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Offline olds442

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Re: PBY5-A
« Reply #150 on: December 23, 2011, 05:47:27 PM »
you get shot down a squadie comes and picks you up. you land what ever kills/damge you had and no perks lost
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Re: PBY5-A
« Reply #151 on: December 23, 2011, 05:50:27 PM »
Quote from: olds442 on December 23, 2011, 05:47:27 PM
you get shot down a squadie comes and picks you up. you land what ever kills/damge you had and no perks lost

Yeah, but you lost the plane, so you should still lose the perks. Takes away some of the fear in taking up uber ride IMHO.

I'm cool with the landing of kills/damage though for full points
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Re: PBY5-A
« Reply #152 on: December 29, 2011, 08:41:25 PM »
just sayin, with the storch being added, the PBY-5A would do everything the storch can do, (just that it could land on water as well)
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Re: PBY5-A
« Reply #153 on: December 29, 2011, 09:19:03 PM »
Quote from: SpencAce on December 29, 2011, 08:41:25 PM
just sayin, with the storch being added, the PBY-5A would do everything the storch can do, (just that it could land on water as well)
The PBY was most definitely not an army close cooperation aircraft capable of short landings and take offs in rough terrain.
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Re: PBY5-A
« Reply #154 on: December 30, 2011, 01:25:54 AM »
Quote from: Karnak on December 29, 2011, 09:19:03 PM
The PBY was most definitely not an army close cooperation aircraft capable of short landings and take offs in rough terrain.

Fully loaded PBY could take up to 3 miles before it was able to take off from the water. 

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Re: PBY5-A
« Reply #155 on: December 30, 2011, 02:01:52 PM »
Quote from: Ack-Ack on December 30, 2011, 01:25:54 AM
Fully loaded PBY could take up to 3 miles before it was able to take off from the water. 

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« Reply #156 on: December 30, 2011, 04:12:18 PM »
What would my comment have to do with owning Google stock?  Or are you implying that I Googled that info instead of reading the few books I have on the PBY Catalina and its operations in the Pacific?

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Re: PBY5-A
« Reply #157 on: December 30, 2011, 05:15:19 PM »
     Well it's probably what he would have done Ak  :D
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Re: PBY5-A
« Reply #158 on: December 30, 2011, 05:17:35 PM »
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Re: PBY5-A
« Reply #159 on: December 31, 2011, 04:44:21 AM »
PBY with airborne search dar, or RDF??? Hell yes!
Flying dumbo for my buddies??? Hell yes!
I'd take my turn, just to be a good sport!
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Re: PBY5-A
« Reply #160 on: December 31, 2011, 10:24:40 AM »
Quote from: PAKFRONT on December 31, 2011, 04:44:21 AM
PBY with airborne search dar, or RDF??? Hell yes!
Flying dumbo for my buddies??? Hell yes!
I'd take my turn, just to be a good sport!
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No, that would be giving it capabilities it did not have.  Airborne radar ranges in WWII were very short and during the day the Eyeball Mk I was superior.
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Re: PBY5-A
« Reply #161 on: December 31, 2011, 10:39:18 AM »
Quote from: Karnak on December 31, 2011, 10:24:40 AM
No, that would be giving it capabilities it did not have.  Airborne radar ranges in WWII were very short and during the day the Eyeball Mk I was superior.

I don't recall doing heavy research on the Radar's available during the war, probably need to start digging the info up.

I know many units were using sound detectors at the start of the war, if they were lucky they might of had a radar unit (in the pacific where mountains were perfect like at Moresby, a radar unit could detect Raids out of Rubaul taking off).

Although by this time in the war, Rubaul was a death trap.
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Re: PBY5-A
« Reply #162 on: December 31, 2011, 10:50:59 AM »
Quote from: Karnak on December 31, 2011, 10:24:40 AM
No, that would be giving it capabilities it did not have.  Airborne radar ranges in WWII were very short and during the day the Eyeball Mk I was superior.
I think Search Radar was used mostly to provide vectors for visual recon more than anything else. In service PBYs were used to test and evaluate search radar technology as it was developed. RDF was standard equipment from the early part of the war onward. If you examine many of the pictures available closely, you'll note LOTS of Interesting Antenna sprouting thruout the war.
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Re: PBY5-A
« Reply #163 on: December 31, 2011, 11:18:39 AM »
The AVS MKII had a max range of 100 miles min range of 1 mile. First deployed on PBY5s in 1942 with the 2 antenna array 1 send 1 rec. In 43 a switch was added for 1 antenna use and was put in the dome over the cockpit.
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« Reply #164 on: December 31, 2011, 02:52:55 PM »
By the end of the war, Lanks and B29s were bombing by radar image of the ground.. USN and RN had Airborne Radar effective enough to detect snorkels.. Just recently I learned that even the Japanese had an airborne surface search radar set.. By the time it was ready for use by IJN flying boats, it no longer mattered.. Wanna find the American Fleet??? There it is, right there, they ain't hidin no more, lol!
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