Author Topic: PBY-5 Catailna (Read 357 times)

Gopher · « **on:** August 24, 2006, 04:51:39 PM »

Imagine troops setting just off the coast !
Goon pilot's dream:cool:

Krusty · « **Reply #1 on:** August 24, 2006, 04:52:24 PM »

It didn't have benches and room like a C47 did, silly. It was rather cramped inside. It's a flying boat, not a transport!

Gopher · « **Reply #2 on:** August 24, 2006, 05:05:31 PM »

Beg to differ

Quote from Wikipedia online Encyclopedia

"In World War II, PBYs were used as anti-submarine warfare aircraft, patrol bombers, convoy escorts, search and rescue aircraft, and transports. The Catalina can be considered the most successful aircraft of its kind, as no other flying boat was produced in greater numbers. The last active military Catalinas were not retired from service until the 1980s. Even today, over seventy years after its first flight, the aircraft continues to fly as an airtanker in aerial firefighting operations all over the world."

Krusty · « **Reply #3 on:** August 24, 2006, 05:17:29 PM »

Cargo transports, not people transports. Crates and such. It doesn't have a big cavernous hold or anything.

Plus, don't rely on Wikipedia for anything. Trust me on this

There's no way to tell what is utterly false and what is right, and there is a lot that's not right.

Gopher · « **Reply #4 on:** August 24, 2006, 05:37:33 PM »

I went and looked at a cutaway,And I must admit you appear correct
salute

But I did see at one time a C47 with pontoons ! that will do.

wish i knew how to post a pix

Wolf14 · « **Reply #5 on:** August 24, 2006, 06:10:09 PM »

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Originally posted by Gopher
But I did see at one time a C47 with pontoons ! that will do.

wish i knew how to post a pix

I have seen a picture of one as well posted at the community airport. One of the mechanics said it took almost every bit of its power to keep it flying and that was with it being unloaded.

Guess them pontoons suffer a combination of being heavy and causing alot of drag for their size.

Still I'd like to see one up close actualy sitting in the water.

Grayeagle · « **Reply #6 on:** August 25, 2006, 12:34:26 PM »

Been inside one at Van Nuys years ago.. only real 'room' is in the blister area ..they excelled at pickin up downed airmen ..I don't imagine they could carry nearly as much as the goony.

Tuff to beat for patrol in early WW2.. they were there when we needed em

-GE

bj229r · « **Reply #7 on:** August 26, 2006, 09:41:25 AM »

My pop was a Lt. Cmdr in ww2, flew those things in Phillipines...had fond memories of it (flew DC3's aFTER the war)