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Project PBY
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Best Viewed at 1024x768       (Sorry for the change)                                                                                Updated 3/14/2003

This page contains expandable thumbnail images of the project.   These images are of the plane in development.  As a result you may see paint schemes/weapons combinations that never existed.... Or in the case of the "Midway" image, that paint scheme was done away with before the battle of Midway....  Let us catch the bird, then we will properly paint her...

Please note: These images are 800X600

 

	Two Zeros find a likely target...		3 Image series: In 1943 the PBY   became the first plane to carry retro - rockets. (Note the shadow.  This is over the target).
	Break!		The rockets fired to the rear.  When launched with the plane at the proper speed, they would impact the water where the plane was at time of launch
	Three is most definitely a crowd...		To the best of my knowledge they were never used on ground targets.  These images show the precision with which they fell.
	Getting some hits in with the twin machine guns in the nose.		I get cold just looking at this one....
	Oops! It looks like turnabout is fair play...  The AI had trouble with how slow the PBY		Soviet GST. (No, that isn't oil blown on the port engine, it just hasn't been textured yet).
	Trying to make it home with a Zero on my tail...		Climbing for the safety of the clouds.
	The AI "Saving Face" because I safely landed.   (Actually he stalled when he tried to pull up after chasing me at such a slow speed).		Heading for Vladivostok.
	My battered bird safely home (except for the fire).   Note the RH engine cowl. (Or lack thereof...)		4 Image Series: Enemy shipping found, gunfire exchanged.
	On the tarmac waiting for the next mission.		Enemy gunners begin to get the range...
	A US pilot leaving on patrol teaching the British how to use the Catalina.  This plane found the Bismark... (Not sure what paint scheme she wore).		This does not, repeat not, look good.
	Exceeding the planes abilities.  Note the flex in the left wing.		There is wing area left, but not enough for controlled sustained flight.  Time to jump.
	I fought off the zero, but am going down...		An RNZAF PBY claws for the sky.
	"Leaving On Patrol"		RNZAF leaving on the hunt (though I am not sure they ever used the retro rockets).
	Staying in the clouds was one of the PBYs means of safety.  The PBY that spotted the Japanese fleet at Midway saw the ships, got into the clouds.		In some serious trouble...  PBYs were easy targets.   They could take damage like this and still land and abandon ship!!!
	The PBY then ducked in and out for 2 hours relaying data to Midway (so don't believe the movies about the PBY report of the "main Japanese fleet" as being sketchy).		Once the fuel leaked into the plane, fires could happen almost anywhere, in this case, the port blister as well as the pylon.
	While the engines would burn, so would the wing pylon as all fuel flowed through there.		A clear view of the PBY carrying its torpedo payload.
	Would not want to be a member of the tail crew in this plane.		Front on view with the gear down.  The shape of the nose is wrong (from the physical model side, that's about the only thing...).
	Gear down beauty shot (too high to be landing).		After a long patrol, home looks mighty good...