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I thought it a funny coincidence last night, that while watching an episode of "Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea": Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea; The Sky Is Falling (TV Episode 1964 - IMDb), that a flight of EE Lightnings were seen attacking the UFO along with B-52 bombers.
The only problem with that, is that the UFO was underwater, off the coast of Southern California!
To be fair, you could line them up on a runway and both open the throttles, the EE Lightning would get to the other end first !
The P-38 would then over take it and take off as the EE Lightning would have ran out of fuel !
I may be wrong, but didn't you guys name the P-38 also?
it could not have taken of where a real Lightning would have take off..... Ever...
Was the EE Lightning cleared for carrier operations?
So all we needed was mile long carrier deck?
I may be wrong, but didn't you guys name the P-38 also?
*ahem*I think so....and the Catalina....and the Mustang....and....
*ahem*
The PBY got it's name from a nearby island (Santa Catalina), as Consolidated was based out of San Diego.
The PB2Y got it's name also from a nearby island (Coronado) that ironically, was connected to the mainland by a huge Navy construction project during WWII.
Just tellin' ya' what I heard, since I grew up in Southern California (about 30 miles away from Catalina Island, as the crow flies) and we had alot of wartime history in the southland.On 20 December 1939, the Navy ordered 200 Consolidated PBY-5s, the largest single Navy air-craft since World War l. Contracts with Britain, France, Australia and Canada were made for 174 similar 28-5M's in the same period. The French orders were absorbed by Britain, and a new assembly line was begun in San Diego. The PBY-5 was accepted in September 1940 with 1,200 hp (takeoff) R-1830-82 engines, the first to use 100 octane fuel. Armament included two .50 caliber guns in the waist blisters with 840 rounds and a .30 caliber gun in the bow and in the tunnel with 1,500 rounds. Weight on #2289 was 15,384 Ib empty, and 28,957 Ib with 1,570 gallons of fuel. The second PBY-5 (#2290) was delivered to the Coast Guard in October 1940, registered V189, and stationed in San Francisco. November deliveries were three PBY-5 and the first three Model 28-5ME boats for Britain, registered as AM 264, W 8405 and AM 265. The British called the PBY "Catalina," a name adopted by the U.S. Navy in October 1941.
The PBY Catalina (the early history)