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Our Spring 2009 mystery aircraft was the XP5Y-1 flying boat patrol bomber tested in the 1950s by the U. S. Navy.
When Consolidated Vultee, also called Convair, was completing final design work at San Diego, Calif., near the end of World War II, the XP5Y-1, also called the Convair Model 117, was an exceedingly ambitious project for which the planemaker held high hopes.
Already some admirals envisioned a strategic force of seaplanes that would operate around the world, free of...
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