If It Can Fly, It Can Float!!! (3 Viewers)

[GTX]

 

[Warspite63]

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'Hey, let's build this incredibly sleek and streamlined aircraft, with unmatched aerodynamic qualities ... and then put floats on it .........'

 

[herman1rg]

Isn't that a Heinkel something?

 

[Escuadrilla Azul]

Isn't that a Heinkel something?

He 119

 

[SaparotRob]

A new one for me. Looks really cool!

'Hey, let's build this incredibly sleek and streamlined aircraft, with unmatched aerodynamic qualities ... and then put floats on it .........'

It is kind of like putting clown shoes on a thoroughbred.

 

[Shortround6]

'Hey, let's build this incredibly sleek and streamlined aircraft, with unmatched aerodynamic qualities ... and then put floats on it .........'

Really ugly floats.

 

[MiTasol]

Those floats look like an overkill - unless they carry lots of fuel and are empty in those photographs.

 

[smutny]

Been doing some digging on Bermuda based Luscombes. Thinking of painting mine like this one (alas without the floats).

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots!

 

[houhou0124]

SUPERMARINE S.6B winner of Schneider Trophy,1931

 

[houhou0124]

Sikorsky S-40

A Sikorsky S-40 comes in for a landing over Pan Am's Dinner Key terminal, which was a popular place to view comings and goings, Although the flying boats are long gone, the building remains in use as Miami City Hall.

 

[houhou0124]

Sikorsky S-38

This early model is seen flying over the Sikorsky Plant at College Point, Long Island, New York.

 

[houhou0124]

macchi-mc72

 

[N4521U]

Those float planes were great looking machines!!!!

 

[houhou0124]

Sikorsky S-42

 

[houhou0124]

Consolidated Commodore

 

[GTX]

 

[houhou0124]

Sikorsky S-39

 

[houhou0124]

Savoia-Marchetti S.55

 

[houhou0124]

Savoia-Marchetti S.65
S 65 intended for the 1929 contest, of which three reached Calshot.