If It Can Fly, It Can Float!!!

[Wurger]

That's the Burgess-Dunne BD-6 flying wing of 1916.

the source: The Birth of the American Flying Wing

 

[ThomasP]

Interesting aircraft. The history of Burgess and Dunne makes me wonder what could have been if they had more backing and the development of the concept had continued through WWII. Maybe if they had gotten together with DeHavilland and/or Barnes Wallace?

"The Most Talented Aviation Pioneer You've Never Heard of"

 

[Gastounet]

Thank you, Wurger, I never heard about that.

 

[Wurger]

Thank you, Wurger, I never heard about that.

My pleasure.

 

[SaparotRob]

Thanks, ThomasP. Very informative link.

 

[MiTasol]

Thanks Thomas
I knew a little about the swept wing aircraft he designed but none of the rest. Very interesting

 

[Gnomey]

Good stuff!

 

[Vic Balshaw]

That's the Burgess-Dunne BD-6 flying wing of 1916.

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the source: The Birth of the American Flying Wing

Did it ever get off the water and I don't mean onto the beach.

 

[ThomasP]

According to the history, the design was sound and it flew quite well, but at 70 mph it was considered too slow for military purposes.

 

[macharvard]

According to the history, the design was sound and it flew quite well, but at 70 mph it was considered too slow for military purposes.

Canada's first military aircraft was a Burgess-Dunne flying wing. https://www.canada.ca/en/air-force/services/aircraft/burgess-dunne.html

 

[SaparotRob]

Deja-vu.

 

[Escuadrilla Azul]

A republican Vickers Vildebeest during the spanish civil war with a curious scales camo including the spinner and prop, 1938.

 

[MiTasol]

Interesting - I never knew they fitted V engines to Beest's
According to wiki this must be the Type 216 Prototype Series VII modified with an Hispano-Suiza 12Lbr engine and flown with floats.

Apparently the Spanish used and licence built 26 of them

 

[Wurger]

 

[Escuadrilla Azul]

Interesting - I never knew they fitted V engines to Beest's
According to wiki this must be the Type 216 Prototype Series VII modified with an Hispano-Suiza 12Lbr engine and flown with floats.

Apparently the Spanish used and licence built 26 of them
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Two were seaplanes (serials T-17 & T-18) and both were lost before 1938. After that, another (unknown serial) was equiped with the floats of T-17 and must be the one in the photo.

 

[Escuadrilla Azul]

A Grumman Albatros of the Ejército del Aire (spanish air force) over the training ship Juan Sebastián Elcano.

 

[Escuadrilla Azul]

This one could be either here or in the Cold War thread.

A Grumman Albatros with its substitute in the Ejército del Aire, a P-3A.

 

[Escuadrilla Azul]

Very nice & clear side view of a Savoia S.62 of the Segunda Escuadrilla de Reconocimiento of the Aviación Naval (2nd Recon. Sq. of the naval aviation). December 1935 in front of one of the hangars in San Javier ANS, Murcia (southeastern Spain). Six months before the civil war.

 

[SaparotRob]

A graceful little plane. Sweet!

 

[GTX]

Alexander de Seversky with the NX2106 which set his company in motion. This advanced amphibian designed by Alexander Kartveli captured a few world speed records from 1933 to 1935, with de Seversky at the controls.