Seaplane Landing Direction ?

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Similar to the PBY 5 catalina? Just curious as I'm wondering what
the flight conditions would be like in war time...would the
envelope be pushed a bit?


Remember the story about the PBY that picked up folks from
Doolittle's raid over Japan? So many of the B-26s ditched and so
many folks needed a ride, that they couldn't take off. Ended up
'taxiing' to safety with folks all over the plane, some even out on
the wings...



No Catalinas picked up anyone from Doolittle's raid. And they flew
B-25's


Bertie


Yea, it would be a pretty neat trick to get a b-26 off a carrier
without a shot...


From what I've heard about them, I would think so!
Bob Heever got one of a beach in Italy during WW2. It was real short.
They took everythign they could off of it and put only enough fuel in to
get it to a strip close by.
Doolittle had a lot of trouble with the introduction of the B26 amongst
his crews in North Africa. They were intimidated by it's high wing
loading and the resultant high approach and liftoff speeds. His solutin
was to take one up and put on a display for them. IIRC, he looped it at
ground level and feathered one at the top of the loop, then proceeded to
do a series of low level aerobatic manuevers with one out. his plan
worked.


Bertie