Bill Walker wrote:
JDK wrote:
That's interesting. I'd be very interested if you can find the reference.
I think it was an article in Air Enthusiast, or maybe even Flying Review, prior to about 1978. My copies are all in boxes deep in the basement, so it may take a while to confirm this.
I'm pretty sure about the date, as I was involved in performance testing on a small flying boat in 1978, as a very junior engineer. I remember discussing the article with the other engineers, and suggesting that we should be looking for 4 or 5 foot waves (the aircraft was stressed and tested for 2 foot waves). This produced a lot of laughter and rolling of eyes in the office that day.
Hi Bill, I would be most interested - as you may know I wrote a book on the Walrus and Stranraer, and continue to research them. Interestingly, there was a postwar tank test of a model Walrus undertaken in the UK (papers in the National Archives - I have a copy somewhere)which concluded that the aircraft was very poor as a seaworthy machine. Again, postwar views that hardly gell with the wartime experience!
Like the story - I suppose you weren't meant to break the aircraft though.
