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[special ed]

U.S. Navy Martin PBM-1 Mariner of Patrol Squadron 55 (VP-55) is hoisted on board the seaplane tender USS Albemarle (AV-5), in 1941 WIKI
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What I would like to know, is how did they put the beaching gear on?

 

[Airframes]

Yes.

 

[MiTasol]

I would expect that it was installed exactly the same way as before the aircraft is towed up a ramp on a beach or land base.

I also think it would not have been easy in that sea even though I expect there is a winch in or attached the fuselage or wing each side to hoist the top end up and into position.

This diagram is from the Short Seaford but I would expect the process on the Mariner to be similar.

 

[SaparotRob]

What I would like to know, is how did they put the beaching gear on?

In those little cabanas by the beach.

 

[Viking1066]

USS Cowpens (CVL) July 1943 WIKI

 

[Viking1066]

USS Langley (CV-1) aerial, bow on, plane on deck. This photo is dated 1923 NAVS

 

[CATCH 22]

What I would like to know, is how did they put the beaching gear on?

The beaching gear is attached, because the plane was on board of the tender. In open sea the gear was normally attached when the a/c is hoisted over the tender. See below how 7+1 guys are doing the job on the one side (and 6 are watching):

When the a/c is in shallow waters (the name of the gear is "beaching gear"!), the mats walk/swim and attach resp. remove the gear in the water:

Even in cold, freezing, icy waters they do it with their rubberized suits:
1. 1 guy removing the left main gear. Guys in the boat waiting to collect it. 2 guys in suits preparing to remove the rest of the beaching gear:

2. Same a/c - rear beaching gear removed and floating in the water. 1 guy in suit visible in the water, another one is working on the right gear (removing it). :

Here is how they hoist (up) a PBM-3S. Tender ship is USS Albemarle:
1. Preparing the a/c in the water:

2. Hoisting it up (no gear attached!):

3. And the following procedures with a PBM-5:

Same a/c in b&w - note the beaching gear waiting to be attached (bottom of the photo and on the right):

Cheers!

 

[Viking1066]

41-7341-P 39F Airacobra 54FG57FS at Ladd Field Alaska 7th Aug 1942 ASBIZ

 

[Viking1066]

USAAF 42-18836 Bell P 39-Airacobra 118TRS ASBIZ

 

[Viking1066]

A maintenance zone where P-51 Mustangs, P-47 Thunderbolts from the 35th Fighter Group are being serviced WWAI

 

[Viking1066]

An F4B-4 from Fighting Six aboard the USS Saratoga during 1936 VBER

 

[Viking1066]

B-24D Liberators testing the insignia combinations REDD

 

[Lancero99]

Meiji Air Base, early summer of 1945, a Nakajima C6N Saiun or Myrt reconnaissance plane of the 210. Kokutai, 3rd Squadron, taxiing on the runway having returned from a mission.

 

[Lancero99]

Aichi E16A Zuiun 'Paul' floatplane of the 634th Kōkūtai taking off from Iwakuni

 

[Lancero99]

A Nakajima C6N Saiun or Myrt reconnaissance plane of the 762nd Kokutai takes off from Katori airbase for a mission

 

[Viking1066]

Rear gunner and yagi antenna for the radar set. The 7.7 mm Type 92 machine gun was standard, although there were some examples of heavier guns being used in the field INHG

 

[Viking1066]

Nakajima B5N2 Kate torpedo bombers taking off from the light carrier Zuihō during Operation Ke, February 1943 REDD

 

[Viking1066]

Nakajima B5N2 IJN Hiryu 1942

 

[Viking1066]

Nakajima A4N1 type 95 12th Ku 3-123

 

[Viking1066]

Nakajima A1N1 type 3 'NI-204' IJN Kaga Shanghai 1932 WIKI