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Was it really a Catalina?

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Old 14th Aug 2006, 07:58
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Was it really a Catalina?
Was that a Cat I saw at around 19:00 hours yesterday (Sunday) flying South to North a few miles West of Hungerford services?
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The Catalina from Duxford was, I believe, scheduled to be at Dunkeswell, north of Exmouth, at the weekend so it could well have been what you saw. There's a snap here of it flying at Duxford:
http://www.brendan-mccartney.fotopic.net/p31507591.html
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Cheers HD, the colour scheme looks right. I KNEW my eyes weren't that bad!
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