If It Can Fly, It Can Float!!!

• Apr 22, 2014

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Sweet!

 

• Apr 23, 2014

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new one to me...

 

• Apr 23, 2014

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Bristol XLRQ-1 Amphibian Glider...



Geo

 

• Apr 23, 2014

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First time I've ever seen boat/glider. Interesting.

 

• Apr 24, 2014

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Are they the same? I see a star on the Bristol.

 

• Apr 24, 2014

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They are similar but not the same I think. Interesting shots though!

 

• Apr 24, 2014

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Fla-eee-dah!

Friedrichshafen FF.60 experimental floatplane.

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• Apr 24, 2014

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I wonder how the top engines impacted take offs? Cool looking plane though.

 

• Apr 25, 2014

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To look at that, and then look at what we have today and wonder how we ever got to this point. Amazing.

 

• Apr 25, 2014

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The learning curve was a steep one there for a while...

 

• Apr 26, 2014

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Martin PBM Mariner, one of my favourites.

 

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• Apr 26, 2014

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Lublin R-VIII bis.

 

• Apr 26, 2014

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I love the flying boats.

 

• Apr 26, 2014

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good stuff Guys..

 

• Apr 26, 2014

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Is that Polish float plane sinking? You can almost see nothing of the pontoons. And that is without people that I can see. Would love to hear the story behind that.

 

• Apr 27, 2014

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Sinking .... not yet. The Lublin R-VIII HYDRO no.803 floatplane was damaged on the 1st September 1939 at the naval air station in Puck. Then she was moved near Chałupy village at the Hel peninsula. I think the pic was taken at that moment. On the 8th September 1939 she was destroyed with the R-VIII no.802 together during a German air raid.

 

• Apr 27, 2014

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Fla-eee-dah!

 

• Apr 27, 2014

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• Apr 27, 2014

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Good shot of that Curtiss!

Something that might be missed by the casual observer, but a seaplane (floatplane) pilot not only had to land thier aircraft in the rolling water of the sea, but had to do so in the wake of a moving ship AND guide the aircraft onto the recovery slip.

In my mind, it puts these pilots above carrier rated pilots

 

• Apr 27, 2014

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Thanks for that bit of schooling Dave. I did not know this.