Seaplanes thread Because hunting down air pirates around beautiful

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>>31926899
Looks like a fish, a very fast fish

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QowTqmxYZ1Q

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Hey babe, maybe after this you can push my throttle to 46" of manifold pressure, if you know what I mean.

> tfw no PBY party

Do ekranoplans count?

>>31926879
Tbh, a strangereal 1930s in an archipelago with lots of seaplanes would be a comfy setting for a video game, book, or rpg

>>31929198
>seaplane
>ground effect vehicle

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>>31926879
The UBF-2 from Indiana Jones was pretty cool. I'd rather one of the enclosed ones with a cabin though.

>tfw you will never fly around the Caribbean drinking more rum than a pirate while banging newlyweds in your bitchin' seaplane

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ReyS9i9BJg

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>tfw you can't hunt down other asshole seaplanes hunting down air pirates around beautiful archipelagos

https://youtu.be/oT4H6PLNdww

>tfw you will never fly in a sea plane
>tfw you will never base out of a small island or archipelago and kick sea pirate ass / become a sea pirate
>tfw you will never get hot bar singers because of how cool you are with your seaplane

KILL ME, END IT NOWWWWW

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>>31926879
Gramps was a radioman in a PBY-Cat in Black Cat Squadron, but the Sunderland just tickles my pickle something fierce.

shame they never tried to floatplane the 323 Gigant. shit would be so cash

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>>31929269
The two are not mutually exclusive.

>>31926879
Have to agree. They're my fetish.

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Be-103.

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so cool

>>31926879
Potentially stupid question, but it seems the place to ask it.

Could a C-130 potentially be made into a seaplane?
AC-130 pirate ship when?>>31926899

>>31929471
you would have to waterseal every single point on it, treat it against water damage, and install drop down floats on the wings to prevent rolls and probably fabricate a keel for the bottom, but in theory it might work

>>31929471
given how the armament is located around the same height as the landing gear, id say no
but perhaps it would be possible to raise the floor on which the gunners stand and thus be able to place the weaponsystems higher
although im pretty sure the guns are placed so low in order to have the most depression and such
still, 10/10 would watch AC-130's of the Caribbean

>>31929385
Black cats were pretty sweet, and the shit they did was unbelievable. Like dive bombing a jap warship in pitch black darkness, and hauling ass at 130 mph trying to get away from the return fire.

Did he ever tell you any stories that you can remember?

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>>31929536
Water tight gun ports that you seal during landing?

An AC-130 seaplane makes my peepee feel funny.

>>31929568
clever idea,
i suppose you could put the weapons on hinges or have them slide inwards

>>31929579
also, i just realized you could fly towards the target posing as a C-130, then hoist the VFA-103 flag and open your gun ports
maybe even board them a la Air Force one

>>31929261
Porco Rosso, mein neger

>>31929550
nah. he never regaled me with war stories because I was very young when he passed. I did however see an npc with his name in the black cat level on world at war, so that was nice.
more on gramps (mom's side)
He was a pole who married a german in the 20s and they got the fuck out of dodge in the 30s, he signed up with the navy and because he had electronics experience wound up in black cat as a radioman. he kept playing with radios after the war, set up his own radio tower (which pissed off the neighbors) and even worked with NASA for one of the Apollo missions (i forget which; most of what i learned about him was second hand from my dad.

my only regret was not visiting him more before he passed. he only lived a few blocks away.

>>31929261
>what is Crimson Skies

>>31929579
>slide inwards
You're add a lot of weight and maintenance here.

Best thing would be to position the guns high on the fuselage. Or just hang a targeting pod and hellfire missles on the wings.

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:)

This thread has successfully made me want to writefag a story about a world where Sky Pirates and sea Pirates fight over archipelagos and just try to service in a weird waterworld kind of setting.

Fuck.

>>31929762
>implying seapirates wouldn't strike a deal with skypirates to scout and harass their targets.

>implying there wouldn't be hotshot bountyhunters in their own seaplanes who hunt down the pirates for renown/dosh

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>>31929591
It'd be cooler with multiple gun decks though.

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The Duck.
Great shots of one in Murphy's War.

>>31929762
>This thread has successfully made me want to writefag a story about a world where Sky Pirates and sea Pirates fight over archipelagos and just try to service in a weird waterworld kind of setting.
Literally Porco Rosso

>>31929762
>implying seapirates and skypirates aren't the same thing
>implying they aren't smaller groups that occasionally get contracted and/or subcontracted to do various jobs
They work better when you make them mercenaries and privateers as well as pirates.

>>31929612
goddamn how i played that game on my pc back in the day. true dieselpunk that made me want to don a leather jacket and dogfight through the streets of new york

>>31929887
A very /k/ movie.

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>>31929936

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>>31929596
Now i need to rewatch that movie

>i might be a pig, but at least im not a fascist

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>>31929476
Just a bant m8

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>>31930023
Anyone else think the best version is the french one with Jean Reno as Porco?

