Vindication for the P- 6. M Sea. Masterwww. Qow. Tqmx. YZ1. Q. The invention of the military seaplane, like the tracked tank, the Amphibious Commandos, the Hurricat, the Landing Ship Tank, were all the brain- childs of Winston Churchill, no doubt the greatest man of the 2. The jet engine perfected gave us MACH 3+ plus stealthy SR- 7. The Official Newsletter of THE NAVAL AIRSHIP ASSOCIATION, INC. 81 Spring 2009 Special Reunion Issue Top left and right: Charlie Herbert and crew members at Glynco. Please note that this text-only version. Malcolm Ross (balloonist) 204,344. They were able to slow their. Navy Balloons and the Airship Program. LZ 129 Hindenburg (Luftschiff Zeppelin. They Sailed the Skies: U.S. Navy Balloons and the Airship Program. The webportal for Zeppelin mail and airship. B- 5. 2 Stratofortress heavy bombers (see story on bottom of the page), moving propellers the t- tail STOL airland and airdrop C- 1. Hercules transport plane, moving rotor blades, troop V/TOL helicopters, nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers, aluminum alloy tracked armored fighting vehicles (AFVs) that can swim and be parachute airdropped, an armored flying tank with a massive 3. He liked to praise the over- achieving nature of his fellow depression- era survivors for developing things like Higgins boats and C- 4. Ike was a compromising politician not a practical problem solver (maybe that's why he admired those that could?) and lacked a feel for combat realities. Chairmen of the Joint Chiefs, General George C. Marshall wanted to fire Ike but FDR over- ruled him. The result was the mythology of Ike as a war hero when the fact is that he couldn't focus resources into his most competent commander, Patton and this enabled the Russian communists to take Berlin and other key city centers damning the world to a super power confrontation for 5 decades. Ike chose to not choose and tried to supply both Patton and Montgomery's armies in a . Navy Plan Orange» Forums » Sessions. Especially so if they pick CVs with fully loaded flight decks. By the time it was realized that the secret Nazi weapons labs had to be taken, Ike had to sacrifice half of eastern Europe in order to free Patton to get their technology. Ike was horrified by the Allied casualties during the Bulge and this aversion to land maneuver combat created by his own incompetence to see how ground warfighting could be done well resulted in him later on as President embracing nuclear firepower as somehow a threat that would prevent wars in the first place. Ike came to become President in the aftermath of the post- WWII drawdown of ground combat powers and the failure of American nuclear firepower to stop the Korean war. After becoming President in 1. Ike threatened Red China and North Korea with nuclear weapons and got them to sign a truce, ending the Korean war in a stalemate. Yet in 1. 95. 4, Ike refused to threaten nukes to save the French surrounded at the Dien Bien Phu firebase. Ike embraced the concept of . US Navy Balloons and the Airship Program. Taking advantage of the new plastic balloon technology, they initiate. They sailed the skies; U.S. Navy Balloons and the Airship Program', Naval. Navy's General Board had suggested an aircraft-carrier construction program in 1918. They Sailed the Skies: U.S. Navy Balloons And the Airship Program. The Man Who Touched the Sky. During the 1. 95. Do. D's monies went towards NUCLEAR weapons at the expense of conventional forces despite time after time, conflicts less than nuclear often instigated by the Soviets- -popping up with America not ready to intervene competently: Vietnam, Lebanon and Hungary come to mind. Certainly, it was Eisenhower's rejection of his own albeit weak Army maneuver warfare background in favor of lazy- man nuclear firepower and mental gadgetry to allegedly . As a man who did not have practical inventive skills, Ike rightly loathed the . Eisenhower penny- pinching also caused the corrupt large aircraft carrier forces within the Navy to cancel the greatest jet multi- purpose seaplane of all time, the P- 6. M Seamaster, which has had damaging consequences that linger to the present and bode ill for our future. The ultimate responsibility rests on the Chief of Naval Operations for 6 years- -longer than so far anyone- -Admiral Arleigh Burke. During his tenure from 1. August 1. 95. 5 to 0. August 1. 96. 1, the Sea. Dart jet seaplane fighter was axed. Then the POGO VTOL convoy defense fighter. When the Tradewind seaplanes had bad engines instead of grounding them and looking for reliable contraprop engines like the Mambas used successfully in the British Gannet ASW/AEW planes, he scrapped the capability to land ground troops by seaplanes and air- refuel aircraft at sea from ships. Then he appointed or tolerated the rise to power in the Navy aeronautical bureau of a complete aircraft carrier asshole; Admiral Pirie, who then marginalized lighter- than- air (LTA) blimps after they earned the coveted Collier Trophy for an amazing 1. In a speech on naval aviation, Pirie did not even mention the Navy's LTA or jet seaplane programs, and the NANEWS staff noted he gushed about his beloved BS large aircraft carriers. Anytime the seaplanes could be cut, they were cut. Try the following list on for size and note at one time nearly ALL OF THEM WERE IN SERVICE AT THE SAME TIME!!! How many trainers did the Navy actually need? Is it any wonder that the Navy was ? Parker aka bobnutes. Ralph Hendrix (kemo) chief engine mechanic. This a/c was powered by Allison J7. Pratt & Whitney's Twin Eagle J5. The mine bay was capable of carrying 1. I assisted