If It Can Fly, It Can Float!!!

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




the source: The Birth of the American Flying Wing

 

• Sep 11, 2023

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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?

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• Sep 11, 2023

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Thank you, Wurger, I never heard about that.

 

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Gastounet said:

Thank you, Wurger, I never heard about that.

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My pleasure.

 

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Thanks, ThomasP. Very informative link.

 

• Sep 11, 2023

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Aw flaming stralia

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

 

• Sep 17, 2023

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Good stuff!

 

• Sep 18, 2023

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Wurger said:

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

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the source: The Birth of the American Flying Wing

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

 

• Sep 18, 2023

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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.

 

• Sep 18, 2023

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ThomasP said:

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.

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

 

• Sep 18, 2023

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Deja-vu.

 

• Dec 3, 2023

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

 

• Dec 3, 2023

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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

 

• Dec 3, 2023

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MiTasol said:

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.

 

• Dec 7, 2023

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

 

• Dec 7, 2023

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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.

 

• Dec 7, 2023

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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.

 

• Dec 7, 2023

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A graceful little plane. Sweet!

 

• Dec 15, 2023

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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.