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2. Convair R3Y Tradewind - Wikipedia

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   It had a sleek body with a single-step hull and a slender high-lift wing with fixed floats. The Navy ordered two prototypes on 27 May 1946. Designated XP5Y-1, the first aircraft first flew on 18 April 1950 at San Diego. In August the aircraft set a turboprop endurance record of eight hours six minutes.

3. 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 ...

4. Lockwood Drifter - Wikipedia

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   Controls are conventional three-axis, with dual controls and center-mounted control sticks. Lockwood offers optional flaps as part of its STOL kit. The single seat Drifter and XP503 are both stressed for +6/-3g. [2] With its large wing area, the Drifter adapted well to floats and was fitted with several types, including Full Lotus floats. The ...

5. Aichi E16A - Wikipedia

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   The first AM-22, which first got the experimental designation Navy Experimental 16-Shi Reconnaissance Seaplane and later the short designation E16A1, was completed by May 1942 and was a conventional, low-wing monoplane equipped with two floats. It had the unusual (for a seaplane) feature of being equipped with dive brakes, located in the front ...

6. Hipp's Superbirds J-3 Kitten - Wikipedia

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   The wings are built from wood, and both the fuselage and wings are covered with doped aircraft fabric. The engine cowlings are composite. Floats and skis are available. Construction times are estimated as 300 hours from the kit and 800 hours from plans. [1] [4] The wings of all the aircraft in the series are detachable for transport or storage. [2]

7. Amphibious aircraft - Wikipedia

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   These aircraft, and those designed as floatplanes with a single main float under the fuselage centerline (such as the Loening OL and Grumman J2F), require outrigger floats to provide lateral stability so as to avoid dipping a wingtip, which can destroy an aircraft if it happens at speed, or can cause the wingtip to fill with water and sink if ...

8. List of radio-controlled model aircraft kit manufacturers

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   This page was last edited on 6 December 2024, at 01:16 (UTC). ... List of radio-controlled model aircraft kit manufacturers. Add languages ...

9. Flying boat - Wikipedia

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   Short S23 "C" Class or "Empire" flying boat A PBM Mariner takes off in 1942 Dornier X in 1932. A flying boat is a type of seaplane with a hull, allowing it to land on water. [1] It differs from a floatplane in having a fuselage that is purpose-designed for flotation, while floatplanes rely on fuselage-mounted floats for buoyancy.