Flying boats thread
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Because it's cool as fuck
Martin P6M SeaMaster
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Convair R3Y Tradewind
>>29847858
My planefu
Macchi M.7
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Aichi E11A
>>29847903
Here the pic
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Loire 130
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Saunders-Roe SR.A/1
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Saro Cloud
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Short Mayo Composite
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Kawanishi H8K (aboard the seaplane tender Akitsushima)
>>29848036
Potez 452
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Loire 102
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Bonus
(Inspired by Macchi M.33)
>>29848095
Curtiss NC-4
>>29847858
Damn, that's gorgeous
>>29847873
Do you dream of hunting seaplane pirates in the Adriatic?
>>29847855
I've got a 10 year plan in place right now that should allow me to accrue 5-8 million in assets by the end, depending on how well I do with it.
If at the end of the 10 years I liquidated everything, would it be enough to fulfill my dream of buying a large flying boat and living out the rest of my days on it as a world traveling air pirate?
Or do I have to push the timeline back even farther?
>>29848430
Oh fuck yes
I'm hard right now
Didnt fly besides the short 1 mile run up but pretty interesting
>>29848476
It's one of my wet dreams.
I assume if you have some skills in sheet metal working or wood-working you can buy an almost-wrecked one and repair it. It would be the project of a life.
This thread is too talespin for my tastes. Needs more nightmare fuel.
>>29848022
what the actual fuck is going on in this picture?
why have they combined the planes?
>>29848476
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>>29848636
Supermarine Stranrae
>>29848571
I don't have any serious airframe experience, but I'm in the piloting industry. Not currently cross certified to fixed wing, but it's a pretty easy transition from rotorcraft. I just want to retire relatively young and spend my days checking out remote pacific islands and fishing off the wing of my seaplane.
>>29848632
>Short Brothers had built the Empire flying boats which were capable of operating long range routes across the British Empire but could only attempt the trans-Atlantic route by replacing passenger and mail-carrying space with extra fuel.
>It was known that aircraft could maintain flight with a greater load than is possible to take off with; Major Robert H. Mayo, Technical General Manager at Imperial Airways proposed mounting a small, long-range seaplane on top of a larger carrier aircraft, using the combined power of both to bring the smaller aircraft to operational height, at which time the two aircraft would separate, the carrier aircraft returning to base while the other flew on to its destination.
>>29848653
CANT 25
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>>29848558
>TFW it's 70 years old and still has a wingspan larger than a brand new model 747 or A380
>>29848689
Neat!
Toot toot coming through.
>>29849858
>PBY Catlina
Search and Rescue and reconnaissance plane
>>29848596
As you wish.
Still my favorite
https://youtu.be/axpsH-2X8CM
mfw they retired it for the DC-10s
>>29850502
it even has 1 guy sitting on top of each of the "engine modules"
I wonder if they are the ones who operate them seperately
Suddenly a wild DO-X makes an appearance.
