If It Can Fly, It Can Float!!! (5 Viewers)

[johnbr]

\Marcel Besson H-5

 

[johnbr]

 

[johnbr]

FIAT C.29 Bad day
Studio Velocità: FIAT C.29

 

[johnbr]

 

[Capt. Vick]

 

[Wurger]

 

[johnbr]

Converted from a classic Grumman Goose, the experimental Kaman K-16B was conceived as a vertical-takeoff-and-landing (VTOL) test aircraft. The basic fuselage and tail of the amphibian was matted to a new tilting wing (just 50º of tilt) and a pair of GE YT58 turboprop engines. This contraction was created by the "mainly helicopter" company Kaman Aircraft for the US Navy in 1959 as a fast approach to explore the tiltwing VTOL concept.

Spellbinding photo of the K-16B at the NASA Ames huge wind tunnel. It was the nearest it came to a "flight". The K-16B underwent extensive wind tunnel there. Some tethered tests were undertaken, but the aircraft remained unflown by the time the project was cancelled in 1962.

 

[Wurger]

 

[johnbr]

Potez 45
http://histomil.com/viewtopic.php?t=691&start=280

 

[johnbr]

 

[Wurger]

 

[buffnut453]

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\Marcel Besson H-5

Do you think the designer had a strut fetish? i don't think I've ever seen an aircraft with so much bracing and struttery.

 

[fubar57]

Love the Goose shot

 

[johnbr]

Martin P6M SeaMaster ...

 

[johnbr]

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Dramatic Picture of a Pan Am Sikorsky S-40 Flying Boat in FlightView attachment 499451

Anyone notice the helicopter above the S-40?

 

[fubar57]

Good eyes Aaron. I wonder if it's along the lines of this....

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...not this autogyro but something similar

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

I am thinking you are probably correct Geo, and maybe it was part of a photo shoot for the aircraft. Just a guess.

 

[Capt. Vick]

Took this photo at the Cradle of Aviation Museum

 

[Wurger]