In 1938 the PBY was released for export and immediately Russian bought three and obtained a manufacturing licence. Of this order, 36 were delivered in 1937 and the remainder in 1938. Shortly another order for 50 machines was placed these were the PBY-2s with minor changes. These production aircraft were built at Consolidated’s new plant in San Diego, Calif. The first squadron to receive the PBY-1 was VP-11F in October 1936. Eleven were delivered in 1936 and forty-nine in 1937. Navy, impressed by the spectacular performance of the XP3Y-1, ordered 60 P3Y-1s, later designated PBY-1, on 29 June 1935. The rudder was modified by adding additional area to the trailing edge thereby eliminating the problem. When the pilot attempted to ‘get on the step’, the aircraft would drop its tail in the water the tail, then acting as a water rudder, caused the pilot to temporarily lose control, forcing him to shut his engines off immediately.
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This was due to the design of the rudder which made it difficult for the aircraft to get off the water with a full fuel load. A new international record for seaplanes was thus created with a distance of 3,281.402 statute miles.ĭuring these flights a problem was discovered. The first flight was from Norfolk to Coco Solo, Canal Zone, non-stop, and then from Coco Solo to San Francisco Bay, again non-stop, on 15 October 1935. During testing, this aircraft performed a couple of spectacular long-distance flights.
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The floats retracted outwards to form ‘wingtips’, which became a standard feature of all PBYs.Īfter further flight tests at Norfolk, Va., it was returned to the factory and fitted with 850 hp Twin Wasps and re-designated XPBY-1.
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Powered by two Pratt & Whitney Twin Wasps of 825 hp each, it was an all-metal monoplane with the wing mounted on top of the hull by a pylon which contained the flight engineer’s quarters, plus two sets of streamlined lift struts running from the waterline to the wing panel/centre section joint.
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This aircraft was first flown on 21 March 1935, at Hampton Roads, Va. Navy awarded the Consolidated Aircraft Corp., at Buffalo, N.Y., an order to build one experimental patrol aircraft designated XP3Y-1. The origins of the Canso go back to 28 October 1933.