seaplane

Unknown Italian seaplane, maybe identified as I.G.R.

So there is this large, unnamed flying boat project studied by Breguet in 1953 that I came across. It is designated simply as "65 ton seaplane for exploration and reconnaissance", so I assume it never got far. Was to use the same wings as the Breguet 763, but this was later changed. As the name...

Everyone knows about the Dormier P.85 aircraft project, a Do17Z with, among other differences, floats and straight wings. It wasn`t included in the attached table, taken from a BA/MA file on the contest for a seaplane bomber, known as "Kampfflugzeug See" or as See-Stuka, as may see. There were...

The Samara region of Russia is undoubtedly the home of seaplane aviation in Russia. Several companies have developed flying boats, floatplanes and amphibians in that area over the past thirty years, all of them being kind of spiritual descendants of Shavrov's 1930s designs. One designer in...

I am looking for good references discussing open-ocean seaplanes. I have already scoured this site, DTIC, and the other usual sources, of course. Is there a book on the ShinMaywa US-1/US-2 you would recommend? Bear in mind, sadly i do not read Japanese. I have also thought about inquiring with...

Dornier Seastar all-composite amphibian evolved from 1984, more then 3 decades. For certain years, Dornier teamed Chinese company, Wuxi for further developement. Official site. Seastar initially offered as aircraft, that could be used in many application - from passenger and VIP-transportation...

Something different for today ... a collaborative project between Grumman and Shin Meiwa in Japan. Note wing engines can tilt up a few degrees (it's described on another page). Also, there is heavy reliance on active boundary layer control via twin turbines behind the rear pressure bulkhead...

Hello! Did you have any drawing of this variant?

I spotted the photographs below in the 'Seaplane Jetfighters' thread and was wondering if anyone has any more information on the submarine design shown below. The pictures depict a 10th scale model of a 'Fleet Submarine' which was to be used to suport seaplane combat aircraft. The testing took...

Hi, here is some V/STOL and VATOL aircraft concepts, designed at the David W. Taylor Naval Ship Research and Development Center. NSRDC-79/O74 P PREDICTION OF DRAG COEFFICIENTS OF A SUPERSONIC V/STOL CONFIGURATION WITH VARIOUS STORE ARRANGEMENTS* Tsze C. Tai , Thomas H. Boyd , and Richard E...

Here are some I be no one has ever seen.... Maker unknown and any insight would be great. Found at a local hobby shop in a box, long forgotten. Owner of the shop says they came from the collection of a Northrop Engineer, but these are most decidedly not from the Northrop model shop. Note the...

The July 1946 issue of Air Trails magazine has an article on large-scale flying models used for aerodynamic research. There are several images of a four-engine flying boat -- obviously if CVAC went to the expense of doing this, then it expected to build something. The legend on the nose reads...

Found on internet: Aerofiles 8, Putnam 12, worldsmilitar site 28 serialnumbers, but not all buit. My summary, for what it is worth: :'( 44316/44317 2 prototypes as XOSE-1 64569/64576 8 production as XOSE-1 or OSE-1 (were all built?) 75208/75213 6 production as XOSE-1 or OSE-1 (were all...

Hi! Kawanishi E10K. It was the furst Kawanishi designed flying boat as 9-shi night reconnaissance seaplane. But not selected by the IJN. One prototype was converted into transport version as 94-shiki transport flying boat which had the gear for land transportation. Source:ENCYCLOPEDIA OF...

Shin Meiwa developed the Amphibious Air Transport System during the late 1980s/early 1990s and was looking for partners to complete development as late as 1999. The aircraft was a 30/50-seat airliner powered by two wing-mounted turbofans with upper surface blowing. Range would be between 500nm...

Hi, here is an ASW V/STOL seaplane project,from DTIC report,but I just ask if that aircraft related to General Dynamics or not,that is because this article in the report; 11. Dewey, D. B. Full-Scale Demonstration of the Vertical Float Sea-Stabilization Concept. San Diego, Oct 1963. 25 p...

As stated in the companion thread on the Grumman G-132 design, "The 1955 CNO OR AS-040502 required an ASW flying boat with the ability to alight in the open sea, up to sea state 5, in order to operate a sophisticated dunking sonar, AN/ASQ6." This resulted in the "Open Ocean Seaplane" request for...

Source: THE POTENTIAL EFFECT OF MATURING TECHNOLOGY UPON FUTURE SEAPLANES by Mr. August Bellanca & Ms. Carey Matthews, April 2005

Are there any land version of He-115 since I found land and sea version of He-119 to both

Model of deployment concept of A-90 Orlyonok atop Antonov An-225 Mriya for rapid response search and rescue to disasters at sea or the arctic. Description: Source: http://www.ussr-airspace.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=28_39_49&products_id=1321