[ARC5] PBY Radios

[Raymond F Chase]

I was just researching the Midway Naval battle and found that somehow they
fitted PBY's with torpedoes and one sunk a Jap tanker with its torpedo.
Surprisingly the torpedo worked, at this stage of the war our torpedoes
often failed to function.
Ray

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From: ARC5 [mailto:arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Kenneth G.
Gordon
Sent: Friday, May 19, 2017 11:10 AM
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Subject: Re: [ARC5] PBY Radios

On 19 May 2017 at 10:56, Robert  Eleazer wrote:

> 
> 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

I have always thought that the PBY was an excellent airplane, not properly
appreciated by most WWII airplane buffs.

The history of the "Black Cats" is particularly interesting.

I remember one incident when a PBY found a Japanese fleet. Zeros were sent
up to intercept it and shoot it down. It flew into a big cloud bank, and
"wouldn't come out", so it got away clean.

Ken W7EKB



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