If It Can Fly, It Can Float!!! (7 Viewers)

[Gnomey]

Good one!

 

[buffnut453]

I like the "Service Ceiling (Estimated)" part given that the Ayr refused to get airborne on its first trial and the project was abandoned. The stub wings were supposed to carry bombs which would be underwater when the aircraft was afloat. What could POSSIBLY go wrong with that concept?

The Ayr has to be on the list of "World's Worst Aircraft" IMHO!

 

[johnbr]

Short Sunderland flying boat

 

[johnbr]

 

[Gnomey]

Good stuff!

 

[johnbr]

 

[Graeme]

Bird on the water....

 

[Wurger]

 

[johnbr]

Seaplanes being assembled at Naval Air Station, Brest France, 2 November 1918

 

[johnbr]

Martin PBM-3D Mariner engine maintenance in cold weather

 

[Wurger]

 

[herman1rg]

I love the engine maintenance huts, on wheels!

 

[buffnut453]

Actually they improve the look of the Mariner....they're certainly no less aerodynamic than the rest of the airframe!

 

[johnbr]

Bv-139

 

[johnbr]

 

[johnbr]

bv-222 side

 

[Wurger]

 

[johnbr]

PBY-5A Catalina of the US Navy's 4th Air Wing in the Aleutians after running off the runway's steel matting, 1943-44. Note the aerial depth charges mounted .

 

[johnbr]

Freeing a PBY-5A Catalina from frozen waters in the Aleutian Islands;

 

[Wurger]