Floats equipped jet fighter projects

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This thread only concerns float-equipped jets projects.
Have there ever been any real project to convert first-generation jet fighters into floatplanes ?
A bit like the A6M2-N "Rufe", Spitfire floatplanes & Loire 210.
But with F-80, Panther, Ouragan or Yak-23 ?
Like the fictious "Requin" seaplane of E.P. Jacob.
Hachette-Requin-hydravion-vignette.jpeg F-80 SeaStar.png
 

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F.L. said:
Have there ever been any project to convert first-generation jet fighters into floatplanes ?
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Problem is, floats are heavy & create a lot of drag. The only viable concept is essentially the concept with central float, that could be lifted up to hull - but the mechanism required would add even more weight. So most ideas turned toward flying boats, which are more... weight-rational.
 
In an old issue of Air Trails from just after WW II, there was a sketch of a flying boat fighter that looked like a Grumman Panther with tip floats and a single centerline float with a swept connecting fairing. It looked to take a modest inspiration from a Grumman Duck (but no retractable landing gear).
 
hesham said:
Hi,

I think this topic contains everything about the subject,included Douglas Skyrocket
on floats.
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I agree that this can be a bit redundant.
My question specifically concerns projects to convert land-based aircraft into floatplanes.
 
hesham said:
included Douglas Skyrocket
on floats.
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There is no mention of a Douglas Skyrocket on floats in that thread. One reply makes a size comparison of a Boeing design (proposed flying boat, not a floatplane) with a Douglas F3D Skyknight. The F3D is a landplane.
 
Arjen said:
There is no mention of a Douglas Skyrocket on floats in that thread. One reply makes a size comparison of a Boeing design (proposed flying boat, not a floatplane) with a Douglas F3D Skyknight. The F3D is a landplane.
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In Reply # 49 ?.
 
This thread was moved to this section, as seemingly the only real example already has its own thread, and the other mentioned are either fantasy, or flying boats, so not really on topic here. Though ... if that Folland FO-150 would
https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/blackburn-b-44.2276/follow the design of the Blackburn B.44 , it may
be hard to tell from the first look, if it's a flying boat, or a float plane with the float retracted.
 

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