If It Can Fly, It Can Float!!!

[special ed]

It appears the door was hinged that way so one could enter from the splash rail while in the water.

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shots!

 

[stug3]

Nakajima E8N Type 95 and Heavy Cruiser 'Haguro'

 

[Wurger]

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots!

 

[nuuumannn]

The Southampton was a piece of art. The skill required to build the wooden plank-work for the fuselage really is incredible.

True, a thing of beauty. One of, if not the last surviving complete Linton Hope hull. Hope was a sailor and boat builder who had worked with Supermarine on the hull of the AD (for Air Department) flying boat during the Great War and whose hull characteristics were subsequently applied to a number of British flying boats. They comprised a circular body with separate water-planing chines fitted to the underside. A description of the AD flying boat's hull designed by Hope, which also applies to the Southampton:

"Of the circular hooped frames was a skin formed on a mould from double diagonal mahogany planking laid crosswise, with fabric sandwiched between the layers. The curved ribs in quarter-inch rock elm were closely spaced as were the stiffened stringers. This type of wooden construction stood the test of time until metal hulls were introduced by which time the hydrodynamic problems of planing bottoms had been largely solved."

A rearview shows the original fuselage outline with the water-planing chine looking like an addition, which it essentially was, which also promoted buoyancy.

RAFM 160

Believe it or not, this used to be a house boat!

 

[MiTasol]

Believe it or not, this used to be a house boat!

Which is the only reason it survived

 

[Frog]

Pan Am Sikorsky S40 Clipper, Habana 1934 ; there is also a Consolidated Commodore.
From the estate of PFC Carlo ROTTI - ASN 392707493 - 620th Military Police Escort Guard Company, 9th US Army :

 

[Wurger]

 

[stug3]

Model Airplane News 1137 Sikorsky XPBS-1

 

[MiTasol]

Those exhausts are a great built in permanent speed-brake

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots!

 

[Frog]

Pan Am Sikorsky S42, Habana, picture dated jan. 19, 1939.
From the estate of PFC Carlo ROTTI - ASN 392707493 - 620th Military Police Escort Guard Company, 9th US Army :

 

[Wurger]

 

[stug3]

Dornier Do 24

Dornier Do 22 (Arkadiusz Wrobel)

 

[Wurger]

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots!

 

[GTX]

And who could forget this:

 

[MiTasol]

Tin Otters can do that also tho at lower speeds. The use of asymmetric power and/or one in reverse makes docking so much easier than on the single Otter and Beaver, and presumably other singles and twins with no reverse. Having the power levers up high on the Twin Otter makes fine power control much easier too.

 

[stug3]

Beriev MBR-2

Beriev Be-12 'Chaika'

Beriev Be-12P-200 'Chaika'