goes2fast Posted January 7, 2016 Report Share Posted January 7, 2016 When I was in the Coast Guard they still had a couple of these. 1 Quote Link to comment
MikeRL411 Posted January 8, 2016 Report Share Posted January 8, 2016 When I was in the Coast Guard they still had a couple of these. Grumman Goose? Or later model [can't remember nomenclature] that used to fly between San Pedro CA and Catalina Island? Still remember them taking off in the channel under the bridge between San Pedro and Terminal Island! Quote Link to comment
goes2fast Posted January 8, 2016 Report Share Posted January 8, 2016 Grumman Goose? Or later model [can't remember nomenclature] that used to fly between San Pedro CA and Catalina Island? Still remember them taking off in the channel under the bridge between San Pedro and Terminal Island! I don't know the exact model, just remember seeing one at the San Diego CG air station when I went there a couple of times. I was on a medium endurance cutter that had a helo deck, so mostly dealt with choppers, and I don't even remember which ones they were using, just heard that after that they switched to some French built model that they had lot's of problems with. Quote Link to comment
VFR800 Posted January 8, 2016 Report Share Posted January 8, 2016 Grumman Goose? Or later model [can't remember nomenclature] that used to fly between San Pedro CA and Catalina Island? Still remember them taking off in the channel under the bridge between San Pedro and Terminal Island! SA-16? Quote Link to comment
MikeRL411 Posted January 9, 2016 Report Share Posted January 9, 2016 I don't know the exact model, just remember seeing one at the San Diego CG air station when I went there a couple of times. I was on a medium endurance cutter that had a helo deck, so mostly dealt with choppers, and I don't even remember which ones they were using, just heard that after that they switched to some French built model that they had lot's of problems with. Alouette! With "buried" thrust tail rotor. Still flying them. See them at least twice a week from my back yard as they save another idiot from falling off the Palos Verdes cliffs or being too brave to realize that rip currents are real! Quote Link to comment
MikeRL411 Posted January 9, 2016 Report Share Posted January 9, 2016 Earliest version of the Northrop Flying Wing! Before addition of wing vertical stabilizers to improve the near impossible armstrong efforts needed to control it. BTW, I have an old Black and White photo of almost all Northrop Flying wing craft at the Hawthorne CA airport, including those in retrofit from prop to jet engines, less 2 in Edwards AFB. Can't figure out how to convert from Northrop University paper brochure to digital format. My scanner is of an antigue vintage and does not "talk" to any current version of main software. Suggest signing in to Northrop U home page and doing a very boring general search. Showed the brochure photos to an aircraft vintage photo seller and he was blown away by the total population [almost] of Northrop Flying Wings being at one place. This was before the then Secretary of the Air Force took revenge on Jack Northrop for refusing to merge with North American and the ordered the total destruction of all existing Northrop Flying Wings. PBS did an interview with Jack Northrop many years ago and went deeply into this fiasco of having all models destroyed. By the way, on a test flight from over Catalina Island to Los Angeles, the Flying Wing flew right over the radar station on top of San Pedro Hill and was not detected by the radar! First stealth aircraft? 4 Quote Link to comment
q-tip Posted January 9, 2016 Report Share Posted January 9, 2016 Could level a mountain range with all that ordinance. Quote Link to comment
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