Floaty Planes?

kitnut617 · January 28, 2009, 09:55:55 AM

Quote from: joncarrfarrelly on January 28, 2009, 07:23:22 AM

...or the CANT Z.511, the largest float seaplane (Span: 131' 2.75"; Length: 93' 6"; Weight[loaded]:73,987 lbs):

Jon

Nice find Jon, that sort of vindicates my reasoning of the Avro Nottingham idea (span 127'-6", length 93'-0")

Mossie · January 28, 2009, 01:46:53 PM

Thought I'd back up the Condor idea with a quick & dirty profile:

Logan Hartke · January 28, 2009, 03:46:33 PM

Boy, that looks good, and very "right". I can guess why they never did that, though. The Fw 200 was not very structurally sound.

Logan Hartke

Mossie · January 29, 2009, 01:56:54 AM

Yeah, pretty much a fantasy, they broke plenty without the stress of landing it on water! You'd have to work a little into the back history to the effect that they fixed the structural problems, which in reality they tried to but never quite managed.

Weaver · January 29, 2009, 05:34:38 AM

IIRC, the one that got into a hippofight (well you can't call it a dogfight, can you?) with a Sunderland over the Bay of Biscay flew off apparently intact, but broke it's back in a hard landing due to unseen damage - the Sunderland crew didn't find out that they'd actualy killed it until after the war.

Tophe · February 11, 2009, 08:12:32 PM

Quote from: Spellbinder99 on October 29, 2008, 01:59:07 PM
One of my favourite things is float adapted conversions of landplanes as per the Spitfire floatplane I am currently doing and the Zero floatplane. I realise over the years that various WIF conversions have been mooted here but I was wondering whether anyone has a list of aircraft that actually were converted or came as close as a paper project?
Off the top of my head I have:
(...) P-38
Any thoughts?

Don't you know the industrial/military project of P-38 on twin-floats?
see http://www.456fis.org/THE%20P-38/float.jpg

I have added many what-if variations but this was the starting point.

GTX · February 14, 2009, 02:29:44 PM

Based upon an idea raised in the Beaufighter thread (of all places) - a BV-138 Amphibian (sorry for crude drawing, but I couldn't find a decent BV-138 to start with):

Regards,

Greg

Green Dragon · February 14, 2009, 05:41:05 PM

Am I too late to join in? Never done any group builds before but I thought I might have a go. Haven't got many floaty things in the stash but was thinking of a Do18, a Spruce Goose or a Twotter done up as sky pirates.

Paul Harrison

Edit :also found a Matchbox Stranraer with one lower wing missing!

Daryl J. · February 14, 2009, 06:18:03 PM

Jump in! A Stranraer parasol might look pretty cool.

Daryl J.

Green Dragon · February 15, 2009, 01:47:49 PM

I'm in then Daryl, not sure which one to do yet but I'll have a look at all the kits and figure something out.
Leaning towards the Do18 at the moment.

Paul Harrison