Flying boat thread

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>>34044787
JMSDF still operates new production flying boats.

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>>34044787
Amateurs

>>34044787
>Restoring a sunterland
>Not restoring a Catalina and having a comfy-ass gunboat/townhouse dripping with 40's aesthetic

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>>34044817
>when your service ceiling is 30 feet

>>34044829
>restore Catalina
>not even enough room to swing your dick around
>restore Sunderland
>still a comfy ass gunboat/townhouse dripping with 40s aesthetic but has actual living space

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>tfw no BV-238.

>>34044832
and rough seas either scrub the mission or force you to stay in the water as a very slow and inefficient boat.

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Room enough to swing a (cat) flying boat.

>>34044832
>when you are retarded enough to not know the advantages

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Beriev will quite willingly take(rip your arm off for) your money. :)

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>>34044885
>not sub hunting gunships
fuck outta here

>>34044845
http://www.messynessychic.com/2014/04/24/all-aboard-the-flying-yacht-circa-1950/
Link very related

>>34044911
Now imagine this, but more.

>>34044911
Do the model babes come standard?

>>34044943
If you build it, they will come

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>>34044903
Not nuke 'em all enough for you?

>>34045008
nice

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>>34045008

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A vtol boat thingy. Because everyone needs one of those.

>>34045238
when you have more funding than fucks to give

>>34044852
There are some things that should not exist because they should not work.
This is one of them.

>flying boat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPUhfZjSEf0

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Psh. Get on my level.

>>34045521
how to paper airplane 101

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>>34044885
that thing would be the ultimate airplane for alaska.

>>34044874

da da
advantages include
>not being able to turn at 300mph so you crash into Tovarishch fishing for mighty Caspian Carp in his tiny boat
>everyone breaks their spines from the buffeting effect on way to great liberation

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>>34047087
https://thaimilitaryandasianregion.wordpress.com/2015/11/03/russian-beriev-be-200-amphibious-aircraft/

>>34045521
That's a big plane.

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>>34047381
Fuck you I just realised what you did there.

>>34047121
I had a model of one of those when I was a kid.

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I'M HELPING!!!

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Get in muh belly!

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>>34047897
Gotta break fast.

>ywn fly around in your H8K Emily landing to hang out with your friends on a reproduction Akitsushima class sea-boat tender

>>34045008
>The first prototype, BuNo 138821, c/n XP-1, disintegrated in flight at 5,000 feet (1,500 m) due to the horizontal tail going to full up due to a control malfunction, subjecting the airframe to 9 g stress as it began an outside loop

fuuuuu....

>>34048017
Sea-boat tender sounds lewd desu
And after seeing the boteslut akitsushima it gets lewder

>>34047087
The passenger version has a range of 1156 miles so you'd have to stop for gas a couple of times to fly all the way across the state.

>>34047117
>da da
It is nice when an anon explain that he is a literal retard in the start of the post.

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>>34045238
>>34045264
Don't forget this guy.

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>>34044787
>no surviving examples

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Black Cats are best boats. http://www.daveswarbirds.com/blackcat/contents.htm. Black painted PBY Catalinas in WW2, Pacific Theater. Weapons varied wildly. Common loadout was a fixed forward quad mount .50, two 500 lb bombs, a torpedo (or 2 250 lb bombs), waist .50s, and a pile of hand dropped frag bombs and empty beer bottles laid out on the bunks.

Ever blow across a beer bottle mouth? Know that whistling sound? Imagine dropping that from 5000 ft. They'd knock out enemy air defense, cut the airbase off from resupply, then circle it all night. Every 5 or 10 minutes, they'd throw out a beer bottle. Every few beer bottles, at random, they'd drop a handheld grenade sized frag bomb. Basically, the Japanese we're not allowed to sleep. Then, every few hours, they'd drop either a 250 or 500 lb bomb after a beer bottle. Then, come dawn, fly away.

