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1. Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Aug-2023 09:53:09 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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   @NitroDubs @givenup @poastoak Cool in theory, retarded in practice. It’s probably never gonna result in a single new airframe.

   There’s no skill, no machinery for it anymore. All of that stuff was designed around old school procedures, so now they have to retrain people, redesign stuff, and make a 1930’s production line to end up with something that’s heavier, bigger, and more expensive than a new aircraft would be. I just don’t see it happening without considerable revisions. And that’s money. They wouldn’t be resurrecting a cheap type certificate like this if they had money. They’ll probably just make parts, and this whole thing was designed to make headlines and garner attention to their brand as the home for the type now.

   I love the catalina, been in them before and it would be a dream, but I’m a realist. In a way I hate this stuff, it’s like seeing them reanimate a loved one from the grave. It’s disrespectful, a dead end that will never recapture the magic. Just design a new damn boat. Or get the navy off its negroid ass and finish the amphibious C130.

   Or buy the japs’ seaplane. Done. This offers pretty much everything the catalina does, and it’s in production, known, and has at least 60 years of modernization (likely more) baked in from the start.