with engine installation and test on and off a/c test cell and noise suppression ground tests through one of the worst winters on record. The test pilot in charge was C. H. Corb Johnson, a huge careful man. The oxygen regulator was not to his liking and the flight was scrubbed with the admiral sitting in his caddy limo. A few weeks later, the program was cancelled in favor of the nuclear sub and nuclear missile programs headed by Rickover. Ships # 5- 6- 7- 8 were still under assembly at main plant. The beaching vehicle was a problem along with the foul weather during the winter months. The sight of the airplane with the chase plane, a RB- 4. Strawberry Facility was a joyful sight. Hats off for the men and women who assembled and flew this great aircraft. Thanks for handicapping our Navy. To Burke: why did we name a line of vulnerable surface ships after you that are going to get sunk and send thousands of men to early deaths because you set them up for failure? People cause wars and they live on land. To get political effect, warfare must affect people on land. One of the tragedies of WW2 is that we walked away from it learning the wrong lessons in a case of who- gets- the- land- attack- licks- in- first, being remembered and emulated in our current un- balanced and dangerously unready naval force structure. If a weapon system does not achieve political effects it will not be rewarded by the tax payers with a continued existence regardless of how important or vital the roles it performs at sea where no one sees them doing these heroic deeds nor gives a damn. When a nation- state is attacked it wants BLOOD not operational art that provides leverage to end a war with the least amount of blood being shed. Land Attack (LA) provides the . At a critical juncture the twin- engined PBY Catalina seaplane was put into mass- production and it gave us the critical edge in both the Atlantic and the Pacific at finding enemy submarines and surface ships first and then enabling naval commanders to . Naval aviation genius, Glenn Martin had improved upon the Catalina with his PBM Mariner and the 4- engined Coronado by a rival company were advancing the patrol and combat search & rescue missions with slightly faster speeds, longer ranges, more armor and armament and open ocean water landing capabilities. However, Martin was already thinking of projecting LA power by large seaplanes in two ways; by firepower using them as long- range bombers to smash land targets and for maneuver delivering ground troops to defeat land armies, hold key terrain and eventually topple the enemy nation- state government. Being able to land on the water in the ocean to refuel from surface or submarine tenders was and still is a HUGE advantage, but the fuselage boat shape is not and hurts aerodynamically with speed reducing drag. When Martin designed his supersized Mars . At this critical, pre- Pearl Harbor Japanese attack juncture, the Navy told him to make the Mars a transport and this tragically stopped seaplane LA development for a decade. And most importantly for getting the necessary political visibility effect to make a place for seaplanes, the Mars bomber was not ready when the Japanese took our bait and attacked our WW1 battleships at Pearl Harbor so the American people would be pissed off enough to declare war on them and by alliance fight the real mortal threat to America, the high technology Nazi Germans. Details. http: //en. Doolittle. That's over 1. B- 2. 5C could deliver. In fact, with 1. 6 x Doolittle B- 2. Hornet, a pair of Mars seaplanes could deliver more damage than a squadron and a half B- 2. NIGHT would be a wash. As we know now with 2. B- 2. 5s were shot down even during daylight on the surprise Doolittle raid, but resulted in the execution deaths of some brave Americans by the sore loser asshole Jap militarists after they were forced down in China and captured. We know ALL of the Doolittle raiders crash landed or parachuted into occupied China because they RAN OUT OF FUEL since there was no . Which in any case was high- tailing it out of the area before they got attacked and sunk. So here is the point, and I'm sure you see it coming. There is a good chance that NONE of these raiders would have died at all. None would have been forced to crashland or bail out in China because they didn't have a way home. AND 1. 0, 0. 00 MEN AND TWO ALLEGEDLY VITAL AND . Chinese were murdered by the Japs trying to find Doolittle's men; if we had used self- recovering seaplanes they wouldn't have had been provoked to seek revenge on them for helping the American raiders. Spennemann. The atolls of Micronesia are ideally suited for seaplane operations. Atolls are rings of coral reef usually with a large and quite calm lagoon in the middle. The islands on the windward side of the reefs provide an ideal plane anchorage on the leeward beach, sheltered from wind and waves. The lagoon is usually clam enough to permit unrestricted landing and take- off of larger flying boats, and so it is not surprising that the lagoons were used as seaplane bases first by civilian and later by military aviation. The seaplane base were officially operated by a civilian airline, the Dai Nippon Koku K. K. The first irregular air service flying Yokohama, Saipan and Palau opened in 1. The flights became more frequent in 1. Robert - USS Shenandoah on Pinterest. Note how close the ship landed to both the road in the front and the road behind - almost perfect alignment - thank goodness it avoided the homes in the area! Fourteen of her 4. Zachary Lansdowne.
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