If It Can Fly, It Can Float!!!

[Capt. Vick]

Great pictures!

 

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Marlins launched rockets to distract enemy gunners long enough to enable the completion of a bomb or torpedo run.

 

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Marlin pilots were fans of the aircraft's natural stability and the ease of its flight controls. "Trimmed up, you could fly it with a finger," says former Marlin pilot Stew Morton.

 

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[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

View attachment 468058 U. S. Navy Consolidated PBY-5 Catalina on the ground, the tractor that pulled the aircraft out of the water is still attached to it, a uniformed serviceman is in the foreground and another is by the aircraft's front wheel.

Looks like the photo could have been taken at Norfolk N.A.S. Not sure though.

 

[johnbr]

Curtiss Model H "America

 

[johnbr]

Lucky + Fiske Stabilizer." [Curtiss pilot William S. Luckey sits at the controls of a Curtiss Model D Hydro Headless aircraft (tail no. 7), prior to making a test flight at Lake Keuka, Hammondsport, New York, circa late 1914. The aircraft (one-quarter front left side view) has been fitted with an experimental Fisk Stabilizer mounted to the center upper wing. Three men at right hold back the aircraft during engine run-up.

 

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[johnbr]

Aichi E13A Jake floatplane

 

[vikingBerserker]

NICE!