If It Can Fly, It Can Float!!!

[Capt. Vick]

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Note the censoring

 

[Graeme]

Note the censoring

When you darken it - the airbrush lines are quite prominent.
The aircraft itself is unaffected.
A sky hater cult?

 

[Gnomey]

Good stuff guys!

 

[fubar57]

Some really cool shots. I did not note the censoring. Thanks for pointing it out Jim

 

[johnbr]

AH-7 on a takeoff run during Navy sea trials. Note the unstaggered wings and tandem seating, which distinguishes AH-7 from AH-10. Not sure which ship that is in the background.
Vintage Air

 

[johnbr]

1929 twin-engine 4-A-1 amphibian. Only three were built, and there is very little information available on them (for instance, at the time of this writing, a Google search came of with a grand total of zero photos of the 4-A-1..he company was established in an old Martin plant in Cleveland, Ohio by president Col. Benjamin Castle. According to Aerofiles, the prototype, NC851K was powered by a pair of 115-hp Cirrus Hermes inline engines, and was severely underpowered and crashed on takeoff, while be flown by Holden C. Richardson, who was the Navy's first engineering test pilot. His presence suggests that Great Lakes was developing the 4-A-1 with hopes of marketing it to the Navy.

To solve the problem, the next aircraft, NC850K (the subject of our two photos), was equipped with two Wright J-6 Whirlwinds; Aerofiles describes these as 300-hp engines, but that would make them the 7-cylinder R-760 or 9-cylinder R-975, and these are clearly only five-cylider engines, which would make them R-540s, in the 165-hp to 175-hp range. So either what is shown in our photos is an interim re-engining, or the 300-hp claim is overstated.

The original company was a victim of the Great Depression, like so many other small aircraft manufacturers. While the 4-A-1 amphibian, for what ever reason, was not built in quantity, Great Lakes built 264 Sport Trainers during the short time they were in business, and subsequent companies using the same name have continued to build more.

 

[johnbr]

Sikorsky Boat

 

[Wurger]

 

[johnbr]

 

[johnbr]

Airspeed AS30 Queen Wasp | BAE Systems | International

 

[Wurger]

 

[johnbr]

Supermarine Air Yacht | BAE Systems | International
Specification
Powerplant Three 525 hp Armstrong Siddeley Panther IIA engines
Span 92 ft 0 in
Maximum Weight 23,348 lb
Capacity Four crew and six passengers
Maximum Speed 117.5 mph
Number built
1 Sole example G-AASE
Survivors
None Destroyed in accident

 

[Wurger]

 

[johnbr]

Supermarine S5 | BAE Systems | International

 

[Wurger]

 

[johnbr]

The company's interest in the fast interceptor had begun with an Air Ministry requirement, N.1B, for a fast manœuvrable single-seat seaplane or flying-boat fighter with a speed of 95 kt at 10,000 ft and a ceiling of at least 20,000 feet. The resultant Baby had been designed by F. J. Hargreaves, who was in charge of the drawing and technical offices at Pemberton Billing and who continued for a little while after the company became "Supermarine". Hargreaves' close liaison with the Admiralty Air Department produced an aircraft with what appeared to be a dangerously small fin and rudder, typical of aircraft drawn up by this design team but the Baby was, in other respects, a more 'in house' response to the ambitious N.1B specification.
R J Mitchell and Supermarine: R .J. Mitchell's Early Modifications (1919 to 1921).

 

[johnbr]

R J Mitchell and Supermarine: What Was R. J. Mitchell's First Design?

 

[johnbr]

Borel biplane early 1900s

 

[johnbr]

Sopwith 860 Biplane early 1900s

 

[johnbr]

Curtiss C-2