Catalina

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>>33425928
>PBY
ugly as fuck desu

BF-109 E3 is the best looking plane. I cannot be persuaded otherwise.

>>33425998
Bf109 is nice, but I could live in a PBY

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>>33425928

>>33425928
You will never outfit a PBY as a badass houseboat that also flies. Summers on the lakes of Alaska, winter in the waters of the tropics seducing senoritas with your flying boat, strafing shipping in the off season. Why live?

>>33426284
Goddamn Anon I can't handle these feels

>>33426284

fuck m8

>>33425928
Because. You like THICC
Planes...

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>>33426284
>tfw no giant mechanical nightmare flying house

>>33425998

>tiny as fuck
>can only stay in flight for just over an hour or less even
>a lot less attractive once yellow is gone
>flimsy as shit
>ww1-relic gun mounts

the 109 is pretty shittu des

>>33426284
Se live to someday do it

>>33426284
Why is my life such suffering

>>33426284
http://www.messynessychic.com/2014/04/24/all-aboard-the-flying-yacht-circa-1950/

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>>33426391
This >>33426048 could be you, except instead of only being balls deep in a .50, you could be balls deep in a dusky qt and a .50 on your way from Barranquilla to Sealand to drop some ordinance.

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>>33426504

imagine how I feel reading all this after pouring my heart and soul into >>>33426358

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>not submitting to the superior flying boat

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>>33426495
Not getting to share a bunk with two blonde qts on a long flight to Monaco in a Catalina converted into a Bond-esque sex yacht in the best decade the world has known.
JUST FUCKING KILL ME NOW! I HATE THIS GAY EARTH!!

>>33426585
this

>>33426601
And I just realized that's a 100% wool blanket. Fuck, impeccable taste.

>>33426601
She looks like Scarlett Johannsen on the left

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>>33425998
[laughs in victor]

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Once you go black!

>>33426585
My grandfather was a Sunderland gunner/navigator/radio operator in WW2. Awesome plane; he had nothing but love for them.

>>33426631
spitfires are washed up poster child vanilla flying shitboxes.

faggots like you who refuse to acknowledge anything beyond allied aircraft and call everybody else wehraboos are fucking cancer

kill yourself

>>33426634
I can't find much about these beyond they ran night ops and were apparently top tier shit. What made them so special? Any stories?

>>33426585
>Superior Flying boat
>Short Sutherland and not a PBM Mariner

Okay

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>>33426661
Getting a bit salty because your pretty boy got assraped, eh?
Besides, the best looking German aircraft will always be the Bf 110

>>33426681
>Short Sunderland not Sutherland

I am illiterate.

>>33426681
>not one word about the short shetland

>>33426664
There was a unit website but I can't find it at the moment.

They caused the jap navy a lot of grief. Sank a few ships, shot down bombers and other patrol aircraft.

Found this one.

http://www.daveswarbirds.com/blackcat/

>>33426689
Also the best named aircraft of all time. This was plane was my baby in War Thunder years ago before it went full retard

>>33426681
Both are great aircraft, but the Sunderland will always have a special place in my heart.

>>33426689
Nope. Flying boats are the cats ass!

That just looks like a plane.

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>>33426755
Except Germany's flying boat program fell victim to Hitler's wunderwaffe fetish

>>33426720
Neat, thanks

>>33426749
It's something about the Mariner's tail that does it for me. Sunderland's comfy, tho. A genuine porcelain toilet.

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>>33426720
A few? Try hundreds!

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>>33426495
God damn Shylocks and Mudpeople ruin everything

I always thought the pan am clippers were cool

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>>33427065
Pic

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>>33425928
Short Sunderland was better desu

>>33427064
That image causes me physical pain.

>>33427064
How hard would it be to fix her and fly her to Alaska to start an in-flight meat smoking company

>>33425998
>>33426631
>>33426689
>skinny bitches
catalina is T H I C C

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>>33427269
Good starting off point, but hear me out on this one. We go to the Saudi desert, snag the Catty, restore her, outfit her with fishing gear and coolers. We catch King Salmon in Alaska, then we chill it and fly it to high end restaurants and grocers all over the lower 48 next day. Whole Foods already does it and makes a handy profit.

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No one has yet posted the Tradewind. Sad!

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Or the Seamaster.

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>>33427389
Pic related is almost all that's left of them.

