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Originally Posted by Shadow Master
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Roughness (meaning a surface that is like a washboard but otherwise basically flat/level) would mean what as a workaround?
Large swells would typically accompany bad weather (when the seaplanes would either be deployed elsewhere or be ashore) so no real effort is really needed to adjust for this as the idea isn't to try to make the aircraft able to operate in extremely bad weather, but just to be able to carry out operations in calm and mild weather.....
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1) Weather prediction at that time was significantly worse than it is today. German weather prediction for the Atlantic was much worse than the allies.
2) While heavy swells typically a company bad weather they also occur in the absence of said bad weather. I'm not at all sure that the Kondor could survive take offs and landings in typical North Atlantic swells. Especially repeated ones and given its weak frame.