If It Can Fly, It Can Float!!!

• Aug 23, 2017

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Beautiful one at that.

 

• Aug 23, 2017

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Start them young.

 

• Aug 23, 2017

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navy r3c3racer at naval aircraft factory

 

• Aug 23, 2017

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Macchi M.67 ...

 

• Aug 23, 2017

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• Aug 23, 2017

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• Aug 23, 2017

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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

 

• Aug 23, 2017

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• Aug 23, 2017

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Eyes of the Fleet – WW2 American Seaplane Operations

 

• Aug 23, 2017

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

 

• Aug 23, 2017

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• Aug 23, 2017

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Are the top two Spitfire pictures real?

 

• Aug 23, 2017

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• Aug 24, 2017

• #1,354

buffnut453

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Capt. Vick said:

Are the top two Spitfire pictures real?

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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.

 

• Aug 24, 2017

• #1,355

Aaron Brooks Wolters

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Capt. Vick said:

Are the top two Spitfire pictures real?

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

 

• Aug 24, 2017

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gumbyk

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buffnut453 said:

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.

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

 

• Aug 24, 2017

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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

 

• Aug 24, 2017

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

 

• Aug 24, 2017

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johnbr

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

 

• Aug 24, 2017

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johnbr

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Douglas RD amphibian