celebrity Death Watch! Official RIP when they DIE thread... |
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| finster wrote: |
| Ronnie Rondell Jr - who was famously set alight for the front cover of Pink Floyd's iconic Wish You Were Here album cover - has died at the age of 88. |
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chickengeorge
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| Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2025 12:10 pm Post subject: Re: Celebrity Death Watch! Official RIP when they DIE thread... |
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| Actor Terence Stamp, star of Superman films, dies aged 87 |
He was great. I just watched him in the 1984 film "The Hit" last week. And who could forget "The Limey"?
He was always a presence. |
And one of my faves..Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. |
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| Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2025 2:00 pm Post subject: Re: Celebrity Death Watch! Official RIP when they DIE thread... |
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| chickengeorge wrote: |
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| Actor Terence Stamp, star of Superman films, dies aged 87 |
He was great. I just watched him in the 1984 film "The Hit" last week. And who could forget "The Limey"?
He was always a presence. |
And one of my faves..Priscilla, Queen of the Desert. |
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: No more fucking ABBA!
Great film. And he was great in it.
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