01-12-2011, 06:54 AM
Kevin suggested it to me as a good candidate for a model
It's quite an interesting aircraft historicaly.
Believe it or not, it was launched from the deck of a submarine!!
It was used mostly for recon missions and there were two flights of these over Sydney in WWII. This was in preperation for the well known midgit submarine attack on Sydney Harbour. Its worth noting that this was done with two different planes and that both were damaged either on landing or retrival to the sub and scuttled. So we have two of them sitting on the bottom out of the coast somewhere. On both occasions the crew survived. There were two different crews apparently.
There were several Jap subs equipped with these little sea planes and I think there was over 100 built.
There were recon flights over Melbourne Newcastle Hobart Aucland and Wellington made with these little planes.
It's quite an interesting aircraft historicaly.
Believe it or not, it was launched from the deck of a submarine!!
It was used mostly for recon missions and there were two flights of these over Sydney in WWII. This was in preperation for the well known midgit submarine attack on Sydney Harbour. Its worth noting that this was done with two different planes and that both were damaged either on landing or retrival to the sub and scuttled. So we have two of them sitting on the bottom out of the coast somewhere. On both occasions the crew survived. There were two different crews apparently.
There were several Jap subs equipped with these little sea planes and I think there was over 100 built.
There were recon flights over Melbourne Newcastle Hobart Aucland and Wellington made with these little planes.
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