Flying Boats.

Discussion in 'Weapons, Technology & Equipment' started by von Poop, Jun 30, 2020.

  1. ltdan

    ltdan Nietenzähler

    Sic parvis magna: FGP 227,
    ¼ scale flying model built to provide data for the development of the BV 238.
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  2. von Poop

    von Poop Adaministrator Admin

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  3. Alec1935

    Alec1935 Active Member

    Impressive design and it had a clever beaching trolley it taxied into and when connected plane and trolley could taxi up the slipway and out of the water.

     
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  4. redtop

    redtop Well-Known Member

    These pictures taken around mid 1930 of flying boats under construction on the Medway.(Own collection)
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  5. Don Juan

    Don Juan Well-Known Member

    I have long pondered starting a conspiracy theory that flying boats were a hoax.
     
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  6. Alec1935

    Alec1935 Active Member

    Part of Shorts factory and the slipway into the Medway 1946.

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  7. Alec1935

    Alec1935 Active Member

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  8. Alec1935

    Alec1935 Active Member

    Golden Fleece, one of three long range G-Class boats taken onto service with the RAF. Seen at Rochester after being fitted with three four gun Boulton Paul turrets.

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  9. redtop

    redtop Well-Known Member

    A couple more at Short Bros. on Medway

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  10. Ewen Scott

    Ewen Scott Well-Known Member

    Prototype Short Shetland at far right, one of two built. Short Seaford fourth from right. The rest appear to be Sunderlands.
     
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  11. Alec1935

    Alec1935 Active Member

    Martin Mars

     
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  12. Alec1935

    Alec1935 Active Member

    The impressive Convair Tradewind had it's career cut short by the unreliability of it's T40 turboprops.

     
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  13. morrisc8

    morrisc8 Under the Bed

    Sunderland Flying Boat KB-A ? K8- A? Hard to make out the letters. Photo from my collection.
    Keith
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    Close up
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  14. Wg Cdr Luddite

    Wg Cdr Luddite Well-Known Member

    I think KG (204 Sqn) is a possibility.
     
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  15. Orwell1984

    Orwell1984 Senior Member

    I agree.
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    This is a photo of KG-F 204 Squadron taking off for compariosn of lettering.
    The curve at the top of the G looks kind of like the top curve of the second figure in the picture posted.
    At least on my crappy computer and with my old eyes :-P
     
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  16. Dave55

    Dave55 Atlanta, USA

  17. Markyboy

    Markyboy Member

    The book 'Last of the 39ers' about Alfie Fripp, by Sean Feast might be of interest. Billed as a POW book in the main but...................

    Alfie's story begins well before the outbreak of the Second World War. One of Trenchard's 'Brats', Alfie trained as a wireless operator before spending more than five years in various flying boat squadrons in the Far East. He was again one of the last survivors from the days of the mighty Southampton, Scapa and Singapore flying boats that ruled both the skies and the waves, and helped ensure the safety of the Empire.
     
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  18. JimHerriot

    JimHerriot Ready for Anything

    That's a pretty powerful model to be pulling that woody :)

    Cracking photo Dave.

    Kind regards, always,

    Jim.
     
  19. Pat Atkins

    Pat Atkins Well-Known Member

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    That really looks like an 8 to me. However, as far as I can see (well, Google) K8- would make it an aircraft of the Station Flight, RAF Wymeswold, a training base in Leicestershire - which doesn't seem at all likely! Hell of a coincidence if it isn't Orwell1984's 204 Sqdn, surely - yet I think it's an 8. Odd.
     

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  20. Dave55

    Dave55 Atlanta, USA

    Yes, pretty good towing ability!

    Ford literature says that Ford V8 Woody had a top speed of about 75 MPH with standard rear end gearing. That big test rig must have slowed it down a lot.
    I wonder how much lift that model could generate and what its stall speed was.
     
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