If It Can Fly, It Can Float!!!

• Jul 19, 2025

• #2,461

SaparotRob

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I should know this one. It's on the tip of my brain.

 

• Jul 19, 2025

• #2,462

buffnut453

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SaparotRob said:

I should know this one. It's on the tip of my brain.

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Supermarine Southampton

 

• Jul 20, 2025

• #2,463

Gnomey

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Nice shots!

 

• Jul 21, 2025

• #2,464

GTX

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• Jul 21, 2025

• #2,465

GTX

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• Jul 21, 2025

• #2,466

Warspite63

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What is this? It's rather attractive, and very un-RAF ... it should have some more wings .... and struts ... and bracing. Lots of bracing..... And some very exposed gunners.......

 

• Jul 21, 2025

• #2,467

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Warspite63 said:

What is this? It's rather attractive, and very un-RAF ... it should have some more wings .... and struts ... and bracing. Lots of bracing..... And some very exposed gunners.......

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Short Knuckleduster

Short Knuckleduster - Wikipedia

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• Jul 21, 2025

• #2,468

herman1rg

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Great name

 

• Jul 21, 2025

• #2,469

Vic Balshaw

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GTX said:

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EwenS said:

Short Knuckleduster

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Almost stranger than fiction. Steam cooling, interesting concept.

 

• Jul 21, 2025

• #2,470

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I wonder where they stored the coal for the boilers ...............

 

• Jul 21, 2025

• #2,471

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EwenS

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Vic Balshaw said:

Almost stranger than fiction. Steam cooling, interesting concept.

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Also used in the Supermarine Type 224, the precessor of the Spitfire.

Supermarine Type 224 - Wikipedia

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Supermarine Type 224 - Destination's Journey

Photographs of the Supermarine Type 224, a low wing monoplane fighter prototype first flown in 1934 for the Royal Air Force. Only one built

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• Jul 21, 2025

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Gnomey

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Good shots!

 

• Jul 21, 2025

• #2,473

MiTasol

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Aw flaming stralia

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Those radiators have to be a genuine built in headwind.

I guess the designer had not worked out that making a much thicker radiator with far smaller frontal area worked just as well as those monstrosities.

 

• Jul 23, 2025

• #2,474

GTX

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Another photo:

 

• Jul 25, 2025

• #2,475

GTX

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• Jul 25, 2025

• #2,476

herman1rg

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Short Rangoon, although it looks quite long.


I'll get my coat

 

• Jul 26, 2025

• #2,477

tengu1979

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Lublin R-XIII floatplane. Polish WWII recoinassance/liason Aircraft

 

• Jul 29, 2025

• #2,478

Gnomey

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Nice shots!

 

• Jul 30, 2025

• #2,479

herman1rg

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Did the Swiss or the Austrian armed forces ever have flying boats?

 

• Jul 30, 2025

• #2,480

Wurger

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Did the Swiss or the Austrian armed forces ever have flying boats?

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the interwar period
Hopfner HA-11/33 ( the German designation WNF Wn 11 after the Anschluss)

the WW1 era ...
Hansa-Brandenburg CC
Lohner E and L
Oeffag G