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Old August 1st 03, 07:07 PM
Merlin Dorfman
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The somewhat obscure comic strip, "Sherman's Lagoon," had a
fairly creditable PBY in its July 20 cartoon:
http://www.slagoon.com/dailies/SL03.07.27.gif. I'm not aware of
any PBYs that are used as water bombers (don't think they'd be very
good at it...) but this strip has had realistic WW II aircraft
previously--a TBF/TBM a couple of years ago IIRC.
Does anybody know whether the artist (Jim Toomey) is a WW II
or airplane buff?

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Old August 2nd 03, 03:28 AM
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"Merlin Dorfman" wrote in message
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The somewhat obscure comic strip, "Sherman's Lagoon," had a
fairly creditable PBY in its July 20 cartoon:
http://www.slagoon.com/dailies/SL03.07.27.gif. I'm not aware of
any PBYs that are used as water bombers (don't think they'd be very
good at it...) but this strip has had realistic WW II aircraft
previously--a TBF/TBM a couple of years ago IIRC.


I believe the beginning of the film "Always" had a PBY taking on water in
the same manner.


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Old August 2nd 03, 04:41 PM
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The somewhat obscure comic strip, "Sherman's Lagoon," had a
fairly creditable PBY in its July 20 cartoon:
http://www.slagoon.com/dailies/SL03.07.27.gif. I'm not aware of
any PBYs that are used as water bombers (don't think they'd be very
good at it...)



I believe the beginning of the film "Always" had a PBY taking on water in
the same manner.


Most of the PBY's used for fire fighting have been reengined with Wright R-2600
hundred engines which is probably what makes them satisfactory for that
demanding work. Not sure though how many are still active in that role.

John Dupre'
 




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