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

[GTX]

 

[Frog]

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15 august 1973 : Dutch Navy Breguet SP-13A Atlantic ditched near Wassenar, for fin troubles and tugged to Den Helder.

 

[MiTasol]

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Why did that make me think of this old song


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSA-yHzkvP8&pp=ygUhc3BsaXNoIHNwbGFzaCBpIHdhcyB0YWtpbmcgYWJiYXRo

 

[Warspite63]

While not intentional, this does prove it could float:

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'Jan, pull up! We are a submarine hunter ... not a submarine.....'

 

[J_P_C]

 

[Admiral Beez]

Just what did you expect from an outfit that gave us the Walrus ... AND the Spitfire?

Mitchell's Shagbat is decidely un-Spitfire like, though perfectly on spec.

 

[Gnomey]

Good shots!

 

[GTX]

 

[GTX]

 

[Gnomey]

Good shot!

 

[Sisu]

An air show demo in Red Lake, Ontario in 2005.

 

[Gnomey]

Nice one!

 

[Frog]

PBN-9-1 22 September 1925, Hawaii (National Archives).

 

[Gnomey]

Good shot!

 

[herman1rg]

PBN-9-1 22 September 1925, Hawaii.
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Close to stall I would say

 

[Bretoal2]

Close to stall I would say

And with wings having a "knife edge", sharp leading edge (which was the usual airfoil design at that time), the stall could be very abrupt without warning.

 

[GTX]

 

[GTX]

 

[Warspite63]

I was gonna comment 'That's one sexy bird' to the PBY pic above ... then I scrolled down to the Do24 ......... glorious!! Truth is, they are two sexy birds ...

 

[Gnomey]

Nice shots!