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| Author: | Pat Carry [ Mon Aug 25, 2014 11:14 am ] |
| Post subject: | you gotta love the 707 |
www.rbogash.com/Boeing/707-is-60.html |
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| Author: | SaxMan [ Tue Sep 09, 2014 7:44 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: you gotta love the 707 |
Great article - It's not 100% accurate regarding the Boeing 314. There was a military follow-on, the Boeing PB-1, but it turned out to be quite unsatisfactory. So, the Navy agreed to drop production of the PB-1 so that the plant could be used to produce Boeing's new long range bomber -- the B-29. Had the PB-1 been a success, the Navy may have been more reticent to turn over the production facilities and the B-29s production may have been delayed long enough to impact how World War II eventually ended. There probably still would have been an A-bomb, but only after an invasion of mainland Japan. |
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| Author: | JohnB [ Wed Sep 10, 2014 11:48 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: you gotta love the 707 |
From what I've read, written by Boeing engineer and aviation historian peter M. Bowers, technically the PB-1 was fine. He asserts that after the Battle of Midway, the Navy decided it wanted land based patrol bombers instead of flying boats...so the PB-1 was dropped and aircraft like the PBJ and were bought instead. |
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| Author: | SaxMan [ Fri Sep 12, 2014 12:16 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: you gotta love the 707 |
Correction - it was the PBB-1 Sea Ranger, not a PB-1. The PB-1 was, of course, the Navy equivalent of the B-17. A little more research on the topic indicates that John B's account is an accurate one. The PBB-1 was considered unnecessary with the advent of longer ranged land based patrol aircraft. It was quite a plane, though. |
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| Author: | daviemax [ Sat Sep 13, 2014 6:35 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: you gotta love the 707 |
Another point, that is the PBB-1 had a B-29-type wing and two R-3350 engines. Therefore it was quite dissimilar to the 314. |
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| Author: | Jerry O'Neill [ Fri Oct 03, 2014 7:24 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: you gotta love the 707 |
"...it can do everything but read."!!!! |
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