It's a very interesting design, Chris. Its amphibious nature no doubt had a
lot to do with it.
Chris
On 11 Oct 2011, at 01:43, Chris Trask wrote:
> I guess I became enamoured with the SA-16 after seeing the movie "Last
> Flight from Ashia" (Yul Brenner, Charlton Heston), and which is why I still
> refer to it as such. I came away from that movie saying to myself "I gotta
> get me one of those." It appears on a daytime movie channel here every so
> often and I just watch it and sigh.
>
> The pilots sit on separtate platforms either side of a galleyway that
> leads to a door beneath the instrument panel. In a sea anchorage, the
> loadmaster goes through the door, opens a hatch in the nose, and tosses out
> the anchor. Engine controls are mounted overhead since there is no centre
> pedastel.
>
> Chris
>
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