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It features a cantilever mid-wing, a canard foreplane, dual vertical tails, a single-seat, open cockpit, re-positionable tricycle landing gear and a single engine in pusher configuration. [1] The aircraft's hull is made from fiberglass, while the wing has a Kevlar-epoxy spar with its flying surfaces covered in bonded Mylar. Its 32 ft (9.8 m ...
The Spratt Controlwing 107 was an unorthodox controlwing flying boat designed in the United States in the 1960s and marketed for home building in the 1970s. [2] The aircraft featured a flat, speedboat-like [3] hull with a square bow and with tailfins blended into each side. [4] [5] The fins were angled to form a butterfly tail and included no ...
Flying boat. Centre wing longer than the others. 100 built, used for patrol and ASW bombing rather than the "Alerte" role. [10] Levy-Besson 450-hp: France: 1918: Flying boat [11] Levy-Besson 300-hp: France: c. 1918: Flying boat. Under construction in 1918 [11] Levy-Besson 500-hp: France: c. 1918: Flying boat never completed? [11] Levy-Besson ...
Three Canadair CL-215 amphibious flying boats. The following is a list of seaplanes, which includes floatplanes and flying boats.A seaplane is any airplane that has the capability of landing and taking off from water, while an amphibian is a seaplane which can also operate from land.
It was a large high-wing flying boat with Allison T40 engines driving six-bladed contra-rotating propellers. 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 ...
The 11.15 m (36.6 ft) span wing is supported by a single tube-type kingpost and uses an "A" frame weight-shift control bar. The powerplant is a twin cylinder, liquid-cooled, two-stroke , dual-ignition 64 hp (48 kW) Rotax 582 engine.
A famous WWII flying boat is making a legitimate comeback for modern war. The legendary Catalina is suiting up again—really.
Data from Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1958-59 General characteristics Crew: 2 Capacity: 3 Length: 10.8 m (35 ft 5 in) Wingspan: 13.53 m (44 ft 5 in) Height: 3.83 m (12 ft 7 in) Wing area: 25.1 m 2 (270 sq ft) Aspect ratio: 7.4 Airfoil: NACA 230 series Empty weight: 2,110 kg (4,652 lb) Gross weight: 2,994 kg (6,601 lb) Fuel capacity: 730 L (193 US gal; 161 imp gal) in two hull tanks ...