If It Can Fly, It Can Float!!!

[Wild_Bill_Kelso]

Blackburn TB British Anti-Zeppelin Looks like the idea of He111Z or Bf109Z were not German.

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That's so interesting. Did they actually use these?

 

[GTX]

If it can fly it can float...err maybe not:

F-15 Skids Off the Runway into Canal in Oregon; Pilot OK

An F-15D Eagle with the 173rd Fighter Wing of the Oregon Air National Guard suffered a mishap while landing and ended up in water.

www.airandspaceforces.com

 

[herman1rg]

If it can fly it can float...err maybe not:

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F-15 Skids Off the Runway into Canal in Oregon; Pilot OK

An F-15D Eagle with the 173rd Fighter Wing of the Oregon Air National Guard suffered a mishap while landing and ended up in water.

www.airandspaceforces.com

That's the Navalised version

 

[Wild_Bill_Kelso]

The odd bird in this flock of ideas

Bristol XLRQ-1, a 12-seat amphibious glider of the Bristol Aeronautical Corporation.

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Oh man... amphibious glider... how could that go wrong? Yikes!

 

[Wild_Bill_Kelso]

SNCASE SE.1210

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That's another nice looking one. Rather elegant. Apparently this is a 1/3 size model of what they were ultimately hoping to build.

SNCASE SE-1210 - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I think this is the 1210

 

[Wild_Bill_Kelso]

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Gorgeous pic ... that is a nice bird. Curtiss may have been on their last legs but they did a pretty nice job with this one.

 

[MiTasol]

If it can fly it can float...err maybe not:

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F-15 Skids Off the Runway into Canal in Oregon; Pilot OK

An F-15D Eagle with the 173rd Fighter Wing of the Oregon Air National Guard suffered a mishap while landing and ended up in water.

www.airandspaceforces.com

Pretending it is a tank waiting just below the brow of the hill

 

[SaparotRob]

Pretending it is a tank waiting just below the brow of the hill

Hiding from the tractor until it leaves.

 

[swampyankee]

The pictured airplane is the Breezy (image from Breezy | Aircraft Spruce). It does fly (I've also seen one doing so at Oshkosh), but I suspect "float" is something that it's quite bad at.

 

[special ed]

In the 1970s Col. Jethro E. Culpepper, C.O. of Confederate Air Force (now Commemorative AF), used a Breezy to flour bomb the enemy during the annual airshows. The procedure was a low approach, nose up to a near hover, and throw flour bombs. The bombardier was in the second seat. Missions were always successful due to no radar detection. Does the EAA have the captured Breezy?

 

[Warspite63]

If it can fly it can float...err maybe not:

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F-15 Skids Off the Runway into Canal in Oregon; Pilot OK

An F-15D Eagle with the 173rd Fighter Wing of the Oregon Air National Guard suffered a mishap while landing and ended up in water.

www.airandspaceforces.com

I'v seen eagles scooping fish out of waterways ......... but they had feathers........

 

[swampyankee]

I'v seen eagles scooping fish out of waterways ......... but they had feathers........

...and extensible grappling hooks.

 

[GTX]

That's the Navalised version

Funny you should raise that given this was just released:


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MeIPiGSnhw

But I go off topic...

 

[Wild_Bill_Kelso]

More about P7

Piaggio Pegna P.C.7 | La Coupe Schneider / The Schneider Trophy

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I absolutely love this hydrofoil seaplane, brilliant! It's too bad they never got it fully operational.

 

[Wild_Bill_Kelso]

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Badass! Is that an AR 196?

 

[Wild_Bill_Kelso]

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Widgeon?

 

[MiTasol]

Douglas OA-3 Dolphin

As far as I know all Widgeons left the factory with Ranger L6 engines mounted IN the wing. I know some were converted to Continental IO-470s in the 60s so probably other conversions as well. Photo from Airliners.net

 

[Wild_Bill_Kelso]

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That second one is a BV isn't it?

 

[cammerjeff]

Martain Mars? I don't see 6 engines

 

[swampyankee]

Martain Mars? I don't see 6 engines

One shouldn't be surprised; it had only four.