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**Richard Casady**

On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:55:16 GMT, (Richard
Casady) wrote:

orst weather in the world, Falklands area is bad, further south is
worse.
It would be rather foolish to depend upon seaplanes for supply.
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It would cost quite a bit more, I suspect.

There is a weight penalty [less range] with a flying boat, and
distances are long in that part of the world.

New Zealand uses C-130's for search and rescue. When It comes to
fishing survivors of sinkings out of the water, a flying boat would
probably have considerably more range than a helocopter, and faster
too. Good as it is, the C-130 cannot land in mid ocean. The best it
can do is drop supplies. The New Zealands do have a good record at SAR
using them. however. I think the market is limited for this and
everything else, and so it won't happen.

Casady