Wild_Bill_Kelso
Senior Master Sergeant
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That's so interesting. Did they actually use these?
If It Can Fly, It Can Float!!! (1 Viewer)
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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.
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That's the Navalised versionIf 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.
Wild_Bill_Kelso
Senior Master Sergeant
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Oh man... amphibious glider... how could that go wrong? Yikes!
Wild_Bill_Kelso
Senior Master Sergeant
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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
I think this is the 1210
Wild_Bill_Kelso
Senior Master Sergeant
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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
1st Lieutenant
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.
Pretending it is a tank waiting just below the brow of the hill
SaparotRob
Unter Gemeine Geschwader Murmeltier XIII
Hiding from the tractor until it leaves.
swampyankee
Chief Master Sergeant
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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.
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special ed
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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
Senior Airman
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I'v seen eagles scooping fish out of waterways ......... but they had feathers........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.
swampyankee
Chief Master Sergeant
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- Jun 25, 2013
...and extensible grappling hooks.
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
Senior Master Sergeant
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I absolutely love this hydrofoil seaplane, brilliant! It's too bad they never got it fully operational.
Wild_Bill_Kelso
Senior Master Sergeant
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Badass! Is that an AR 196?
Wild_Bill_Kelso
Senior Master Sergeant
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Widgeon?
MiTasol
1st Lieutenant
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
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
Senior Master Sergeant
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That second one is a BV isn't it?
cammerjeff
Staff Sergeant
Martain Mars? I don't see 6 engines
swampyankee
Chief Master Sergeant
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One shouldn't be surprised; it had only four.