>>31930023
I need to build a plant of Macchi M.5 and organize seaplane races in the Adriatic Sea

for a long time I've wanted to learn how to fly a float plane for visiting kettle lakes in the north. this thread has given me a boner for ocean-going planes

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Don't have the coloured one on hand

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>>31930096
Well that´s a given.

>signaling between planes are done with hand signals and semaphores
Its the details of the interbellum period that has my romanticism going 10/10

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Books related. Haven't read them since I was like 12, so no promises, but they're largely responsible for my airship/sky pirate fetish.

>>31930023
Ill have to give that a shot. As it stands I'm about to resort to Talespin to keep scratching the itch.

I don't usually post any of my serious writefaggotry on 4chan, but I might just do a short skypirate writefag in the writefag thread if anyone's interested.

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>>31930181
I'm interested

>No Dornier-24 a.k.a. prettiest boatplane in the universe
Worthless thread.

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>>31930239
Trash pic.

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Will we ever see a seaplane this big again?
Howard Hughes was a based man.

>>31930197
Give me a fantasy/reality spectrum. My usual fare is hard science fiction, and I'm probably going to be a stickler for aircraft performance and behavior either way, but with respect to environment, characters, and specific aircraft?

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>>31930239
B I G

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>>31930268
>B I G

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>>31930023
>>31930095
>not posting the sexy-ass H6K4

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>>31930313
Big picture.
>tfw no Wiking

>>31930263
Well here you have some inspiration that almost made me teary eyed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUjgk1N7728

>>31930326
cool Catalina

>>31929936
That fuckin intro though

>duh duuuh duuh DUH da DUUUUUUUUUUUUHHH

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uVJ-9qDado

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>>31930330
>tfw no flying submarine supply ships

>>31930352
Shh.

https://youtu.be/YqLr0Qy-DyE

>>31930181
I enjoyed the first two as a kid, Skybreaker especially. Never got around to the last one.

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>>31930363
And now i have a an air pirate boner while laughing in an Errol Flynn manner

>HA HA HA have at the KAAAAAHN

>>31929385
Sweet Sunderland. "Flying Porcupine". My Grandfather was a gunner/navigator/radioman on one during WW2.

They were tasked with anti-submarine work. They shot up and sank a surfaced German U boat once, and dropped a couple of liferafts to the survivors. The survivers became POWs, and my Grandfather became good friends with one of them who had lost a leg in the process. I remember the German coming to visit my Grandfather multiple times in Australia as late as the 1980's.

They must have had some awesome conversations...

>>31930346
Fuck, fuck, I cried. Alright, working on it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4JdQi60an0

Ad related.

>>31930399
Skybreaker was my favorite too, though I fell in love with Aurora. Starclimber is unfortunately only okay in my book.

>>31930453
>German coming to visit my Grandfather multiple times in Australia
>Prisoners visiting other prisoners on a prison colony island
Birds of a feather

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>Diary found of the body of captain Heinrich 4 may, 1929
>we have found the american research station, they seem to have burned their own base down in what we can only assume was cabin fever.
>two bodies where found frozen stiff just at the edge of the camp, one aryan with a great beard and one negro, they seem to have shared a bottle of some spirit called "wild turkey" in their final hours of delirium.

>Klaus has been behaving strangely since we found the camp.

A tupolev ANT 22, probably the heaviest seaplane bomber ever made.

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>>31930741
opps forgot pic

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>>31929612

>>31929645
I don't know if the weight would be that big of an issue. C-130 can take a lot of weight. Besides, I'd advocate for hinges over sliding. Cheaper, easier to repair, and probably easier to seal.

>>31929762
>>31929783
>>31929928
>makeithappen.jpg

Honestly if I wasn't such a shit writer I'd try writing something too. This interests me in just the right way.

>>31929925
>Porco Rosso
Time to google then.

>>31931230
is steve the plane or the car?

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amateurs!

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>>31931268

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>>31931281

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>>31931295

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>>31931357
aand i think im out

>>31930346
>>31930263
>>31930197
>>31930181

Pair of young, hopeful naturalists voyage south in something resembling a Catalina to study Caribbean species hoping to find some Galapagos tier shit on an island somewhere and gain national recognition. They finance this with shady, risky cargo runs between islands, many of which are home to pirates etc vying for power and supplies. Gradually become bounty hunters and smugglers.

Here's your prologue:
Jonathan didn’t like frogs anymore. He was maybe a week deep, though he hadn’t kept careful track, and it didn’t matter all those lazy summers sitting by the pond, wading in the swamp, catching fish, catching crawdads, catching frogs. It didn’t matter that first night he’d spent out there with his mother at seven in the old, tattered tent that fought the rain with every last fiber. It didn’t matter the fort he built in the twisted trees and the days he spent there, watching and reading. All those frogs he’d kept. The ones in the jars and bowls he’d fought his father for the right to keep. He built little habitats for them in there; they’d sing him to sleep.
He met Kathy in that swamp; she collected lizards. She was going to be a naturalist, she said. They were eleven and twelve and friends in an hour, and by the end of it he was going to be a naturalist too. But that night didn’t matter, or the night, years later, when the slept together in the muggy twilight with fireflies for bedfellows.
(1/?)