>>34045238
What in the ever loving fuck is THAT?! lol

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>>34048985

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>>34049000
>LAHODNEY'S GUNS
>Back at Palm Island, Australia, Patrol Bombing Squadron 52 under Lieutenant Commander H. A. "Hal" Sommer had been readying itself to move north and relieve VPB-11. Here, one of the war's more colorful Black Cat pilots, Lieutenant W. J. "Bill" Lahodney, was deeply involved in a project which he hoped would substantially increase the striking power of the Catalina. Something was needed, he felt, to enable a Cat to press home an attack even after all bombs or torpedoes had been expended. Further, he knew that they would encounter many targets, too small to waste bombs on, which would succumb to an attack by concentrated gunfire.

>In his quest for increased firepower, Lahodney made several flights in the Army's B-25 bombers and was impressed with their gunfire capabilities. These planes had 75-millimeter cannon in the nose but also mounted several fixed-quad .50-caliber machine guns which were of particular interest to the Cat pilot. He decided to with the same .50-caliber installation in the nose of his PBY. It was a somewhat radical concept and, as might be expected, there were many raised eyebrows. The PBY after all was a patrol plane, not a fighter, and it was the opinion of some that the fifties would tear the nose off of the airplane. The old Cat was simply not built to take that kind of abuse, they said. Others thought the installation would have an adverse affect on aircraft weight and balance. Few were optimistic that the idea would work.

>>34048943
>What in the ever loving fuck is THAT?!

A modified Grumman Goose.

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>>34049018
>Lahodney was not to be deterred. Removing the bombsight (which had not proven very effective for the specialized work of the Black Cats) and the small bow plate window, he bolted the guns, mounted two over two, to the keel of the big boat. The top set of two were mounted forward of the lower set, so the muzzles of all four were aft of the angled bow plate. An aluminum panel with four blast tubes extending forward for seven inches replaced the window, and was all that was visible of the lethal addition from an exterior view. An electric trigger on the pilot's yoke, and a selector switch which permitted the pilot to fire the guns individually or together, completed the installation. Bill Lahodney was confident that the Cat would not only withstand the vibration of the fifties, but that the twin thirties normally mounted just above that spot could be retained along with the gunner's position.

>With a minimum volunteer crew, consisting of himself, a flight engineer, and a bow gunner, Lahodney took off from the Palm Island seadrome to try out his idea. Dropping a floating smoke light in the water for a target, he executed a wing-over and put the Cat into a steep dive. Eyeballing the burning smoke light he pressed the trigger and the fifties responded with a burst that churned the water and extinguished the smoke. That was the kind of firepower he was looking for, he thought with satisfaction. During the run he had also noted that the extra weight in the nose had no perceptible effect on the aircraft's performance. The test was repeated with the same result and upon returning to base, a careful inspection revealed that the old Cat had shouldered her new burden without complaint. The experiment was a complete success, so much so that quad fifties were installed in at least three planes in every succeding squadron.

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>>34049043
Other tests also bore out Lahodney's views. They demonstrated that a gunner could straddle the quad mount and operate the thirties with almost as much mobility as before. A burlap pad was placed on the hot .50-caliber barrels to prevent the gunner from being burned.

One problem with the installation was that because of its positioning it was difficult to keep salt water from getting into the muzzles. Rubber plugs were made to fit in the blast tubes but they leaked badly. Then someone got the idea that the standard rubber devices used for the prevention of venereal disease would be just the thing to make the blast tubes watertight. And they were.

In preparing for the coming deployment, Lahodney flew over to Townsville on the Australian mainland on a supply run. He picked up two additional quad mounts from the Army Supply Depot and an unusually large quantity of condoms to protect the gun muzzles. The swells were heavy that day and during the take-off run one bounced the Cat into the air prematurely. The starboard wing dropped about forty degrees and full power on the starboard engine would not bring it level. It hit the water and broke off and the rest of the airplane came down hard. As it began to sink, Lahodney again applied full throttle and ran the broken Cat up on the rocks of the Townsville breakwater. Incredibly, no one was hurt.

With a heavy on-shore wind, the condoms were scattered about and it looked like there were many thousands as they floated ashore. Lahodney recalls that since there were no women on Palm Island there was much humorous speculation concerning the intended use of all those contraceptives.

