"China to deliver world’s largest amphibious aircraft by 2022" Topic
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 Editor in Chief Bill   | 15 May 2018 8:52 p.m. PST |
…China developed the AG600 as part of a drive to modernize its military, amid a more muscular approach to territorial disputes in places like the South China Sea that has rattled nerves in the Asia-Pacific region and the United States… link |
Cacique Caribe  | 15 May 2018 9:12 p.m. PST |
So things might get a whole lot more interesting in 2022? Or is it going to sit pretty parked somewhere? Funding a Manchurian candidate at the right time would make the building of that beast a lot less necessary, and probably cost less money. Dan |
| princeman | 16 May 2018 6:03 a.m. PST |
Does not look that large to me. |
| 28mm Fanatik | 16 May 2018 7:30 a.m. PST |
Speaking of large amphibious planes, I saw Howard Hughes' "Spruce Goose" once when it was at Long Beach harbor. Very impressive. |
| Cacique Caribe | 16 May 2018 7:47 a.m. PST |
Really? Wow, that must have been a beauty. Dan |
| 28mm Fanatik | 16 May 2018 8:25 a.m. PST |
Yes. It was back in the '80s so my eyes were filled with child-like wonder. I saw the "Queen Mary" much later and, impressive as she is, it wasn't quite as memorable. |
| emckinney | 16 May 2018 8:27 a.m. PST |
Meh. Although I do think that amphibians have been underrated for long-range search & rescue. Yes, they can't land in rough seas, but their range and speed are so much greater than helicopters, they seem necessary for immense, but relatively low-population nations like Australia. Ooh, ooh! Zeppelin helicopter carriers! |
| Mark Plant | 16 May 2018 8:28 a.m. PST |
Seventeen fire-fighting aircraft. If that is sabre-rattling, imagine if they buy any planes with actual guns! |
| emckinney | 16 May 2018 8:28 a.m. PST |
Despite living right by it, I never saw the Spruce Goose. Now live around the corner from where it was built. And around the corner from where masses of SBDs were built … |
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