Dear visitor, welcome to WesWorld. If this is your first visit here, please read the Help. It explains in detail how this page works. To use all features of this page, you should consider registering. Please use the registration form, to register here or read more information about the registration process. If you are already registered, please login here.
Quoted
Specs are based off a larger, four-engined Boeing XPBB Sea Ranger
Quoted
Range is as much for loiter time as actually going places; but there is quite a bit of range required for getting a plane to Easter Island.
Quoted
Why is the landing gear strange? It's on the Catalina and practically every 1930s flying boat I've seen (perhaps with the exception of the Sunderland)
Quoted
Originally posted by Red Admiral
Quoted
Range is as much for loiter time as actually going places; but there is quite a bit of range required for getting a plane to Easter Island.
I'd go for quite a bit bigger wing then, and less powerful engines. You'll get better loiter performance with the wing and save weight from the smaller engines. Speed will reduce a bit, but really you're going to be spending all your time at ~180mph and 10,000ft and there's so much drag from the thing you're never going to make it fast.
Quoted
Okay then, I'll fiddle with it some more. Maybe try to make it a wee bit smaller, too.
Quoted
Originally posted by Red Admiral
Next question is whether it's worth spending the money developing the aircraft for a small production run or whether you can buy off the market. Looking around, the only other available option are the H6Y or H8Y if the long range is really an issue.
Quoted
It'd be nice for someone like France or Atlantis to field the development as their own, and for me to buy from them (and indeed I'm hoping just for that).
Quoted
Originally posted by Red Admiral
Quoted
It'd be nice for someone like France or Atlantis to field the development as their own, and for me to buy from them (and indeed I'm hoping just for that).
I don't think either of them really need the range though. Atlantis being in the middle of the Atlantic solves quite a lot of issues.
Quoted
Originally posted by Red Admiral
Italy could offer a land based aircraft for 1941/42 that would comfortably meet the range requirement. It just depends whether you really need a flying boat or can build some longer runways.
Quoted
Presumably Atlantis and France would require long ranges for similar reasons for the Italian aircraft. *Shrugs*
Quoted
Mebbe. The attraction of flying boats is that I can base them from bases in the Chilean fjords; a similarly-sized land-based aircraft is going to be more limited in its basing capabilities.
Quoted
I'm not sure how usable the Chilean fjords would be - most I've seen have quite a few icebergs which would hamper flying operations.
Quoted
I've just been thinking about Nordish patrol requirements, and have come to much the same conclusion, although about Norwegian rather than Chilean fjords.
Forum Software: Burning Board® Lite 2.1.2 pl 1, developed by WoltLab® GmbH