Escape from Loch Ness - The Rescue of Catalina Miss Pickup

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TheGreenGoblin · #41 Post by **TheGreenGoblin** » Wed May 26, 2021 7:42 am

The 2021 Summer edition of Catalina News arrived yesterday and it contains a trilogy on the Miss Pick Up rescue saga, written from the perspectives of three of the dramatis personae. What a saga it appears to have been with the aircraft having just missed being holed beneath the waterline by an errant would be rescue craft. As it was the hull was rented and a plexiglass observation bubble broken. It was a near run thing and the aircraft might have sunk and been lost forever if the weather Gods had not smiled beneficently upon them and Miss Pick Up. Changing an engine on the Loch was no mean feat and the logistical exercise, not to mention, the fund raising in extremis, a tribute to all concerned. Hurrah and well done to all concerned!

CharlieOneSix · #42 Post by **CharlieOneSix** » Fri Oct 01, 2021 10:20 am

On BBC2, 2000, Tuesday 5 October, "Saving Lives At Sea" - some of the programme will be the RNLI's part in getting Miss Pickup off Loch Ness and onto dry land for repairs.

CharlieOneSix · #43 Post by **CharlieOneSix** » Tue Oct 05, 2021 4:59 pm

CharlieOneSix wrote: ↑
Fri Oct 01, 2021 10:20 am
On BBC2, 2000, Tuesday 5 October, "Saving Lives At Sea" - some of the programme will be the RNLI's part in getting Miss Pickup off Loch Ness and onto dry land for repairs.

It's on tonight......

Undried Plum · #44 Post by **Undried Plum** » Tue Oct 05, 2021 5:43 pm

A seaplane landed on a 20 mile long loch.

And then took off again.

Make a movie out of that.

3 - 2 - 1 - go

TheGreenGoblin · #45 Post by **TheGreenGoblin** » Tue Oct 05, 2021 5:48 pm

CharlieOneSix wrote: ↑
Tue Oct 05, 2021 4:59 pm

CharlieOneSix wrote: ↑
Fri Oct 01, 2021 10:20 am
On BBC2, 2000, Tuesday 5 October, "Saving Lives At Sea" - some of the programme will be the RNLI's part in getting Miss Pickup off Loch Ness and onto dry land for repairs.
It's on tonight......

Thanks for the reminder C16. As a paid up member of the Catalina Society I shall be watching with interest.

Undried Plum · #46 Post by **Undried Plum** » Tue Oct 05, 2021 5:59 pm

A single engined landing on a 20 mile piste.

Then a double-engined takeoff from such a constrained place?

It's the stuff of movies, surely.

Which bits are tax-deductable for those who were paid?

Which bits are tax-deductable for those who paid?

TheGreenGoblin · #47 Post by **TheGreenGoblin** » Tue Oct 05, 2021 6:20 pm

Undried Plum wrote: ↑
Tue Oct 05, 2021 5:59 pm
A single engined landing on a 20 mile piste.

Then a double-engined takeoff from such a constrained place?

It's the stuff of movies, surely.

Which bits are tax-deductable for those who were paid?

Which bits are tax-deductable for those who paid?

It has more angles than the Angles, more prow skimming excitment than a Viking Air amphibian, and more power than two Pratt & Whitney R-1830 Twin Wasp engines. Coming to a theatre near you.

The Return of Miss Pickup

Filmed in Extraordinary Loch Around...

Entrance: 7d for Enthusiasts. No entry for grumpy Lowland Curmudgeons

Undried Plum · #48 Post by **Undried Plum** » Tue Oct 05, 2021 6:24 pm

Okay, I give up.

I just won't pay to get out of the fukkin cinema. Ok?

TheGreenGoblin · #49 Post by **TheGreenGoblin** » Tue Oct 05, 2021 6:28 pm

Undried Plum wrote: ↑
Tue Oct 05, 2021 6:24 pm
Okay, I give up.

I just won't pay to get out of the fukkin cinema. Ok?

You no pay, you no leave...

Undried Plum · #50 Post by **Undried Plum** » Tue Oct 05, 2021 6:29 pm

Not fer ra furst time: I'm ****.

TheGreenGoblin · #51 Post by **TheGreenGoblin** » Tue Oct 05, 2021 7:05 pm

Eastbourne base jumping?

What about..?

Undried Plum · #52 Post by **Undried Plum** » Tue Oct 05, 2021 7:27 pm

What was the theme music?

Cue ....

TheGreenGoblin · #53 Post by **TheGreenGoblin** » Tue Oct 05, 2021 7:34 pm

Good bunch of guys. Very skillful. I have flown over Loch Ness 8 times now and have never seen the Loch from water level. Dark and cold. I must visit the area on the ground or water.

Undried Plum · #54 Post by **Undried Plum** » Tue Oct 05, 2021 7:35 pm

Should it be Hans Zimmer?

Y'know. That stuff.

Or should it be better?

Y'know, that stuff.

Bring it on ....

TheGreenGoblin · #55 Post by **TheGreenGoblin** » Tue Oct 05, 2021 7:52 pm

"Nurse, fjord and loch music for Mr Plum please. 2 hrs. He seems rather more irascible than normal tonight!"

Undried Plum · #56 Post by **Undried Plum** » Tue Oct 05, 2021 8:02 pm

Buggah!

I wuzz going to play you some Gemanic Zimmer crap to get you doing that Dutch marching up and down and whacking niggers stuff.

You bastard.

Now you've gone and got me **** up on the Bang og Olufsen with proppa Scandiwegian vibes.

Sneaky trick.

TheGreenGoblin · #57 Post by **TheGreenGoblin** » Tue Oct 05, 2021 8:32 pm

Enough with the Preussens Gloria already!

CharlieOneSix · #58 Post by **CharlieOneSix** » Tue Oct 05, 2021 9:47 pm

Undried Plum wrote: ↑
Tue Oct 05, 2021 5:59 pm
A single engined landing on a 20 mile piste…..

Wrong, UP. The engine wouldn’t start when it came to their planned departure. Can’t work out why your posts on the subject are so cynical. At least TGG and I enjoyed tonight’s programme.

Undried Plum · #59 Post by **Undried Plum** » Tue Oct 05, 2021 10:43 pm

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TGG and I enjoyed tonight’s programme.
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And so much more, as well.

Undried Plum · #60 Post by **Undried Plum** » Tue Oct 05, 2021 10:54 pm

I rather love that Noggie music.

Wozzit wrong with that?

The scenery?

I'm a bit in love that stuff.

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