Just in case anyone missed it, see the link in this new post
http://www.pprune.org/aviation-histo...ml#post7794081
A must read for those who have watched "The Last African Flying Boat" - post #45.
I hadn't realized that the Catalina in this documentary is ZK-PBY, now in New Plymouth. I had a look around her in November and watched an anti-det run of the engines from the cockpit. She's in a sad state at the moment, with one wing off, but the plan is to fix some minor corrosion on the trailing edge (minor from an airframe point-of-view, but major from a labour point-of-view) and replace the fabric.