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Re: [ATM] RE: Magnalium

I believe that the record was broken around 1980 by a Canadian Air Force
Canadair Argus just before it was retired. Non stop from Honolulu to
Greenwood Nova Scotia. It was a modified Bristol Britannia airframe with
four radial engines.

George Anderson
Montreal Canada

Clear skies and good health

Jerry wrote:
> 
> As a young child the probably the most famous P2V, the Truculent Turtle was
> placed on display right across the street from my parents house in Norfolk
> VA. It stayed there for 15 years (we didn't) before being moved farther
> inside the Naval Base. It was a long time holder of the un-refueled distance
> record, a flight from Perth Australia to Columbus Ohio. A friends father was
> a crewman on a P2 and he showed me and his son the airplane sometime around
> 1958 or 1959. I still have a pair of earphones his dad gave me although in
> terrible condition now. The first airplane I had ever been in. I'm sorry we
> couldn't have taken her up.
> 
> CAVU
> 
> Jerry
> 
> How about the Lockheed P-2V Neptune? 2 radials and two turbojets...
> 
> George
> 
> Clear skies and good health
> 
> -----
> 
> > It was
> > the only airplane to use both piston engines and turbojet engines to
> propel
> > it.
> > Dave
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