Seaplanes!

Saunders Row SR.A/1

What was that tv show where the main character had a sea plane?
Tales of the gold monkey…..

And
Spruce (Not for log Burner)

Tales of the Golden monkey?
Sat evening on the sofa with my Dad.
Worthers anyone?

Tales of the Gold Monkey.

Aren’t those flying boats?*
*I think think flying boats use the fuselage as a hull, and sea planes use floats on the wings

Ekranoplan in 5….

4….

3….

Ooooh! He changed his answer. 😆

Sorry, sneaky edit..

Talespin

*Pedant*
Saunders Roe.
*Pedant*

Princess.

Don’t know what this plane is, but it’s from Calshot (near me) and part of the Schneider trophy.

I love a PBY-5, me…

Coming in over Weston-super-Mare.

Don’t know what this plane is, but it’s from Calshot (near me) and part of the Schneider trophy.

😯
That’s a Supermarine S6-B, Schneider Trophy winner, and an extraordinarily beautiful aircraft!
Designed by Mitchell, it led directly to the Spitfire:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermarine_S.6B

Science Museum, London.

Coincidentally, i was doing a little research earlier on about the Short Sunderland, it’s history and why the RAF don’t use flying boats any more…

If I could own and fly my own plane, I’d love one of these:

Grumman G-21 Goose
Proper amphibious aircraft so you don’t need your own private lake to land it on.

Those were the days…

Boeing 314 Clipper

Maia and Mercury

Short Empire flying boat with Short Mercury floatplane
http://www.acmp.com/blog/short-transcontinental-mail-composite-aircraft.html

Macchi MC-72

Lean, and very deadly, one crashed, one blew up in mid air, the surviving aircraft, and pilot, eventually set an absolute speed record for a piston-engined seaplane that’s never been beaten, at 441mph.
From the sublime, etc…

Dornier DO-X
Not a winner in the elegant good looks competition.

Mine when I win the lottery

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I used to love ‘Tales of the Gold Monkey’ when I was a kid. The plane was a Grunman Goose:

I agree with CountZero, great looking plane

Spent many an hour on the beach at Puerto Pollenca watching one of these practicing….

Dornier Do18. Flying Boat, strictly.

Dornier Seastar, though don’t think it entered production. Note the push-pull family resemblance to the above.

Widgeon. Amphibian, strictly.

Savoia Marchetti S55

and its big sister the S66

What not to do to a Spitfire

^^^ D-ICKS

This is how to land one…

@bikebouy you never cease to amaze me 8) As pointed out its the predecessor of the Spitfire, if you google up the Schneider Trophy they used to run it up/down the Solent. FWIW I posted it as my favourite plane in one of the other threads.

Old school friend of mine’s Dad used to fly seaplanes for the RAF, the last of them I recall. He had some fantastic pictures around the house.

^^^ D-ICKS

#muttleysnigger
http://gifrific.com/muttley-laughing/
Ok, how do you post a gif and get it to work?

Been flown around a bit in floatplanes back in the day. Mainly up and down the Newfoundland and Labrador coast. Usually DH Beavers. Lovely landings. Love them.

Landing in them on the sea when frozen on skis is not so good. 😯

Landing in them on the sea when frozen on skis is not so good.

A bit rough?

CZ. Yes.. The sea doesn’t freeze flat… Set off our ELT on one landing and got calls from search and rescue.

CZ. Yes.. The sea doesn’t freeze flat… Set off our ELT on one landing and got calls from search and rescue.

Oops! 😳

That SB6…

..Rolls Royce built and experimental engine for it, a whopping 36 litres and designed to output a massive amount of power.

Rolls Royce shelved it as too radical. They built the Merlin, which powered the Hurricane, Lancaster, Mosquito, early Spitfire and the P-51 Mustang.

Later, they dusted the racing engine off, engineered it for reliable running and fitted it to Spitfire prototypes in the early 1940s. It became the Griffon and by the end of the war was outputting a staggering 2,250hp reliably in production form in the Spitfire Mk21. For comparison the early Spitfire 1a and Hurricane 1 output around 990hp.

The Griffon finally left RAF service in 1990 when the Shackleton (itself a development of the Avro Lancaster/Lincoln line) was retired.

The Seabee from The Man with the Golden Gun, would love to fly around the Thai islands exploring the area.

Flew for an hour in a amphibious floatplane for my PPL re validation flight a few years back .

180 np two seat Husky (super cub on steroids)

http://www.seabee.info/images/seaplanes/G-WATR-03-740.jpg

Brilliant fun, especially the skating alternating on each float before taking off and looking back at the crescent shaped ripples we had just made along the loch !

Cool story

CountZero, post it as an image: