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There were a couple landplane C-125s in Vietnam civil/VN military use in '63 my first tour there.
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There were a couple landplane C-125s in Vietnam civil/VN military use in '63 my first tour there.
Very capable aircraft, only bettered by DH Caribou/Buffalo cargo haulers later. Better than C-47s/C-123s in small fields.
I emphasize, NOT in USAF service. These were in camo, and were either VNAF, civil, or even Air America/spook. Guys tried to call them Ford tri-motors, but I knew better. Tân Sơn Nhất and Biên Hòa in those early '60s were a hodge podge of WWII era military craft and modern jet airline service (there was a fiction then of 'Limited Wars' that kept the mostly Third World combatants in Latin America, Asia and Africa from using advanced weapons like turbine aircraft!! ... so armed P-51s, T-28s, T-6s, A-26s all had their day.)I don't believe the C-125 was ever sent to Vietnam. Perhaps you mistake it for something else? The C-123 perhaps?
Also that picture of the "Sea Raider" os photo shop. Very cool though.
Style and panache?I have a hard time figuring the value of the C-125C Bellanca style strut.
Just what did you expect from an outfit that gave us the Walrus ... AND the Spitfire?
Maybe a menage a trois. Those tail fins looks a little Beriev.Just what did you expect from an outfit that gave us the Walrus ... AND the Spitfire?
Well, note the fins are decidedly elliptical ...Maybe a menage a trois. Those tail fins looks a little Beriev.
Are you referring to carrier operations?I think you meant the Walrus and its successor the Sea Otter.
Only 3 prototypes if the Type 381 Seagull were ordered and only two flew. PA143 had a third central fin added during its trials while the second prototype had it from its first flight. As for carrier operations, these were limited to deck landing trials in Oct 1949. 54 deck landings on Illustrious.
WW2 RN carriers with the exception of the Implacables, had the hangar height to carry the Walrus. Rarely carried. When they were they were intended for Air Sea Rescue. Victorious carried a pair as her ship's flight between Jan & April 1945 while with the BPF. They were nicknamed "Darby" & "Joan". They operated from Illustrious for Operation Meridian and one was dispatched for that purpose but IIRC didn't find the downed pilot concerned.Are you referring to carrier operations?
You mention late '40s Seagull trials, both on Illustrious and Ark Royal.
At least once for Walrus.
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I just find it remarkable that a flying boat would be considered for carrier deck ops.
So .... it's a Spitrus? A Walfire?......... ;-PJust what did you expect from an outfit that gave us the Walrus ... AND the Spitfire?