Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] magazine article

[Coalbunny <coalbunny@onewest.net>]

I vaguely recall what he's alking about.  There was a seaplane the Japs
had, and they could break it down and carry it on a sub.  They were the
only (to the best of my knowledge) military force to have ever made a
strike against the American mainland.  The plane went in to southern
Oregon (I think) and dropped a few 20 or 50 pound incendiary bombs in
the forest.  It then returned to the sub and left.  And so on and so
on.  I did a report on it back in Jr. High.  Good report, but didn't get
a good grade.  Some how people, even now, think (ot thought) that I was
full of BS when I tell of the Japs attacking the mainland.  Some people
don't even know that the Japs help a couple of small bases in the
Alutians during the early years of the war....
Carl


"Michael B. Holt" wrote:
> 
> > Samuel Eisenberg wrote:
> >
> > http://www.skyhawk.org/aus_sub.htm
> 
> Not even *I* would want to try that.  I gotta talk with
> someone who was there ...
> 
> > Not Convair (I remember that Convair had some delta winged
> > plane that had water-ski things and could take off from the
> > water. There's one outside the aerospace museum in San Diego.
> > Anyone know more?), but the same idea. Air & Space had an
> > article on the Japanese folding airplane that launched from a
> > sub in WWII a couple of issues ago.
> 
> Convair built a handful of screwball delta-wing jets
> in the early 50s.  The seaplane was the F-7 Sea Dart.
> It worked, sort of.  I have a book that has a chapter
> on it.
> 
> Is that Air & Space article on line anywhere?  I'd
> like to know more about little Japanse planes.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Mike

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