>>31931565
He’d thought that was funny or appropriate or something because she still carried the ratty plush firefly he’d found at a flea market when he was twelve. He’d given it to her that night, all those years ago, the first time he asked her to marry him. He was twelve and she was thirteen and of course it didn’t mean a damn thing, but he still counted it among the times he’d tried. Five, now. Somehow it was always positive and never conclusive, but if she was leading him on for some purpose she’d have pulled the rug by now. He’d given up trying but not hoping. The frogs sang them to sleep.
It wasn’t even melancholy to remember; he’d only to roll over to see her on the opposite bunk, that old firefly tucked under an arm same as ever. He didn’t even think they were different people now. None of the birthdays had mattered, not even the one four months ago when he’d turned twenty a few weeks after she’d turned twenty-one. Pooling their money, buying the airplane, and flying away didn’t change a damn thing between them. He kept waiting for it, good or bad: Maybe the first time the rushing water under the hull subsided into the cool whistle of air. Maybe that first night in Avalon in the bar after they’d landed and moored. Maybe somewhere in the moonlit clouds that bathed them in the days following as they flew south over the horizon and over the horizon again. Maybe the Southern Cross, when it first clawed its way up from the horizon. He thought he’d understand then. He waited for something to click or to snap, once even checked his watch for it, but to date it’d never happened. Not in Guatemala, not Havana, not ever. He supposed he was still waiting.
(2/?)

>>31931580
>>31931565
Maybe it kept him up at night; if so he wasn’t sure why. He had better things to keep him up at night. All in all though, if he had to guess, he’d have pointed the causal relationship in the other direction. He worried about that because he didn’t want to worry about things worth his worry. He worried at all because he was up all night. He was up all night because of the fucking frogs.
They were louder here, more than he could have imagined, and cried in diverse caughoughony. Chirps. Ribbits. Shrieks. One of the toad species sounded like a machine gun being fired in a well in the middle distance, or perhaps many coconuts falling at once on rocks. And they were everywhere. Trees and bushes sure, but only the first night. After that there was no telling. Stay any longer than a few hours and you’re plucking them out of the bilge for days and fishing them from the hollow of the wing with lengths of bent metal and crowbars. He’d even found one dead in the fuel tank once, and one in the little cupboard over the tiny stove behind the flight deck. The cupboard frog had been a bullfrog, nothing dangerous. Kathy had confirmed, just to be sure, and he’d cooked the thing. It hadn’t been any good. Fucking frogs. Something moist slid over his cheek and he swatted at it. His pillow flopped to the floor. Evidently he’d drooled on it. He checked outside for light and found a little. Too late to sleep; he’d get nowhere. If he was going to worry he ought to worry working; god knows there was plenty to worry about. Why had he agreed to the proposal at the bar last night?
(3/4)

>>31931590
>>31931580
>>31931565
Why hadn’t she stopped him? He supposed it was because he hadn’t said. It was for the best; it had to be. Their savings was almost gone. Maybe their dreams of finding new species and gaining national recognition and the like had all been very romantic; maybe he’d known it. All the same if they went broke now it would all have been for nothing, and just maybe today would be the day he and Kathy would click or snap. He hauled himself to his feet and the deck rolled subtly under his shifting weight. Sleepily he fished out the pump and kicked open the bilge. Fucking frogs.

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I promise I'll get to the /k/, but I usually go for a little bit of a slow burn. Look for more coming in writefag threads; I guess I'll be a tripfag for a little while. Open to suggestions etc; I'll probably write this as a novella/serial.

>>31929261
Nobody has said Tailspin yet?

>>31930568
Who goes there?

>>31930181
>>31931673
Is it worth watching even if you didn't grow up with it?

>>31931673
Pretty sure that mention of it in the preceding general plane thread is what set this thread off.

That said, it's at least inspired by an earlier series: Tales of the Gold Monkey.

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>>31930181
Tfw you have head cannon with operator tier pirate hunting bounty hunters conducting ship to ship raids using 1940s era firearms. Pic semi related but with ski masks and web gear/climbing harnesses and swapping out the mp5 with a Sten gun or grease gun.

>>31926902
WTF, I live in Sartrouville and never knew there used to be a plane factory.
SAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUCEEEEE
MOAR INFO REEEEEEEEE.

>>31932002
> cLIPS
> Clips
> cLIPS

>>31929476
I came

>>31926879
Sky Captain of Yesteryear!

>>31927332
That is pretty cool. Is there a full version of that documentary out there?