Is anyone out there designing a scale PBY Catalina?

Dibs on shotgun on SECOND passenger flight!

Bryan

UltraJohn wrote in message ink.net...
Hey maybe he is as interested in designing as he is building and flying!
Go for it.
John
Dibs on shotgun on first passenger flight! ;-)


Shiver Me Timbers wrote:

Instead of designing and building something that may or may not work
and taking years in the process why don't you just go out and
buy the closest equivalent and have a certified airplane in the process.

The Canadair CL-215.

Big, roomy, radial engines, certified, you can redo the interior to
your own specs, and if you want the big bulgy widows on the sides....
why not.

Available now...... You could be actually flying throughout those
Pacific Islands within months.

Probably best single engine climb and best glide.

Maybe best approach speed, max gear extension, best speed for IMC, best
attack speed, max speed with any windows open?

"Tom Osmundson" wrote in message
om...
Yea, I've herd that before... 90kts is best climb, best cruise speed
for range, and something else...

Big John wrote in message
. ..
Dan

My good buddy (now deceased) who flew 'Cats', told me 90, 90, 90.

Big John (Out of the hospital and kind of back with the living)
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On 10 Jun 2004 22:14:55 GMT, (B2431) wrote:

From: "John Oliveira"


PBY was only US warplane (not counting single engine observation) that
did
not have flaps!
"Tom Osmundson"

The running gag at the tim was that the Cat had a take off speed of 100
kt,
cruise speed of 100kt and a stall speed of 100kt.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired