If It Can Fly, It Can Float!!!

[michaelmaltby]

"....so were they held as POWs?"

And no doubt, survived the war.

Britain didn't prevail by being nice.

 

[ccheese]

How about an Italian Savoia-Marchetti SM-55X ?

Charles

 

[ccheese]

How about H8K Emily
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I can remember when this very aircraft sat at NAS Norfolk, Va. (minus one engine). Then someone decided to give it back to Japan.

Charles

 

[Capt. Vick]

Yeah. That was a bit of a crime, no?

Charles did you build that 55?

 

[Vic Balshaw]

A couple of pictures of a Fairey FIIID in flight, the second with the British fleet steaming toward Malta.

 

[stona]

Great pictures!

Is it just me or do the floats/pontoons on the Fairey look like they've been put on backwards

Cheers

Steve

 

[ccheese]

Yeah. That was a bit of a crime, no?

Charles did you build that 55?

Good eye, Vick. Yes, that is a model airplane. I have the plans, and have considered building it, but, No, I did not build that one.

Charles

 

[ccheese]

We all know about the OS2U-3 Kingfisher... and the Beechcraft Staggerwing in military garb, on floats.....

Charles

 

[norab]

How about the Sea Dart

 

[ccheese]

I don't know whether the XF2Y-1 Sea Dart flying boat fighter aircraft was the Navy's screw up or Convair's.

And then there was the Glenn L. Martin P6M "Seamaster". Here's a good video of the Seamaster...


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QowTqmxYZ1Q

Unfortunately politics got in the way of a very good jet seaplane. Don't believe me ? The Russian copy did just fine !!

Charles

 

[Njaco]

freakin' great pics everyone!!!!

 

[vikingBerserker]

The H8K Emily is just a beautiful aircraft.

 

[ccheese]

The H8K Emily is just a beautiful aircraft.

It burned really good too.......

Charles

 

[Vic Balshaw]

I think this is a CAMS 55, again in Malta 1932-34.

 

[GrauGeist]

Saw the Ar196 (my all time fav) and I figured I'd add a couple. I'll post a few pix from some other rarely seen aircraft, too...

Ar196A-3 launching from the DKM Prinz Eugen

Ar196 being prepped

He119 V3

LeO H-46 (French - prewar)

 

[Capt. Vick]

Love that last one!

 

[Njaco]

How about some Shorts!


Short Sunderland Mark I, N9029 'V', of No. 230 Squadron RAF, flying over the RAF Aboukir, Egypt, after taking off from Aboukir Bay.

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Short Sunderland Mark I, N9029 'V', of No. 230 Squadron RAF, taking off from Aboukir Bay.

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Short Sunderland Mark Is of No. 10 Squadron RAAF, at their moorings at Mount Batten, Devon.

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Groundcrew performing a routine overhaul on a Short Sunderland Mark I of No. 210 Squadron RAF, moored in Oban Bay, Scotland.

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Short Sunderland Mark III, EJ137 '1-T', of No. 201 Squadron RAF based at Castle Archdale, County Fermanagh, taking off from Lough Erne.

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Short Singapore III K8856 moored at Mount Batten, Plymouth, in May 1937. This aircraft was one of the last of the stately Singapores to be built and was delivered initially to No 228 Squadron.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

They look more like flying boats than shorts Chris.
I'll get my coat.

 

[GrauGeist]

Love that last one!

That LeO H-46 never got far in development: French military policy changes and the onset of WWII derailed it's continued development, but it did look like it had potential.

It also looked sort of like a water bug

 

[Marauderman26]

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