The Grumman G-44 Widgeon is a small, five-person, twin-engine amphibious aircraft.[1] It was designated J4F by the United States Navy and Coast Guard and OA-14 by the United States Army Air Corps and United States Army Air Forces.
The Widgeon was originally designed for the civil market. It is smaller but otherwise similar to Grumman's earlier G-21 Goose, and was produced from 1941 to 1955. The aircraft was used during World War II as a small patrol and utility machine by the United States Navy, US Coast Guard and by the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm.
The first prototype flew in 1940, and the first production aircraft went to the United States Navy as an anti-submarine aircraft. In total, 276 were built by Grumman, including 176 for the military. During World War II, they served with the US Navy, Coast Guard, Civil Air Patrol and Army Air Force, as well as with the British Royal Navy, who gave it the service name Gosling.
This whole series of drawings are wrong in so many ways.
1, All of these drawings are based on a single side profile, the fuselage of the J4F / G-44 was flush with the wing, it wasn't higher than the wing.
That error came from the photo of the crashed Israeli G-44A where the flaps were down and it gave the appearance of the fuselage roof being higher than the wing.
2, The hull is too deep in front.
3, The tail wheel is too large.
4, The windshield is too small.
5, The floats are the wrong shape.
There 's more, but you get the idea.
This is what the profile should look like.
