Talk:Dumbo (air-sea rescue)

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Did you know... that American Dumbo rescue flights (aircraft pictured) worked with submarines and surface boats to help save downed airmen in the Pacific War?

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C-46 also Dumbo

You might want to point out that the Curtiss C-46 Commando, especially famous for its yeoman work on the Hump route between India and China during World War II, was also commonly nicknamed Dumbo, possibly even before the word was applied to ASR aircraft. A citation would be page 17 of Don Downie's book "Flying the Hump," where he writes, "...you applied some back pressure at about 85 mph and let Dumbo--a nickname for the C-46--lift herself off the strip." (Downie was a C-46 Hump pilot.) The C-46 was so-named, I assume, because of its fat, cigar-shaped fuselage and its considerable size; at the time it was the biggest twin-engine aircraft in the world, slightly larger even than the four-engine Boeing B-17 bomber.173.62.11.254 (talk) 22:30, 19 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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