Talk:P6M SeaMaster

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Needs an infobox, fairly decent information but details, details. Regrettable that the importance is "low" but as a "failed type" and obscure to boot it's not as important as some others, despite being one of the great What-Ifs and (not NPOV) worst decisions-to-cancel ever made (/not NPOV). - Aerobird 04:29, 16 December 2006 (UTC)

You have details. The airplane was magnificent. It's performance was astounding given the problems inherent with seaplanes. The decision to cancel was fully justified. The program had slipped for too long, was so far over budget that the number of aircraft to go into service would have been too small.

The P6M was a result of inertia and defense politics. The Navy wanted to have a strategic nuclear role, and before the A3D it did not have a credible carrier aircraft to perform it. The Navy had always had seaplanes (it was, after all, the Navy) and a 'jet' seaplane just seemed logical in 1950.

I will fix the info box problem.