If It Can Fly, It Can Float!!! (1 Viewer)

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buffnut453 said:
The Southampton was a piece of art. The skill required to build the wooden plank-work for the fuselage really is incredible.
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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!
 
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