![]() After WW2 the RAAF used Catalina flying boats up until mid 1952 and then withdrew them from service. Passengers on those flights were awarded a certificate affording them membership of “The Secret Order of the Double Sunrise” since the aircraft was inevitably airborne for more than 24 hours.īy the end of the war Catalinas equipped 11, 20, 42, and 43 Sqns, two communications units 6 and 8 and three air-sea rescue flights 111, 112, and 113. This 5,600km Catalina flight maintained a vital mail link between Australia and England from June 1943, departing from the Swan River, Perth heavily laden with fuel and alighting at Lake Koggalla, Ceylon more than 28 hours later. After the fall of Singapore to the Japanese in 1942, QANTAS maintained a secret non-stop air route between Perth and Ceylon. Although slow, the Catalina had tremendous endurance, and could fly very long range sorties. ![]() ![]() Aircraft departing from Rathmines conducted maritime patrols along the Australian east coast to search for roaming Japanese submarines. ![]() RAAF Catalinas more famous missions included the mining of Manila’s Harbour and being involved in the Battle of the Coral Sea. These included aerial reconnaissance, coast watch, minelaying, supplying troops, bombing and air sea rescue missions. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.The Catalina was a very versatile aircraft that could be adapted to a number of mission roles. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using the Brave browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse, then send that data back to a third party, essentially spying on your browsing habits.We strongly recommend you stop using this browser until this problem is corrected. The latest version of the Opera browser sends multiple invalid requests to our servers for every page you visit. ![]() The most common causes of this issue are: Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests. ![]()
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