Roy Smith ) wrote:
: The NY Times web site every day highlights a historical front page
: article from today's date in an earlier year. Today's is from August
: 21, 1959, when Hawaii became the 50th state.
:
: http://www.nytimes.com/learning/gene.../0821.html?dpc
:
: But, what really caught my eye is another headline reading, "Navy Drops
: Jet Seaplanes; Program Cost 400 Million". I can barely make out the
: sub-headline, but I think it reads, "9 of the 14 Craft Ordered Have Been
: Delivered. 'Technical Difficulties' Called Factor in Cancellation."
: The text of the article is unreadable.
:
: Jet Seaplanes? Sounds kind of neat. Anybody know anything more about
: these?
:

The U.S. Navy had two jet sea plane programs, the Convair XF2Y-1 Seadart,
and the Martin P6M-2 Seamaster flying boat:

http://www.strange-mecha.com/aircraft/J-Sea/J-Sea.htm
Jet Sea Plane & Jet Flying Boat PAGE


http://www.faqs.org/docs/air/avcmast.html
The Martin SeaMaster & Convair Sea Dart

--Jerry Leslie
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