If It Can Fly, It Can Float!!!

[GrauGeist]

Loening M-2 Kitten Prototype on Floats

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Loening M-2 Kitten Prototype without Floats

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The land-based Kitten was the M-2, the Kitten being trialed for the U.S. Navy (float version) was the M-3.

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots!

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Found this today. No photo credit given.

 

[Wurger]

 

[Wayne Little]

Nice find Aaron..

 

[johnbr]

The F4F-3S was inspired by the A6M2-N Rufe and was meant to serve where forward bases were absent. The floats degraded the performance so badly that it was decided not to continue development. A ventral fin was added during the testing to increases stability.

Curtis_sc-1_seahawk

 

[johnbr]

Specifications (H9A1)

Data from Japanese Aircraft of the Pacific War;[1] Warplanes of the Second World War, Volume Five: Flying Boats[4]

General characteristics

Crew: Normal crew of 5 (and up to 3 pupils)
Length: 16.95 m (55 ft 7.3 in)
Wingspan: 24 m (78 ft 9 in)
Height: 5.25 m (17 ft 2¾ in)
Wing area: 63.3 m² (681.353 ft²)
Empty weight: 4,900 kg (10,803 lb)
Loaded weight: 7,000 kg (15,432 lb)
Useful load: 2,100 kg (4,629 lb)
Max. takeoff weight: 7,500 kg (16,535 lb)
Powerplant: 2 × Nakajima Ha-1 Kotobuki 42 nine-cylinder air-cooled radial engines, 529 kW (710 hp) each

Performance

Maximum speed: 317 km/h (197 mph; 171 kt) at 3,000 m (9,845 ft)
Cruise speed: 222 km/h (138 mph; 120 kt) at 1,000m (3,280 ft)
Range: 2,150 km (1,340 mi; 1,160 nmi)
Service ceiling: 6,780 m (22,245 ft)
Rate of climb: 4.5 m/s (876 ft/min)
Wing loading: 110.6 kg/m² (22.6 lb/ft²)
Power/mass: 0.15 kW/kg (0.20 hp/kg; 0.09 hp/lb)

Armament

Guns: 1× flexible, 7.7 mm (.303 in) Type 92 machine gun in bow and dorsal hatches
Bombs: 2× 250 kg (551 lb) bombs or depth-charges

 

[Wurger]

 

[Wayne Little]

COOL.

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shots!

 

[Snautzer01]

Arado Ar95 multi pupose airplane

 

[Wurger]

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

I know, I know......................my jackets right beside Terry's.

 

[norab]

Ah, the rocket boosted Stork Mk. 2

 

[Airframes]

Or Stork HO-Trs..........

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

It flies and floats.

 

[nuuumannn]

Caption for Aaron's picture; "Sh*t! That's the last time I feed from the waters around Fukushima..."

 

[Wayne Little]

Good one Aaron!

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Thanks Wayne.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Ok.............here's a actual aircraft. And one that I have not ever seen before. Kinda interesting. A Blohm and Voss Bv 139.