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  2. Grumman G-44 Widgeon - Wikipedia

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    The sinking of a German U-boat by the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) was claimed by one of their larger aircraft on 11 July 1942. The Grumman G-44 Widgeon, armed with two depth charges and crewed by Captain Johnny Haggins and Major Wynant Farr, was scrambled when another CAP patrol radioed that they had encountered an enemy submarine, but were returning to base due to low fuel.

  3. Grumman G-21 Goose - Wikipedia

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    The Grumman G-21 Goose is an amphibious flying boat designed by Grumman to serve as an eight-seat "commuter" aircraft for businessmen in the Long Island area. The Goose was Grumman's first monoplane to fly, its first twin-engined aircraft, and its first aircraft to enter commercial airline service.

  4. Grumman - Wikipedia

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    The Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, later Grumman Aerospace Corporation, was a 20th century American producer of military and civilian aircraft. [2] Founded on December 6, 1929, by Leroy Grumman and his business partners, it merged in 1994 with Northrop Corporation to form Northrop Grumman .

  5. The late Jimmy Buffett's seaplane pilot from Atlantic Beach ...

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    Bill Howell, seen here in 2019, left Atlantic Beach to become a private pilot. After flying seaplanes around the Keys and the Caribbean, he landed a full-time job as a pilot for Jimmy Buffett ...

  6. List of flying boats and floatplanes - Wikipedia

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    A small number of seaplanes have retractable beaching gear, which is not capable of being used for landings and takeoffs, but these remain flying boats or floatplanes and are not amphibians. Many floatplanes, especially those since 1945, can have either conventional floats for operating just from water, or amphibious floats, which have ...

  7. AN/APG-81 - Wikipedia

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    The F-22 radar from Lot 5 aircraft onward is the APG-77(V)1, which draws heavily on APG-81 hardware and software for its advanced air-to-ground capabilities. [5] In August 2005, the APG-81 radar was flown for the first time aboard Northrop Grumman's BAC 1–11 test aircraft. The radar system had accumulated over 300 flight hours by 2010.

  8. Grumman G-132 - Wikipedia

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    It was intended that this would enable the aircraft to land on the open ocean in rough seas and deploy a dipping sonar. The Grumman G-132 was the largest of the three design proposals to be submitted as part of the "Open Ocean Seaplane" requirement, but unlike the Convair XP6Y and Martin P7M SubMaster , it never received a Navy designation.

  9. Ellison-Mahon Gweduck - Wikipedia

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    Data from Jane's All the World's Aircraft 2010/12 General characteristics Crew: Two pilots Capacity: 4 passengers Length: 34 ft 5 in (10.49 m) Wingspan: 48 ft 0 in (14.63 m) floats down Height: 10 ft 6 in (3.20 m) propellers "Y" Wing area: 295.0 sq ft (27.41 m 2) Aspect ratio: 7.8 Airfoil: GA35U-A315 Empty weight: 4,200 lb (1,905 kg) prototype Max takeoff weight: 5,999 lb (2,721 kg) Fuel ...