>>33426284
Think there'd be any money in bounty hunting for local navies doing pirate/drug smuggler sweeps? Even if you only offer intelligence and the like?

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I ever get my hands on a boat and im island hopping for the rest of my days.

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>>33427434
Life is suffering. Just like when I think about how I'll never see an F-14 fly ever again.

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How many of you /k/ids remember this show?

>>33426048
HNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNG

>>33426720
Black Cats carried two torpedoes for night shopping attacks.

>>33427544
>night shopping attacks.

The Walmart fleet never stood a chance.

>>33426664
>>33426720
>forgetting the cod:waw blackcats mission
https://youtu.be/LYBPmyHieEk

>>33427486
You're a man who lives in a flying boat, there is no end to ways you could make yourself useful.

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>>33427506
That museum has all the pieces left of the program. It consists of:
>Two vertical stabilizers in that pic
>A ~10ft section of the tail that the vertical stabilizer attached to
>Two tip tanks that some guy had found in a scrapyard and turned into a pontoon boat before realizing what he was sailing around the Chesapeake on

>>33427529
Bruce Boxleitner and some qt; lasted a year?

>>33427591
Would that happen to be at Pax River?

>>33425998
>PBY
>Ugly
>Bf-109E
>good looking

At least pick one of the good looking variants.

>>33427556
dammit

>>33427623
Glenn L. Martin Museum. Not sure exactly where it is, but it's north of Baltimore and it used to have that radar blimp floating nearby until it got loose a couple years back.

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>>33427614
Yup. I think it's biggest claim to fame was the other show it inspired.

>>33427657
Huh. I'll definitely have to look into going there sometime. I'm a NoVafag myself, so its not too far.

>>33427587
I'm more wondering if that alone would be enough to pay for upkeep on a 70+ year old relic.

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>>33427688
It's a fairly small museum (only about 10 or so aircraft), but I tend to like smaller museums because the people working there usually have a lot to add.

Pic related is most of the flightline.

>>33427758
Nice. Totally a worthwhile day trip, even for less than a dozen aircraft.

>>33427735
Fuck no. One of these trust fund baby tripfags could probably afford it, but You are going to be operating at a net loss no matter how you employed yourself with one of these.

>>33426048

We Talespin nao

>>33427587
I've had similar dreams about a submersible yacht.
>doesn't need weapons
>doesn't need to be cramped
>WWII style flat top for cruising most of the time
>mostly just submersible for avoiding storms and third world navies with shit all ASW
>spend my days running illicit cargo between tropical ports and Puget Sound

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>>33426778
>tfw the only one was destroyed by P-51s.

>>33426495
Should have packed a revolver and a whip, sounds like he missed an opportunity.

>>33425928
seaplanes were the most aesthetic inventions ever devised by human.

its a boat that can fly, its got bunks, its got props, and its got guns (sometimes)

what else do you need.

>>33429581
A satellite uplink so you can shitpost at anchor.

>>33429598
>ywn have a PBY Catalina
>ywn posses enough money to maintain and fly it all you want
>ywn deliver supplies and fly the occasional tourist around just for fun of it.
>ywn live an exciting life meeting tons of new people in your vintage flying boat that helped defeat evil in the Pacific.

Gonna kill myself I think

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>>33428620

u r like baby

>>33429749
Don't like the PBY Catalina, it's a good one but there are betters. But yes, same dream as you.


Flying boats are just great, no airstrip. Don't like your current locale? Fly to another, no strings attached.

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>>33429776

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>>33425928
Flying boats sure are comfy.

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>>33425928
Your planefoo sucks

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If you have a Warthunder account, you need to be disqualified from this thread.

That is all

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DONT YOU DARE TALK SHIT ABOUT FLYING BOATS AROUND ME OR MY WIFES SON EVER AGAIN

>>33429987
fuck outta here with your H8K, nobody likes you

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you will never be as happy as this dude

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How would you feel if you were the pilot?

>>33430092
>not flying paper airplane with turrets that never existed while instagibbing corsairs with your death lasers and whining on the forums about how he lightly damaged your wing because he didn't die in one shoot and you had to click in his general direction twice

what are you doing with your life

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>>33425998
>I cannot be persuaded otherwise.
That's because you have shit taste m8

>>33430162
Collecting 1/32 models and playing with them nigga.
what the fuck are you doing your life?

>>33427529
I loved it. Just the concept alone was brilliant.

