If It Can Fly, It Can Float!!!

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The second linked photograph of a catapult launch is FAKE. The original photograph, which has been doctored to show a Spitfire with floats is of US Navy Lt Fred Hunter piloting an OS2U-3 Kingfisher of Cruiser Scouting Squadron 1 as it is catapulted off the cruiser USS Detroit in the Aleutians, 1943-44.
If you don't believe me here it is.



It's not even a good fake!



The first liked photograph is a genuine image of MJ892, the prototype F Mk IX floatplane Spitfire taken at Beaumaris in July 1944.

Cheers

Steve
 
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Easy, I KNOW that such an aircraft never existed. It took me about five minutes to find the original 'Kingfisher' photograph as the float arrangement looked rather familiar
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Steve
 
Anyway , someone did some work to fiddle the second image. To be honest it isn't too difficult to do using the Photoshop for instance.
 
Wurger said:
Anyway , someone did some work to fiddle the second image.
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Not very well. He never got rid of the bottom of the original aircraft, that line is nothing like a Spitfire. He also forgot the surround of the original US national marking on the fuselage. Those are just the ones that jumped out at me, I'm sure there are more.
Cheers
Steve
 
Steve beat me to it !
My first reaction when I saw the image was "What the ....", as I knew that marque had not been trial fitted with floats, and if it had been, it certainly wouldn't have been a single, central sponson !
It didn't take long to figure out that the floats were form a Kingfisher or similar, and then the poor montaging was obvious.
Good stuff Steve.
 
Have to say, despite all the issues with the photoshopping, that I rather like the look of the single-float Spit. That said, I can't imagine what such a contraption would have been like to pilot - I imagine the torque from the Griffon would have created all sorts of problems for stability on the water.
 
Airframes said:
And the wing floats would have had the whole caboodle bouncing around like a Hippocroccofrog's t*ts !!
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'Tramping' was a problem with the Spitfire floatplanes that were built. They also had very little directional control when 'taxying' on water and invariably had to be recovered using a boat. Add that to leaky floats, meaning the aircraft had to be dragged out on a slipway to allow the floats to drain, something not necessarily possible on any operational deployment, and its not difficult to see why so few were converted.
Cheers
Steve
 
Another bad photoshop job. There's more crap on that website than in a festival portaloo.

I don't mind a bit of fun, the problem is that people will believe anything, just look at the 'history according to random people' thread.

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Steve
 
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