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| Keywords: P2V Truculent Turtle long distance record flight path 1946.jpg Map showing the flight path of the U S Navy Lockheed P2V-1 Truculent Turtle The third production P2V-1 BuNo 89082 was chosen for a record-setting mission ostensibly to test crew endurance and long-range navigation but also for publicity purposes to display the capabilities of the U S Navy's latest patrol bomber Its nickname was The Turtle which was painted on the aircraft's nose along with a cartoon of a turtle smoking a pipe pedaling a device attached to a propeller However in press releases immediately before the flight the U S Navy referred to it as The Truculent Turtle Loaded with fuel in extra tanks fitted in practically every spare space in the aircraft The Turtle set out from Perth Australia to the United States With a crew of four and a nine-month-old gray kangaroo a gift from Australia for the National Zoo in Washington D C the aircraft set off on 9 September 1946 with a RATO rocket-assisted takeoff 2 1/2 days 55 h 18 min later The Turtle touched down in Columbus Ohio USA 18 083 6 km from its starting point It was the longest un-refueled flight made to that point This would stand as the absolute unrefueled distance record until 1962 and would remain as a piston-engined record until 1986 http //www navy mil/ah_online/department_arch html U S Navy All Hands magazine http //www navy mil/ah_online/archpdf/ah194611 pdf November 1946 p 36 1946 U S Navy PD-USGov-Military-Navy Aviation records Truculent Turtle | ||||
