Nice shots!
If It Can Fly, It Can Float!!!
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An absolute thing of beauty...
johnbr
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E/bay uk Dornier Wasser D Do-18 model Do-202
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fubar57
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Blocky
johnbr
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A Kawanishi prototype patrol bomber takes off over the water on a test flight in December of 1940.
johnbr
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Luftwaffe Seaplane Landing near Steamer Ship
Martin Malta
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Sunderland at Mistra bay Malta after Me 109F ' s attacked it for the second day...
Sunderland at Kalafrana seaplane base Malta after an attack by Me 109F's
Sunderland at Kalafrana seaplane base Malta after an attack by Me 109F's
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johnbr
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Good shots!
MIflyer
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fubar57
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Graceful little kite
One can only imagine what happened to the useful load and cruise on 75HP. (And no, I'm not pickin' on the little ERCO. I like them.)
MIflyer
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Good looking airplane. But they only built one. They found the two control approach did not work well for floatplanes - you really need rudder control to maneuver on the water. Aside from that, pulling up to a dock must have been a nightmare with that low wing. As one pilot with some seaplane experience put it, "You don't have to be that great of a pilot to fly a seaplane, but you have to be one hell of a sailor!"
The final kicker was when the prototype came apart during a test dive. The pilot bailed out successfully, but that was the end of the concept.
Note how they have those panel riveted below the prop and just above the bottom of the nosebowl. Normally the carb air intake is at the bottom and there is a hole under the prop to put air over the oil tank to help cooling (or to handle an oil cooler if so equipped). But they must have had trouble with water spray getting into the intake and thus covered those two holes and added one in the middle for the carb air.
The final kicker was when the prototype came apart during a test dive. The pilot bailed out successfully, but that was the end of the concept.
Note how they have those panel riveted below the prop and just above the bottom of the nosebowl. Normally the carb air intake is at the bottom and there is a hole under the prop to put air over the oil tank to help cooling (or to handle an oil cooler if so equipped). But they must have had trouble with water spray getting into the intake and thus covered those two holes and added one in the middle for the carb air.
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No one does it like the Italians - aircraft in the aviation museum on the shore of Lake Bracchiano.
Austro-Hungarian Lohner.
Lohner
Savoia Marchetti S.56.
S.56A
Fiat C-29.
C-29
Schneider Trophy winning Macchi M.39.
M.39 ii
Macchi M.67.
M.67
World speed record class holder Macchi MC.72.
MC.72 i
Ship based observation IMAM Ro.43.
Ro.43
CANT Z.506 Airone.
Z.506 iii
Yes, this place blew me away.
Austro-Hungarian Lohner.
Savoia Marchetti S.56.
Fiat C-29.
Schneider Trophy winning Macchi M.39.
Macchi M.67.
World speed record class holder Macchi MC.72.
Ship based observation IMAM Ro.43.
CANT Z.506 Airone.
Yes, this place blew me away.
You had us going man! You were winning today's thread! Then? Z.506.
And... you've lost me. It is a Z.506.
It was the aesthetics and beauty of all the Italian aircraft until......
