Big plon
Yes, they're big
>>65494856>>65495176I fook luv the beeg plon
>>65494856i like big chaina plain :D
>>65495459I think it's amazing these things were flying in commercial service until recently.
>>65495480:D
In my dreams, I still can see her.
What was that one the Nips planed which would have been the largest aircraft ever?
>>65495741I love the Princess. Early postwar airplanes were wild.
>>65495905KX-3
>>65495459>>65495558
>>65495921Ty! Now, if built, would she even be able to fly?
>>65494856https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_n_lG-IdSk
>大東亜戦争時、第二次真珠湾攻撃「K作戦」直前、クェゼリン環礁付近で潜水艦からの洋上補給を実施する「二式大艇」を撮影した当時の写真。(*・∀・)ゞ>This photograph was taken during the Greater East Asia War, just before the Second Pearl Harbor Attack, "Operation K," showing a Type 2 Flying Boat carrying out underway resupply from a submarine near Kwajalein Atoll. (*・∀・)ゞ
Emily Interior
>>65495633checked, one of the wackiest
>>65494856I hope the the US adopts the US-2 I would do just about anything to fly it
>>65496349>(You) againyes we know, anon
>>65495921Pretty sure that big cunt ended up being the centrepiece of a Lupin III episode.
>>65497550Probably one directed by Miyazaki too. >The Emily is being positioned on the deck cradle aboard Akitsushima, giving an excellent impression of the size of the aircraft. Akitsushima could hoist even the Mavis or Emily aboard for servicing, but the aircraft had to be returned to the water to take off.
>>65497521By all accounts the HK8 Emily was pretty tough and a solid machine... but I don't get why they made it so big. PBY Catalina seems just right for WW2 jobs and WW2 battlespace dimensions. Not impossible to conceal either.I guess the HK8 has a big enough belly to deliver useful quantity of supplies per trip?... but if you're desperate enough to resort to that, it probably follows the airspace is contested, so... this conspicuous fatty would prob get downed, as history showed.>>65495921Is this basically the jap equivalent of Amerikabomber?Like the idea's to stuff 200 paratroopers in there, use the vast belly to support a trans-oceabic flight, and then poop out the paras over PNW or Los Angeles, et cetera?
>>65497599>but I don't get why they made it so bigTo give it a longer range mainly. IJN also went in on floatplane fighters and bombers under the assumption they would be operating in areas before airfields were set up. With the Emily specifically there was also a desire for it to be able to reach Pearl Harbor from the Marshall Islands, but in actual practice this wasn't particularly effective (Operation K).>To achieve the desired range [of 3,900 nautical miles] a total of six large fuel tanks were located within the hull worked in conjunction with eight smaller wing tanks; when full, fuel alone comprised 29 percent of the flying boat's maximum take-off weight.
>>65496187>AI colorizing>Deletes one of the motors
Theres something that is so right about this design
>>65498392Fug :DDDD
>>65497599>but I don't get why they made it so big. PBY Catalina seems just right for WW2 jobsH8K >Range: 7,152km>Max Speed: 467kmhPBY-5>Range: 4,060km>Max Speed: 315kmh
>>65498604H8K was twice the weight of PBY, had twice as many more powerful engines, and had more than twice the fuel capacity (18,880 L vs. 7,000 L)A more apt comparison between the H8K would be Short Sunderland (and more appropriately its post-war upengined successor the S.45 Seaford) or Consolidated PB2Y Coronadothe post-war Seaford with 1,720 hp Bristol Hercules engines had a gross weight of 75,000 lb comparable to the H8K and 5,000 km rangePB2Y-5 had a MTOW of 66,000 with about 2,000 km range<--probably the least impressive of WWII flying boats with its 10,000 L fuel capacity; the Coronado also had kind of an odd design with bomb bays in the wings. Many of them ended up utilized by NATS as -3R and -5R unarmed cargo & personnel / VIP transports. Pic is a factory fresh PB2Y-2 (BuNo 1633, the first -2 built) of VP-13 in Navy pre-acceptance flight over San Diego 26 November 1940The PBY had superior long range loiter time than any WWII maritime patrol flying boat due to its low cruise speed of about 130 mph.
Is there ever a case of these planes landing on water and being struck by storm not being able to fly off? Maybe its too easy to see an approaching storm.
>>65502650USS Salisbury Sound (AV-13) hoisting a P5M Marlin
>>65502650>>65502680>P5Mcorrection: a P5M-1 Marlin, the first variant with low-mounted stabilizer (pic is from 1957 so at that time was the more common version in service; the later P5M-2 with T-tail had begun deliveries in mid-1954)
Blohm und Voss ftw
I have a dumb question. Has anyone been caught by a storm while landed? I assume its too easy to see a storm on the horizon and just fuck off before the waves and the wind become too strong to take off.
pic related also looks like a flying boat
