• There seems to be an uptick in Political comments in recent months. Those of us who are long time members of the site know that Political and Religious content has been banned for years. Nothing has changed. Please leave all political and religious comments out of the forums.

    If you recently joined the forums you were not presented with this restriction in the terms of service. This was due to a conversion error when we went from vBulletin to Xenforo. We have updated our terms of service to reflect these corrections.

    Please note any post refering to a politician will be considered political even if it is intended to be humor. Our experience is these topics have a way of dividing the forums and causing deep resentment among members. It is a poison to the community. We appreciate compliance with the rules.

    The Staff of SOH

  • Server side Maintenance is done. We still have an update to the forum software to run but that one will have to wait for a better time.

The "Truculent Turtle"

Moses03

Moses03

Jr. Admin
Staff member
On Sept 29th 1946, a Lockeed P2V-1 named the "Truculent Turtle" or "Turtle" took off from Perth Australia with a full crew, one baby kangaroo and as much avgas as they could muster and set down in Columbus, Ohio 2.5 days later on Oct 1st. They covered 11,235.6 miles non-stop in 55hrs 18min setting an all-time record for piston engined aircraft.

majx2p.jpg



The record stood until 1986 when Dick Rutan circled the globe in his experimental "Voyager".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutan_Voyager


The whole story here:
http://p2vneptune.com/turtle.shtml
 
The AlphaSim version of the P2V does not resemble the Truculent Turtle. It was an very early mark with out the the radome underneath. Although I'm suprised that people don't know about her. It was one of the aviation highlights of 1946. I believe that she is now in the Smithsonian.
 
I like the earlier versions without the tip tanks and jet pods. Has a much "cleaner" look.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top