Flying Boats.

From "AIRCRAFT RECOGNITION" November 1943.

Kind regards, always,

Jim.

 

A more recent appearance of an older type (and by that I don't mean me).

Feel free to answer the questions folks, but please don't get your hopes up as the competition is now closed (by about twenty-five years!).

Kind regards, always,

Jim.

P.S. I am now being subjected to the repeated verbal equivalent of the sock full of sand by my betters;

"Haven't you thrown those old magazines out yet?" (how many times do I have to say "no" before they ease up!).

 

From one of my albums.

The ordnance was stored inside the fuselage in a bomb room and was winched up to racks, under the wing centre section, that could be traversed out through doors on each side of the fuselage above the waterline to the release position.

Depth charges Short Sunderland by nicks posted Apr 10, 2013 at 9:42 PM

 

Wouldn't it be fantastic ? Flying boats compulsory. All airports could be turned over to housing. No more low flying / airport noise problems.

 

So, for the uninitiated, what's the difference between a FLYING BOAT and a SEAPLANE ?

 

A flying boat depends for flotation primarily on a planed, boat-shaped hull which enables it to rest directly on the water. A seaplane has a standard aircraft hull and depends for flotation solely on attached floats/pontoons. The Short Sunderland and Consolidated Coronado were flying boats; the Fairey Seafox and Curtiss Kingfisher were seaplanes.

 

And then there's this monstrosity.


The worst of both worlds. It's a flying plane or a float boat.

It's the The Blackburn B-20

 

Wow. Yet the odd configuration seems to have worked, the problems lying with the ailerons and the engines.

 

The Missing Link

Grumman J2F Duck - Wikipedia

 

I'm not sure I agree. They are all Seaplanes with the sub categories of Flying Boat and Floatplane.

Tim

 

They did make for nice advertising too

 

something similar...once upon a time: Savoia-Marchetti S.66

 

Another Canadian corker, an "amphibian" no less (so does it count?).

Kind regards, always.

Jim.

 

And the kids loved this (and the big kid too)

Kind regards, always,

Jim.

 

Everytime I see your Avatar ltdan it makes me giggle cos I think of this....

 

Yeah - a flying swashbuckler...much appreciated

 

Exactly like me....there's a reason I´d chose him

 

To get back to the OP question of justification. The giant flying boat needs no runway to be constructed (which could be put out of action by bombing).

 

How's about this baby. A jet-powered, strategic nuclear bomber and flying boat !

The Martin Seamaster

And this from Saunders-Roe, the SR.A/1


(I should be working but have spent all morning trolling through Wikipedia looking at Flying boats)