If you look him up on some youtubes, it was the guy's usual routine, for which hisWho woulda thought a B52 could do a 90 degree turn fifty feet off the deck that slow.
commanding officer was going to fire him over, the very guy you see ejecting,
and who rode onboard to make sure THIS did not happen(and who was blown back
into the fireball)...
As for the aileron down deflection aggravating a high speed stall in big wing airplanes,
like the canso and B-52, it was explained to me by some of the guys who designed the CL-215.
He stated that lot of PBYs met their demise that way...
The PBY was used in various roles for thirty years before water bombing was invented,
and then most crews where not as experimented as they where when
it was used as a water bomber...
Check the Cousteau crash...just because seas touched the gear doors, they collapsed,All aircraft have their limitations and the PBY is no exception,
but I believe you are over stating the limitations of a PBY by making
the statement they are only good in sheltered waters such as lakes.
engulfing the cockpit with water and pushing it up in the props...
Compare with the incident in Nice(pronounced niss) in 81...
The guys TO from the runway to scoop right off in the mediterranean,
but forgot the land-sea switch in land,
so they touched down with the gear down.
The gearboxes broke off and both props fell in the sea, never to be seen again.
Otherwise, not a scratch on the plane(discounting the gear doors, of course)
Next day, a barge brought two QEC, promptly installed. Next day, two doors
where lashed to the nose and the plane was flown to Marignane by the
same crew...The Pasha(the boss over there) refusing ANY time off to the crew
for the screw up.
It would have taken longer just to bury the crew if they had been flying a Canso...