Talk:PBY-5A Catalina/@comment-1703923-20160503045726/@comment-1870533-20160505014559

Sorry but on a realistic scale this video would be rated as "ridiculous". While Catalina can carry a lot of bombs and would totally be capable of damaging some undefended transports, the machine guns would do nothing to ships. Even more blatantly problem with this video is the speed this plane is going at, it's a fixed wing aircraft and not a helicopter or a balloon, it can't go that slow without stalling and falling out of the sky. The slow turning rate of the flying boat would make it very unpractical to perform strafing runs

These planes mostly laid mines in trade routes, which was very effective.