If It Can Fly, It Can Float!!!

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Looks like a torpedo in a way. I bet it took a gorilla to crank those floats up.

 

[vikingBerserker]

I've never seen that one before though I think the retractable floats is a great idea. I have a pic of a large British Flying boat that had that ability in one of my books somewhere.

 

[GrauGeist]

I've never seen that one before though I think the retractable floats is a great idea. I have a pic of a large British Flying boat that had that ability in one of my books somewhere.

I think it was posted earlier in this thread.

 

[vikingBerserker]

Roc Floatplane

 

[fubar57]

Nice David. That one kinda has everything going against it; big round engine, flat windscreen, turret and floats. All they needed to do was drag a parachute behind them and it would have had little forward speed.

Geo

 

[GrauGeist]

I think it was posted earlier in this thread.

Actually, I just checked and I was mistaken.

Now sure where I saw it at, a while back...but anyway, here it is, the Blackburn B20:

And while I'm at it, I'll toss up another rarity, the Soviet bomber DB-3 torpedo bomber prototype, the DB-3TP:

 

[Wurger]

 

[Njaco]

Lord........

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

And they were picking on your post Chris. Whoa!

 

[vikingBerserker]

That's the one Dave!

I had seen it in British Experimental Combat Aircraft of World War II: Prototypes, Research Aircraft, and Failed Production Designs by Buttler

 

[GrauGeist]

That's the one Dave!

I had seen it in British Experimental Combat Aircraft of World War II: Prototypes, Research Aircraft, and Failed Production Designs by Buttler

That retractable float concept is actually being tried on a few modern aircraft, too. The retractable float technology is now called RAPT (Retractable Amphibious Pontoon Technology)

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shots guys!

 

[nuuumannn]

Nice. The B.20 had merits to it, but powered by two RR Vultures was not going to go anywhere development wise in a hurry. The remains of that one are at the bottom of the sea at Dumbarton, where it was built. The Rolls Royce Heritage Trust at Hillington, Glasgow recovered one of its Vulture engines and has it on display there.

Here's a couple of a rare survivor:

 

[Wurger]

 

[vikingBerserker]

That is just a gorgeous aircraft!

 

[Capt. Vick]

We should never have given that one back.

 

[Wurger]

The RNZAF PBY-5 Catalina code XX-T ....

 

[fubar57]

Type ugly into Google and your never disappointed, the Fokker T.IV...

Geo

 

[Wurger]

It's something for Jan. I can see the number 13.

 

[Capt. Vick]

They don't make them like that anymore...thank God!