>>33430178
everyone knows 1/48 is the superior scale

>>33426681
Mate, she has a BUNK BED. A comfy BUNK BED in a flying boaty.

>>33427506
Iran still uses F-14s

>>33430153
Probably piss dribbling down my leg, if I'm honest with myself.

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>>33425998
>cockpit windows look like a fucking greenhouse
Nope.

>>33426284
Fuck you, anon - cant handle these feels anymore ...

>i liked the first Expendables-movie because of that plane-stuff

>>33426585
these damn things had machine shops in them. they could carry spare parts inside them selfs

>>33427487
I'm working on this anon

>>33426661
>Meinen Jimmies ist rustled!

>t. hans

>>33427687
I remember watching this. Only watched it for those flying boat adventure feels

>>33427529

Cutters Goose

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>>33431748
How did you feel about air piracy?

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Filename.

>>33430153
Dizzy

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>>33425998
o rly?

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>>33427572
>not remembering the mission in MoH: Pacific Assault where you rescue one instead

>>33431748
And the art was amazing. Everything looked so damned cool.

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>>33426284
Fuck a PBY, give me a Short Sunderland. You could turn one of those in to a literal floating, flying mansion. Sexiest god damn boat that ever flew.

>>33431210
I don't believe that. Carrying a lathe and mill around with the appropriate power supplies would be a shit ton of dead weight.

>>33432375
>a
you kinda have to if you plan on living in a flying boat, those engines require a shitload of maintanance with all that sea water

>>33429581
They're essentially flying treehouses with guns if you stop and think about it.

>>33432770
I cannot find any reference about a full blown machine shop present on the aircraft.

>>33426284
Fun fact: the PBY can't land in open water. Its rivets would be shaken right out by the waves.

>>33426048
Fuck he's cute

>>33430153
Trim it out

>>33433489
Nigga what. It's entire point of existing is to land on water, I'm sure consolidated wouldn't have made a float plane that couldn't float.

>>33431838
Now is not the time for fear

>>33433539
Here, take a look at this:
http://www.flyingmag.com/pilot-reports/pistons/consolidateds-pby-5-catalina
>The airplane was not really designed to land and take off in open water, but Catalina crews routinely put their lives on the line to save others.
You technically could land in the ocean, but if you spend too much time there, you won't be taking off.

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>>33433575
Catalina rescuing stranded sailor after being a sea for 4 days. Dated roughly 3 weeks after Pearl Harbor

>>33430092
I was thinking of it because I'm bored. Have they gone further down the rabbit hole?

>>33433697
best tier is tier 3, I've been having the most fun in my dauntless and corsair, getting money for b-17s

>>33426585
not amphibian...

>>33433697
There's a lot of prototype shit for wallet warriors, and some prototypes in the later stages, but not unbearable amounts. It's free, so it's not like your losing anything

>>33434042
>>33433965
Have they messed with earning lions? I remember I was swimming in them and now I"m struggling to break even last time I played.

>>33427529
I loved the snarky bits...

>>33434054
Yea so am I, I don't know what's going on with that. Maybe repair costs or some shit?

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>>33433489
So all those times they landed and pulled downed pilots out of the water in the Pacific was impossible?

>>33434108
>>33434054
Turn off auto-repair.

>>33425928

that plane looks fucking stupid it can't even land hahahaha

>>33434212
But can I still fly planes without them being auto repaired?

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>>33426495
>http://www.messynessychic.com/2014/04/24/all-aboard-the-flying-yacht-circa-1950/

>>33434348
Holy mackerel! The hair on her legs. I had no idea that leg shaving was a recent thing.

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>>33426634
you have to go back.

>>33427269
don't you smoke enough beef already?

>>33433623
That was a nice landing if I do say so myself. And I am.

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>>33434348
i have a fucking boner right now

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There is a flying PBY based out of an aircraft museum here in the UK (Duxford). When I saw it last there was a notice up looking for volunteer unqualified crew members for trips. Would have done it if I lived close enough
>ywn be a cabin boy on a catalina

>>33433633
Depends on how big the waves are

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Quite capable of landing on a runway.
Takeoff is another matter.

>>33428620
That's a big plane

>>33434289
You just repair planes manually when you're out of planes to fly.

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>can be launched from a catapult on a ship
>has a comfy name
>is comfy to live in
>has that nice 1920-30s look
>britshit
>somehow the perfect size
>can do the same tasks as the pby and more
how can any other float-fu even compare?

