Floatplane returns
- Thread starter Dimlee
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Nice one!
This thing is going to be as big a flop as the C-47 on floats and for the same reasons (hard to service, hard to load/unload), unless all the USAF plans on putting in it is "self loading cargo".
If they insisted on using the C-130 platform they should have gone back and looked at the Lockheed proposal from 1960s/70s that used a bolt on hull/hydroski arrangement and was flight tested with a large scale RC model. They even put out a 60+ page prospectus on it (I have a copy). They used fiberglass back then, now with modern carbonfibers it would be lighter and stronger.
If they insisted on using the C-130 platform they should have gone back and looked at the Lockheed proposal from 1960s/70s that used a bolt on hull/hydroski arrangement and was flight tested with a large scale RC model. They even put out a 60+ page prospectus on it (I have a copy). They used fiberglass back then, now with modern carbonfibers it would be lighter and stronger.
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Might be good for flying in Marines to the South China Sea.....
GrauGeist
Generalfeldmarschall zur Luftschiff Abteilung
The USN's P6M was pretty cool.
Not sure why the USAF thinks it needs a seaplane, though.
Not sure why the USAF thinks it needs a seaplane, though.
SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
If the Navy has stuff that flies, the Air Force wants stuff that floats.
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It reminds the immortal quote of Admiral E. J. King:
"I don't know what the hell this 'logistics' is that Marshall is always talking about, but I want some of it."
