Author Topic: Random Floatplanes (Read 10592 times)

GTX_Admin · « **on:** May 29, 2020, 03:26:37 AM »

A thread for some random, and odd, floatplanes...just because.

GTX_Admin · « **Reply #1 on:** May 29, 2020, 03:29:15 AM »

Farman Goliath:

Friedrichshafen FF.60:

elmayerle · « **Reply #2 on:** May 29, 2020, 07:20:30 AM »

You advance power on the lower engines first. I could see advancing power on the upper engines digging the float tips into the water.

Kerick · « **Reply #3 on:** May 29, 2020, 08:41:26 AM »

Must have been a real thrill on a windy day!

ericr · « **Reply #4 on:** May 30, 2020, 01:30:32 AM »

GTX_Admin · « **Reply #5 on:** May 30, 2020, 01:43:56 AM »

And here I was thinking my idea of a Zwillng style WW1 fighter would be novel: I give you the Blackburn TB:

GTX_Admin · « **Reply #6 on:** May 30, 2020, 02:37:14 AM »

Martin B-12:

Kerick · « **Reply #7 on:** May 30, 2020, 02:47:47 AM »

Any idea of the date of those photos? Obviously predates the Me-109 version by quite a bit. Could give the diehard Luft ‘46 crowd a fit.

apophenia · « **Reply #8 on:** May 30, 2020, 02:56:09 AM »

Quote from: elmayerle on May 29, 2020, 07:20:30 AM

You advance power on the lower engines first. I could see advancing power on the upper engines digging the float tips into the water.

Yup. Shades of the Tarrant Tabor

GTX_Admin · « **Reply #9 on:** May 30, 2020, 03:09:01 AM »

Quote from: kerick on May 30, 2020, 02:47:47 AM

Any idea of the date of those photos? Obviously predates the Me-109 version by quite a bit. Could give the diehard Luft ‘46 crowd a fit.

The Blackburn TB?

The first Blackburn TB (1509) was completed in August 1915 and it was joined by another pair (1510) and a Clerget-powered aircraft (1517) for trials at RNAS Isle of Grain during 1916. All were eventually broken up by mid 1917. More details can be found here.

GTX_Admin · « **Reply #10 on:** May 30, 2020, 04:12:49 AM »

Hall XPTBH:

GTX_Admin · « **Reply #11 on:** May 30, 2020, 04:14:58 AM »

Société Provencale de Constructions Aéronautiques (SPCA) 20T3: A wing that looks like it was meant for a battleship...

Click on the images to see bigger versions.

GTX_Admin · « **Reply #12 on:** May 31, 2020, 01:47:17 AM »

Interesting view of a N-3PB Nomad:

GTX_Admin · « **Reply #13 on:** May 31, 2020, 02:21:53 AM »

Gallaudet D-4:

Images can be seen in higher resolution by clicking them.

kitnut617 · « **Reply #14 on:** May 31, 2020, 03:32:31 AM »

Quote from: GTX_Admin on May 31, 2020, 01:47:17 AM

Interesting view of a N-3PB Nomad:

I've got an MPM kit of that, Northrop A-17 variant

GTX_Admin · « **Reply #15 on:** May 31, 2020, 03:39:59 AM »

Indeed:

jcf · « **Reply #16 on:** May 31, 2020, 03:40:59 AM »

Radley-England Waterplane 1.

Power was three 50hp Gnome rotaries driving a single propeller.

GTX_Admin · « **Reply #17 on:** May 31, 2020, 03:44:09 AM »

GTX_Admin · « **Reply #18 on:** May 31, 2020, 03:57:27 AM »

GTX_Admin · « **Reply #19 on:** May 31, 2020, 04:24:51 AM »

Not all Zeppelins were airships...

jcf · « **Reply #20 on:** May 31, 2020, 04:25:06 AM »

The Northrop N-3PB is related to but not a variant of the Gamma 2F/A-17/Douglas 8A.

After leaving Douglas and setting up once again as an independent company, Northrop
was approached by Norway with a request for a coastal patrol floatplane. The company
had already been working on a slightly enlarged, heavier and more powerful aircraft
based on an extensive redesign of the 8A, N-3 was the Northrop model number. This
design was reworked into the floatplane configuration to meet the Norwegian's needs.

Aside from the basic wing little else was the same, the fuselage of the N3PB was very
different from that of the earlier design.