If It Can Fly, It Can Float!!!

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[SaparotRob]

Now that's a regatta.

 

[herman1rg]

Maldives? Using extreme zoom I think the Aircraft Registration code is 8Q

 

[Snautzer01]

Maldives? Using extreme zoom I think the Aircraft Registration code is 8Q

Q8-TMW Maldives

 

[GTX]

After the end of WW1, the Daily Mail £10,000 prize for the first flight across the Atlantic put contenders in a frenzy. Among the many suffering the fever were Swedish-born aviation pioneer Hugo Sundstedt and the Norwegian ship magnate Christoffer Hannevig. Their entry was designed by the former and financed by the latter who hired the Witteman-Lewis Aircraft Co. to build it. The quite impressive "Sunrise" was a modern-looking four-seat float-equipped cabin biplane powered by a pair of 220hp Hall-Scott L-6 engines in pusher configuration. Completed in early 1919, it was sadly damaged beyond repair in one of its very early test flights.

Source

 

[SaparotRob]

Bummer. Cool looking plane.

 

[stug3]

Loire 210 Fighter (Aeronavale)

 

[Wurger]

 

[stug3]

Dornier Do-X in New York Harbor 1931

 

[Wurger]

 

[swampyankee]

Dornier Do-X in New York Harbor 1931View attachment 718789

It may be able to float if it can fly, but the inverse is far less certain....

 

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[Njaco]

That pic looks photoshopped to me.

 

[GTX]

That pic looks photoshopped to me.

Which one?

 

[Njaco]

The Peter Sty Cat. There is a demarcation line of the water to the right. Two different water tension. The water looks too small in waves and reaction around the plane. If you ever watched those Godzilla movies when he is coming out of the water, you'll know what I mean. I'm gonna say its a model with photoshopped background and people. Just my opinion.......

 

[buffnut453]

Agree. Definitely something not right about that photo. The "sit" of the aircraft on the water is all wrong. The wingtip floats are both in the air and yet the fuselage is supposedly floating.

Take a look at this video showing a Catalina landing. By the time the fuselage is fully supported by the water (rather than by lift from the wing), the floats would also be on the water.


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aInsNHbPK00


Here's another video of a Catalina taxying...again, the "sit" of the aircraft is very different from the PST bird:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRVStY-fG30

 

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[GTX]

That pic looks photoshopped to me.

It is not photoshopped - you can see more here:

PeterStuyvesantTravel_1993

 

[GTX]

Same bird: