If It Can Fly, It Can Float!!!

[vikingBerserker]

Beautiful one at that.

 

[johnbr]

Start them young.

 

[johnbr]

navy r3c3racer at naval aircraft factory

 

[Wurger]

Macchi M.67 ...

 

[johnbr]

 

[Wurger]

 

[johnbr]

Sopwith Baby British First World War single seat reconnaissance floatplane
The 1914 champion, Sopwith's Tabloid floatplane, was flown to victory by Sopwith test pilot Howard Pixton

 

[Wurger]

 

[johnbr]

Eyes of the Fleet – WW2 American Seaplane Operations

 

[johnbr]

Floatplane Curtiss SOC is lowered onto the port catapult of USS Minneapolis

 

[Wurger]

 

[Capt. Vick]

Are the top two Spitfire pictures real?

 

[Old Wizard]

 

[buffnut453]

Are the top two Spitfire pictures real?

Nope...they're photoshop jobs superimposing a Spit fuselage onto photos of Kingfishers. On the lower pic, the tail of the Spitfire would get dunked every time the aircraft landed.

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Are the top two Spitfire pictures real?

The top one is photo shopped, we've discussed it before.

 

[gumbyk]

Nope...they're photoshop jobs superimposing a Spit fuselage onto photos of Kingfishers. On the lower pic, the tail of the Spitfire would get dunked every time the aircraft landed.

Not to mention that its at full nose-down elevator!

 

[johnbr]

President Roosevelt (blocked from view seated in the rear seat of the lead car) tours PB2Y Coronado production at the Consolidated Aircraft plant at Lindbergh Field, San Diego, California, United States, 25 Sep 1942. ww2dbase

 

[johnbr]

This was the first prototype airplane, bureau number 0453, shown in it's original configuration with a single vertical stabilizer and rudder.

 

[johnbr]

SEAPLANES OF SAN DIEGO BAY By CDR Doug Siegfried, USN (Ret.) | Coronado Times

 

[johnbr]

Douglas RD amphibian