If It Can Fly, It Can Float!!! (4 Viewers)

[Wayne Little]

Yeah..! Nice.

 

[johnbr]

Macchi M.C.72 cutaway

 

[johnbr]

eft side view of a very badly damaged Loening COA-1 (A/C No. 25-231) sitting in front of a hangar.One-half left front view of a partially assembled Loening (Corp) COA-1 in a hangar, circa 1926. Unidentified men surround the aircraft.

 

[johnbr]

Close-up one-quarter front right side view of starboard (right) underwing pontoon of the US Navy Sikorsky XPS-1 (modified Sikorsky S-36B, BuNo A-8005); probably at the Sikorsky Manufacturing Company's aircraft production facility at College Point or inside a hangar at Curtiss Field, Garden City; Long Island, New York, circa 1927.US Navy Sikorsky XPS-1 (modified Sikorsky S-36B, BuNo A-8005) on the ground at Curtiss Field, Garden City, New York, circa 1927. Other aircraft and hangars visible in background.

 

[johnbr]

Loening (Corp) Flying Yacht (Model 23) (r/n N-ABCF) taking off.

 

[Wurger]

 

[johnbr]

Hughes H-4 Hercules

 

[johnbr]

1917 N9 Flying Boat" [written on upper right corner:] "26" The Curtiss N-9 was a floatplane variant of the Curtiss JN-4 "Jenny" military trainer.

 

[johnbr]

April 22d

1914. Prob. America Hull" [Close-up view of unidentified aircraft under construction, possibly the Curtiss Model H "America" (H-1View of aircraft hull, one of the Curtiss Model H America series, seen in one-half right front view.

 

[johnbr]

Curtiss flying boat

 

[johnbr]

Dec. 1st 1914" [Left side view of aircraft hull, one of the Curtiss Model H America series, outside.Front view of hull of aircraft, one of the Curtiss Model H America series.Jan. 2d 1915" [View of partially constructed aircraft hull, one of the Curtiss Model H America series, outside. Unidentified man standing beside aircraft.

 

[johnbr]

View of the cockpit of Curtiss flying boat equipped with Sperry Gyropilot, circa 1915. Gyropilot is shown in foreground.

 

[Wurger]

 

[johnbr]

A design by Ukranian engineer von Gasenko, it had very short wings and was not designed to fly in the conventional sense. Instead, it was to "hop" over the waves much like a sea flea. I run into strange and wierd flying machines but this "takes the cake

 

[johnbr]

aircraft under tests prior to flying the German-South American route.

 

[Wurger]

 

[johnbr]

Emily Id-poster

 

[Wurger]

 

[Aaron Brooks Wolters]

Cool finds guys!!!

 

[Wayne Little]

Some weird and wonderful birds.....