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Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] magazine article
Coalbunny schrieb:
>
> 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
Hi -
The first link gets to the Japanese base on the Aleutians the others to
Submarine aircraft carriers. Even the British has an underwater aircraft
carrier.
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/s100000/s189261.jpg
http://formen.ign.com/news/29277.html
http://www.divernet.com/wrecks/wtour5799.htm
The Convair was the Convair XF 2Y "Sea Dart" a Delta wing jet able to
start from
the water surface - first flights about 1953..
http://www.vectorsite.net/avcmast.html
see you - Carsten
>
> "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
>
> --
> "The plain meaning of the right of the people to keep arms is that it is
> an individual, rather than a collective, right and is not limited to
> keeping arms while engaged in active military service or as a member of
> a select militia such as the National Guard." - U.S. vs. Emerson, 5th
> Circuit Federal Court- published October 16, 2001