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| PBY Catalina Tune-up |
I don't know, but I suspect those two guys (there are two of them, you can see another pair of legs dangling, presumably from the guy sitting on the other side of the engine), these two guys are trying to diagnose some kind of a problem. Examining the engine while it was not running didn't produce any evidence of the problem, so they fired up the engines to see if they could figure it out. I suspect the seats are part of the normal maintenance rigging, whether they are on land or water. During the war, I wouldn't be surprised if they the left the aircraft sitting in the water instead of driving up on the land every time they landed. Shoot, some places probably didn't have any ramps onto the land.
Notice the big bulb attached to the top of the cockpit. It's a radome which means this is probably from 1945.
I came across this picture on my one of the sites I regularly visit, but I failed to make a note of it and now I don't know where I found it.
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