[ARC5] PBY Radios

[Robert Eleazer]

Just read in a history of the PBY Catalina that in 1939 the British bought one so they could evaluate it.  Consolidated flew one over to England, flying nonstop from Newfoundland.  The British response when it landed was that it could not possibly have flown all that way, for one thing the engines were not leaking enough oil.

They then asked about the radios.  The American response was that they had the standard Bendix radios and they had been working San Diego while the airplane was on final approach to landing in England.  The Brits again were astounded.  So the next day they took them up and once again worked San Diego to prove it.  The Sunderland flying boat had no where near that kind of range with its radios.     

Wayne
WB5WSV
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