If It Can Fly, It Can Float!!! (8 Viewers)

fubar57 · Nov 2, 2014

Now that...is a fantastic shot.

Geo

Capt. Vick · Nov 2, 2014

Agreed

GrauGeist · Nov 2, 2014

fubar57 said:
Corrugations say Junkers but I may be wrong.

Several aircraft manufacturers used corrugation around that time period (1920's through 1930's)...Ford tri-motor would be a good example, so would the Tupolev ANT-9.

FLYBOYJ · Nov 2, 2014

GrauGeist · Nov 2, 2014

fubar57 · Nov 2, 2014

Yow. It can fly and she would have no problem floating.

Geo

Njaco · Nov 3, 2014

Nice and streamlined for water sports!

vikingBerserker · Nov 3, 2014

Beautiful, but I wonder which one is more expensive to maintain?

Oh like that maters!!!!! :lol:

Aaron Brooks Wolters · Nov 4, 2014

GrauGeist said:
Several aircraft manufacturers used corrugation around that time period (1920's through 1930's)...Ford tri-motor would be a good example, so would the Tupolev ANT-9.

Junkers sued Ford over that to.

GrauGeist · Nov 4, 2014

Aaron Brooks Wolters said:
Junkers sued Ford over that two.

Yeah, and they were "whizzing up a rope" because it was one of those emerging technologies that all the manufacturers were using.
Matter of fact, one of Tupolev's engineers used to work for Junkers, which led to the ANT-9 design that looks (prepare to be surprised) remarkably similar to the Ju52/3M