[Milsurplus] "Across The Pacific" PBS Documentary

[MICHAEL BITTNER]

Hi Brian,

When i visited the Naval Air Museum in Pensacola many years ago, there was a PBM outside, still being restored and not available for close view.  The highlight for mil surplus radio fans is the cutaway of the PBY where you can reach in and actually touch the radios in the radio compartment.  The Hickory Museum sounds interesting.

I didn't know Hughes practiced on a PBM prior to flying his Spruce Goose.  Attached is a photo of Hughes taxi testing a radio controlled flying boat model on some body of water.   BTW, making magneto and propeller pitch checks in any seaplane can get interesting.  Since they have no brakes, you are committed to high speed taxiing (up to 60 knots) while checking the mags.  And since you can check only one engine at a time, you have to deal with the asymmetrical thrust in a multi-engine aircraft.

Mike, W6MAB

> On June 8, 2020 at 2:27 PM Brian Harrison <briankn4r at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>     Hi Michael,
> 
>     Tnx for the response and terrific on all
> 
>     That’s the only pict I know of showing Leuteritz's earliest loop development 1927-28
>     The spiral winding may have been a fluke or he may have gone a different “direction" (get it? :-) later
>     (ie the outside diamond-shaped loop antenna in use early to mid-1935 at Miami emailed last night)
> 
>     Very interesting on PBM-5!
>     I think there’s one at Naval Air Museum Pensacola, here are picts of a visit a few years ago:
>     https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1EKy-2TsraN45vsrEX_qjxzGUM_hz4dbV?usp=sharing
>     Isn’t this the aircraft Howard Hughes bought a couple of and practiced on Lake Meade (?) prior to flying his Spruce Goose?
> 
>     My brother was a P3 Navigator for approximately 10 years active (then went with Lockheed)
>     If you are ever in NC there is a great aviation museum at the Hickory NC regional airport that is associated with the Pensacola Naval Museum (overflow storage?) including a P3-C that can be toured - picts here:
>     https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1kBudVQouoCSq5t5B5QRABYQBndQ7bSmk
> 
>     best,
> 
>     brian
>     kn4r
> 
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