Talk:Sikorsky S-42

message: The S-42 was not developed from the S-40. That assertion is entirely wrong. Sikorsky himself made that clear. Read his words on the matter at: http://www.sikorskyarchives.com/S-42.php The S-42 was developed because of the S-40s shortcomings.
To base an article on a single source is dubious. Especially when that source is a biography. Biographies often tend to hagiography.
The S-42 was a very important airplane for Pan Am. It replaced the Commodore on the South American and Caribbean services. It was used for trans-oceanic proving flights. 
The spread of good runways across the world negated the reason for flying boats.
Basil Rowe preferred it to the S-40.
Mark Lincoln (talk) 00:47, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  The S-42 was not developed from the S-40 

message: For a glimpse at what  it was like to travel by S-42 jn the thirties try Hudson Stroude's "South by Thunderbird", Random House, 1937. There is even a S-42 on the cover.
Never mind the fact that the subject of photo #23, labeled "thunderbird rounding Sugar Loaf, Rio de Janeiro" is a Commodore. Photo #27 is a S-42.
For a pilots eye account of flying Pan Am's boats try "Captain Lodi Speaking" by Marius "Lodi" Lodeesen. Argonaut Press, Suttons Bay, Michigan, 1984. "Here is an absolutely superb book, certainly the most true-to-life and sincereaccount of a pilot's life."
- Horace Brock former Chief Pilot, Pan American Airways
Lodi said that the S-42 was a notorious waterlooper. Considering the accident reports, he was right.
Mark Lincoln (talk) 18:29, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  For anyone interested 

message: The Navy flew the XPB2Y from from Argentia Newfoundland to Straner, Scotland in Sept. 1941. Later USN PB2Y-3Rs were operated on trans-Atlantic service from NYC to Sandy Bay, Lough Neagh in Northern Ireland. PB2Y-3Rs made 538 crossings in the Summer of 1944. Service extended to Port Lyaute, Morocco. The crews were Pan Am & AOA. 
The RAF 231 Squadron also flew the Atlantic using 10, later 12 Coronados. They operated Boucherville/Montreal to Largs, Scotland via either Botwood or Gander. Westbound they had to refuel in Iceland. The RAF made 169 North Atlantic crossings and 51 on the South Atlantic route.
The last RAF Coronado left Largs for Montreal 25 September 1945.
I do not know how many Catalina crossings were made (mostly deliveries to Britain).
If the question is what four-engined flying boat ruled the North Atlantic the answer is the Coronado.
There is a PB2Y-3R at the National Naval Aviation Museum aboard NAS Pensacola, Florida.
Mark Lincoln (talk) 02:14, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Flying Boat which made the most crossings. 

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