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>>33435728
it's made of wood and fabric

>>33434414
Probably blonde and real hard to see under normal conditions, so she wouldn't really have to keep up with it. For some reason, that doesn't bother me as much as dark leg hair.

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don't mind me, best plane coming through

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>>33436625
Try parking that in the briny old chap.

Why are there no military amphibious planes. Seems like they'd be useful and able to carry more than a helicopter

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>>33438843
>implying

>>33429995
they're done, anon. canaderp fucked them for good this time.

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gramps' Martin PBM

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>>33438843
Soviets would love to sell you some. Get writing ;)

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Unloved.

>>33433463
For what it's worth, the Wikipedia page seems to reference it.

>As with the S.23, the Sunderland's fuselage contained two decks with six bunks on the lower one, a galley with a twin kerosene pressure stove, a yacht-style porcelain flush toilet, an anchoring winch, and a small machine shop for inflight repairs. The crew was originally intended to be seven but increased in later versions to 11 crew members or more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Sunderland

>>33434348
Sandniggers ruin everything.

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>>33439724
The baby Beriev, the Be.103 is FAA approved for sales to civilian customers in the US so I'm sure you could get a few people to go in together for one of the big ones.

>>33427572
US Navy Blackcats: we come, we fuck shit up, we leave

>>33427269

/k/s own Flight of the Phoenix, a bunch of internet users with austism rescue a wrecked sea plane from the desert, narrowly escaping a group of advancing ISIS technicals.


... I'd watch it.

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For me, it's the Do 24

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>>33442480
>ywn patrol the Dutch East Indies for japs in this sexy German flying boat

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>>33442488

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>>33442492

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>>33442505
Still flying

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>>33442508
In style

>>33442492
It looks good in real life as well. Went to Soesterberg museum. There is one there in the main hall.

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Replace the bomb bays with your house, all 75000 pounds of it.

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>>33442518
>Soesterberg
I remember going there all the time with my dad to watch the f-15's take off, good times.

I also remember reading that the McDonald's in the American village next to the base was the first in the country to have a drive-through.

>>33427434
>Error 404: Plane Not Found

>>33427096
God i was born in the wrong era.

I'd give anything to operate in a Sunderland for my country. Seaplanes are so based.

>>33439789
That's a big plane

>>33429776
>Spruce Goose
>Flying
What is Ground Effect

>>33443793
uuuu

>>33427529
Got the DVD set, the banter holds up.

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Thread theme
https://youtu.be/zexRToMLGOY

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>>33442666
>No more Fokker G-1

felt pretty bad visiting the new museum man

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>>33427369
Fascinating plane. I always imagined a plane as big as a Hercules that could land at sea. This is almost it.

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>>33432105
It was called the short empire dude

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It will never be topped

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>>33446859
>dawg I heard you like seaplanes
>so we stuck a floatplane on ur flying boat dawg

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>>33443793
For you

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>>33446909
It would never work

>>33427529
holy shit anon, I had completely forgot this existed

ancient memories watching reruns with my dad when i was like 5-6

gonna have to revisit this

>>33427096
Comfy!

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giant flying boats are my fetish

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>>33426019
>>33426284

turns out there was a civilian PBY version.

So if you actually had enough money to commission someone to build a hundred year old design you could actually own a Catalina boatplane.

>>33427529
never knew of this before

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AESTHETIC

>>33425998
That's not an FW-190 A-series

>>33431838
Was getting caught part of their plan?

>>33426858
Read the thousand mile war, they used them as frigging dive bombers in the early days of the aleutians with considerable success

>>33427064
My dad flew Catalinas as a water bomber pilot, I hate to see them die.

>>33434520
Bridges of Toka-Ri

>>33449217
D series is better. Anton is fat and underperforms.

>>33449401
there's a guy in texas that collects WWII aircraft, and he has two of them in mint condition. he was an actor or something, i forget his story.

>>33430326
then back up the leg, then back down

>>33434442
I'm pretty sure they were referring to the black cat night bomber of ww2.
The ones painted all black so as not to show up in the dark!

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>>33433489
It did in fact land in open water. Many times.
You see when a pilot crashes in the ocean it's considered rude to ask him to swim to an island to be rescued.

Pic. Pbm mariner.

>>33448892
How much would that cost?

>>33426048
>"This is the enemy"
cracks me up

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>>33434997
for you

>>33446941
but why?

