a sailing seaplane (following : a flying boat, quite litterally)

[ericr]

There is a picture in October 2014 www.FineScale.com page 37 of Scott Newlands, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia. He used an Academy 1/72 scale B-29A and based it on the 1980's film "The Last Flight of Noah's Ark".By removing wings and tail, added interior detail and a bamboo deck, mast and launching craddle.

I didn't know that movie : it seems an excellent inspiration indeed for "creative modeling" !

[Captain Canada]

That was such a cool movie to watch as a kid !

[jcf]

On the subject of a boat that flies, or a sailing sailplane, there is one other alternative to this.

However, I have to take this to where there was a precedent for this.

If memory serves me(and, you have to remember that the 2nd sign of old age is loss, or reduction of memory, the first sign I have forgotten about) is that the early float planes and some flying boats(I think the flying boats used these) were canoe and other hulls.

So, armed with that little bit(I know, I might be stretching things a bit), wouldn't it be possible to take an air boat, a swamp buggy, so popular in some US movies and tv shows when the setting is in the Bayou, add a set of wings, have a tail mounted on a couple booms attached to the hull of the thing, and something far more powerful than the Lycoming or Continental opposed 6 cylinder they normally have?

And for a cabin structure, you could have something that is closed on 3 sides, while being open in back.

Now, before you might point out that if it doesn't have a step, but a flat bottom with a keel on some sort, you could either have a set of wedges across the center or around the center of gravity(when wedges are used on a regular boat, they are mounted  under the stern, and help keep the bow from going up when the boat is traveling at high speed), or perhaps a set of hydrofoils on kind of short struts, long enough to raise the whole craft sufficiently out of the water, yet short enough to not interfere with very much when they are possibly retracted.

The basis for this was a model Dumas RC airboat that I built a long time ago that I wanted to do more than just chase the ducks at a local pond where a lot of us took our RC watercraft too. As I was also heavily into RC airplanes, and had been wondering if I could afford that scale Catalina I had hoped for(no, I couldn't, but that didn't stop me from dreaming), I decided to see if I could give that little Dumas(the .049 powered airboat) some wings, a tail, and more engine power(tried with an .049 at first, which was embarrassing, then tried a pair of them, mounted in a pull pull arrangement, and that still didn't work. Got a OS Wankle, and after a lot of extra structure added, that worked). I didn't even have to have stabilizing floats.

So a bit like the Michigan Steel Boat Co. Flying Fish of 1911. 


http://flyingmachines.ru/Site2/Crafts/Craft30389.htm

[maxmwill]

Exactly.

This is the first time I even heard of that, and what I figured out looked a lot like that, complete with hydrofoil under the hull.

You could say that that was one hull of a ship.