"Sherman's Lagoon"

[Merlin Dorfman]

The somewhat obscure comic strip, "Sherman's Lagoon," had a
fairly creditable PBY in its July 20 cartoon:
<http://www.slagoon.com/dailies/SL03.07.27.gif>. I'm not aware of
any PBYs that are used as water bombers (don't think they'd be very
good at it...) but this strip has had realistic WW II aircraft
previously--a TBF/TBM a couple of years ago IIRC.
Does anybody know whether the artist (Jim Toomey) is a WW II
or airplane buff?

[Steven P. McNicoll]

"Merlin Dorfman" > wrote in message
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>
> The somewhat obscure comic strip, "Sherman's Lagoon," had a
> fairly creditable PBY in its July 20 cartoon:
> <http://www.slagoon.com/dailies/SL03.07.27.gif>. I'm not aware of
> any PBYs that are used as water bombers (don't think they'd be very
> good at it...) but this strip has had realistic WW II aircraft
> previously--a TBF/TBM a couple of years ago IIRC.
>

I believe the beginning of the film "Always" had a PBY taking on water in
the same manner.

[JDupre5762]

>> The somewhat obscure comic strip, "Sherman's Lagoon," had a
>> fairly creditable PBY in its July 20 cartoon:
>> <http://www.slagoon.com/dailies/SL03.07.27.gif>. I'm not aware of
>> any PBYs that are used as water bombers (don't think they'd be very
>> good at it...)


>I believe the beginning of the film "Always" had a PBY taking on water in
>the same manner.

Most of the PBY's used for fire fighting have been reengined with Wright R-2600
hundred engines which is probably what makes them satisfactory for that
demanding work. Not sure though how many are still active in that role.

John Dupre'