>>33452091

To get airmail to the shore couple hours earlier on smaller and faster plane.

>>33427687
>hey you know that show about a seaplane that didn't do well?
>yeah?
>what if we made it a cartoon and used characters from The Jungle Book
>brilliant!

>>33451103
See >>33433633

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>>33425928
gooniebird sexiest bird of the second ww2

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>>33453989
I like the lines but she needs floats to be beautiful.

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>>33453916
Well it's not actually a boat is it.

Although the Indianapolis rescue pby landed in rough seas and took on survivors. It managed to stay afloat seriously overloaded till a rescue ship arrived.

Look it up. It's a cool story. It deserves a movie.

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>>33453998
If you're gonna play that game...

>>33446859
>You will never fly airmail in an empire flying boat for the glorious commonwealth.
Just fucking end it for me

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Have any of you read 'Unbroken'? It's a fascinating read, even though it has obvious propaganda throughout. It goes into depth on the problems with the B-24, the insane maintenance issues and under-qualified crew, what emergency rafts were equipped with at different stages in the war, search & rescue problems and tactics, and crash survival rates in various bombers (surprise, the B-24/25 was one of the worst). There's plenty of torrents circling around if you don't wanna buy it, but I really do recommend it to any /k/ommando. Last forth of the book is not specifically interesting but the middle bits are chock full of information.

tl;dr: The B-24/25 were flying deathtraps in the pacific theater.

>>33433489
>>33433633
Anon, I don't believe it's that the plane would be torn apart by ocean waves, although I've seen some ocean waves. It's more that it's not got a lot of freeboard, and will be swamped in them.

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>>33453989
>the second ww2

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>>33425928
>ctrl-f
>no ekranoplan

Not saying it's better than the PBY, but still massive flying house with anti-ship missiles and 23mm turrets and enough house for a for a whole company

>>33455426
and it's just rotting somewhere at the caspian sea shore. Someone should steal one and open up a flying island hopping hotel in southeast asia in it.

>chilling on wonderful beaches
>afternoon trip to hunt down some abu sayyaf cunts with glorious 23mm cannons out of my 10 engine ground effect vehicle
>no one dares to interfere because i got 6 moskit launch tubes strapped to the top

>>33455630

>indonesian pirates
>chillin in the sea, nice weather too
>starts attacking another cargo boat, second of the day
>only had to hurt a sailor's face to get the loot, no need for killing
>more tv and high-tech shit that you can carry, feels good nigga
>take the take to fill your boat's tank with free gas
>about to leave and get back home to some sweet dusky girls
>brraaaaaap
>weird noise
>it gets louder
>BRRAAAAAAAAAP
>massive wave of water and smoke coming toward us
>giant plane floating on the water gets past us and the cargo
>can faintly hear the USSR hymn behind the sound of the engines
>it gets farther and makes a turn, moving toward us again
>massive jets of smoke on the top
>oh shit, 6 missiles starts flying in every direction
>2 hits the cargo, soaking us and blowing the sailors
>another one blow us all to hell and back
>last thing I see is a buck naked pilot laughing at the helm of the weird plane

>>33425928
Most versatile plane of WW2.

No seriously, a PBY could do high altitude bombing, close air support with MGs, long range anti-sub patrol, search and rescue, and even some anti-ship work with torpedoes.

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>tfw u will never fly mein fuhrer to argentina ;_;

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>>33455714
>>33425928
>mfw remembering this game and making torpedo run with the PBY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroes_of_the_Pacific

>>33427064
>http://www.messynessychic.com/2014/04/24/all-aboard-the-flying-yacht-circa-1950/
fucking muslims

nuke them already

why no love for HU-16 in this thread?

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>>33426495
I've seen this before.

I didn't need these feels then, and I don't need them now

>>33454056
Yeah, that's actually the story that was told to me while I was being told about the whole thing with the rivets. It's the same story the guy in Jaws told, about how "and then the sharks came."

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>>33455426
>>33455630
>>33455699
And here you go. The e/k/ranoplan.

>>33458844
This is the type of shit I come to /k/ for. When I read the original earlier today, that magnificent basterd had me pissing my pants at my desk. Godspeed, /k/unts.

>>33434348
>them legs
>that hair

*nervous sweating*

>>33450368
kek

>>33452091
>>33453347

No, not that way. The large plane takes the little one to operating height so it doesn't expend fuel on take off and climbing, like a two stage rocket.