(The above section of text was taken from "Black Cat Raiders of WWII" by Richard C. Knott, 1982)(now out of print)

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>>34049053
Lahodney's cat

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>>34049117
I strongly recommend reading the link I posted above (>>34048943); great history, great info, cool stories.

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>>34044787
Does anyone remember that old show about the guy with a flying boat in the Pacific before the war? Spying on the Japs, going on adventures.

Fucking loved that show when I was a kid.

>>34050744
Tales of the Golden Monkey?

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Hughes H-4

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>>34044817

>>34047070
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>>34047092
Why aren't all jet liners built this way?

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>iwn live out my fantasy Tale Spin life of living aboard a flying bote and carrying mail and sundries around the Caribbean

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>>34047897
Would this thing be competitive today with modernized avionics?

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>>34051094
What a sad world in which we live.

>>34044911
The maintenance on that thing must be fucking insane

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>>34050920
>Tales of the Golden Monkey?
Yes thank you! Could not remember the bloody name. Used to be on when I got home from school.

I wonder if it still holds up.

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>>34044787
If you're ever in Oakland, you can go see the Short Solent at the Air Museum there. The Solent was basically the civilian version of the Sunderland, used by BOAC. You can even book a dinner on it, which they'll serve you in the Solent's dining salon.

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>tfw no nine wings, eight engines flying boat

>>34051754

>Italian

Oh those crazy spaghetti men

>>34051763
Italian aerospace industry was pretty legit before WWII

>>34051151
I always felt like those sky pirates really needed to refine their tactics if they wanted to recover cargo in saleable condition.

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>>34051782
They did pretty well.

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>>34051754

>>34051792
Well played, sky pirates. Well played.

Still not sure how well those parasite fighters are gonna be able to taxi on pontoons w/o wheels, tho. That even bugged me when I was 6.

>>34047381
Kek. Ur a rite clever cunt, m8.

Flying boats are really easy to bounce in my 109. I play Germany so I can report nazi shits on my team.

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Pic related is apparently going to be up for sale soon.

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>>34051754
>crashed on second flight
>"So the fruit of years of work, an aircraft that was to form the basis of future aviation, all is lost in a moment. But one must not be shocked if one wants to progress. The path of progress is strewn with suffering."

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>>34044817

Out of the way planelets

>>34057148
That wood gives me wood.

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China still building new cool stuff long after the round-eyes lost heart and went to maintenance mode. Because why wouldn't an oversized cargo waterfowl?

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I keep thinking about building my own amphibious plane.

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>nobody's posted the slimmest and most elegant of the flying boats

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>>34059739
>nobody's posted her extra-thicc big sister either

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>>34059766
Too Thick

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>>34048511

But everyone has....

https://www.google.com/maps?ie=UTF8&ll=55.833497,38.180661&spn=0.001678,0.005563&t=h&z=18

>>34050744

Cutters Goose?

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>>34059739
>most elegant of the flying boats

not even close

>>34051754
Its.... beautiful

>>34062140
I want to wax and polish that boat.

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>>34049117
Neat.

>>34051151
Fucking furries.

>>34056320
>But one must not be shocked if one wants to progress. The path of progress is strewn with suffering.
Isn't this the same rationality behind the Zumwalt and LCS?

>>34052158
I you look closely at 0:33/0:34, their pontoons seem to have (retractable?) wheels on them.

>>34051278
>Oakland
no thanks
surprised it hasn't been burned to a hulk yet

>>34049053
Kek, never heard that story, and I've lived in Townsville since 1984. Double surprised, as my old man restored a Supermarket Walrus at Pt Cook, so I often hear similar stories.

>>34048228
that could be fixed with better engines or a single large engine S duct design.

>>34051100
yes. The biggest "problem" was that carriers are a mobile base, and the dart couldn't land on a rough body of water. Then you start adding in things like wheels, brakes, etc, and it starts to get heavier. If it was JUST a flying boat/ fighter jet, it would be fine.

>>34044808
muh dick

>>34044787
it looks like a small B-24 with sponsons

>>34044885
If only they took advantage of the coanda effect. That, and if the fuselage were more boaty for aesthetics.