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

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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


Yes, B-25s...and I don't know where I got that PBY story, but it
happened somewhere in WWII...Maybe Kontiki's account is the beginning
of it...



Oh I'm sure there's lots of them. But those B-25s were flying off the
edge of the earth, basically.

If you want a good read, read "Thirty seconds over Tokyo". It's an
absolutely fantastic story.
And now you've got me thinking I'd like to read a bit about Catalina
operations.


I pulled "Thirty seconds over Tokyo" off the library shelf back in 6th grade or so. Yes, very interesting story....

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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

Yea, it was a good bird if flown within its limits (just like any other?), but I still don't think one all loaded up
could get off a carrier...

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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

Yea, it was a good bird if flown within its limits (just like any
other?), but I still don't think one all loaded up could get off a
carrier...



I wouldn't think so, unless it was a real fast carrier!

I wonder what one on a treadmill would be like.

Bertie