If It Can Fly, It Can Float!!!

[Wurger]

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots!

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

An N3N-3 ashore at NAS Jacksonville, Florida, 7 January 1942
Source: usaac-official

 

[Wurger]

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

YC-134A with its Pantobase landing gear.

 

[fubar57]

Neato

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Looks like a skid. Not sure exactly how it works.

 

[herman1rg]

The YC-123E had been another experiment in improving the C-123's ability to operate wherever it might need to, introducing Stroukoff's own Pantobase system: two high-stress skis fitted to the lower fuselage, wingtip mounted floats, along with sealing the fuselage itself. This gave the YC-123E the ability to operate on water, as well as ice and snow, and with the BLC from the previous YC-123D, the new aircraft could effectively be operated from almost any runway surface available, and airstrips of shorter length.

 

[SaparotRob]

What a cool airplane!
Was the original landing gear removed when they sealed the hull (fuselage?)?

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Title: Boeing Model 314A 'Clipper', G-AGCA "Berwick", of BOAC, lands on Lagos Lagoon, Nigeria, for moorings at the West African flying boat terminal at Iquoi c.1945

 

[Wurger]

 

[stug3]

Grumman XJF-1 mock-up
Farmingdale, NY 1933

 

[stug3]

This is some nice box art.
Kawanishi E15K 'Shiun' (Violet Cloud)
'Norm' (Allies)

 

[stug3]

Savoia-Marchetti S.55s, 1927

 

[MiTasol]

entered in error

 

[Graeme]

 

[Escuadrilla Azul]

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Certainly it can float but I'm not sure if it could fly again!

 

[gumbyk]

Certainly it can float but I'm not sure if it could fly again!

I'm just wondering why there are 5 people sitting on a single-seat aircraft?

 

[buffnut453]

Stowaways?

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shots!