My geography is terrible. Can someone just confirm to me the location of the coastline in the image. p.s I am not hot linking this from another site! http://www.ww2talk.com/gallery/data/558/medium/889.jpg
It's a PB-1G The aircraft is flying over Far Rockaway, New York. Coast Guard Aircraft Scroll down to the photographs and it's the second picture
Cheers Kyt, was confident it was US but was not willing to look like a tit by first suggesting it just in case.
Just the other day I was thinking about B-17s airdropping lifeboats and how it was done etc. Excellent stable platform for it. I wonder if they had problems with the parachutes dragging the boat under in rough (or any) weather? Some of the surviving, flying B-17s today were ex-lifeboat aircraft: Aero Vintage Books: B-17 Locator Looks like the one at RAF Hendon was a PB-1. Cheers Andy