If It Can Fly, It Can Float!!!

[johnbr]

Supermarine Southampton Mk.I N9898 under Construction 21 Feb 1925
Photograph of Supermarine Southampton Mk.I N9898 under Construction 21 Feb 1925 | eBay

 

[Wurger]

 

[buffnut453]

The Southampton was a piece of art. The skill required to build the wooden plank-work for the fuselage really is incredible. Here's a couple of pics of the sole surviving example at the RAF Museum, Hendon - it's just a thing of beauty:

 

[SaparotRob]

That airplane truly is beautiful. I love wooden hulls. If the the Good Lord wanted us to have fiberglass boats He would've given us plastic trees.

 

[SaparotRob]

Seriously, that is a work of art.

 

[Escuadrilla Azul]

Seriously, that is a work of art.

Totally agree, just give the funny rating due the plastic trees, no offence intended

 

[Snautzer01]

That airplane truly is beautiful. I love wooden hulls. If the the Good Lord wanted us to have fiberglass boats He would've given us plastic trees.

He (she) did

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Beautiful plane.

For some reason I don't remember seeing it the two times I went to Hendon.

 

[Wurger]

 

[SaparotRob]

Beautiful plane.

For some reason I don't remember seeing it the two times I went to Hendon.

Did you look behind the plastic tree?

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Did you look behind the plastic tree?

Heh...

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots!

 

[stug3]

North American O-47A

 

[stug3]

Klemm WL 35

Klemm KL 35 B

 

[Wurger]

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots!

 

[stug3]

Rogožarski SIM-XIV-H (Yugoslav)

 

[stug3]

Some examples of "Air Yachts" of the 1920s-30s; luxuriously appointed flying boats marketed to the wealthy.

Loening Model 23 S-1 Flying Yacht (1921)

Fokker F-11 (1928)

Sikorsky S-38 (1928)

Supermarine Air Yacht (1930)

Sikorsky S-43 'Baby Clipper' (1935)

 

[SaparotRob]

I want the Baby Clipper.

 

[MiTasol]

Interesting that the first one (Loening Model 23 S-1 Flying Yacht) has ejector doors (rear hinged so that if you turn the handle while in flight it will drag/throw you out)