Modelling at 12 inch to the foot scale

[Rheged]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-25086881

Looks  potentially entertaining.

(Mods please move this if I've put it in the wrong place.)

[zenrat]

True flight or surface effect?  The Cumbrian Lake Monster...

[Nick]

Looks like a genuine flight to me from the pictures halfway down. http://waterbirdproject.com/
I've put my name down for a £3 Turnbuckle! I think they might struggle as there's a huge gap between the cheapest item at £3 and the next up at £30 or £60.

There was a lot of flying on or from Windermere, I knew about the Shorts Sunderland factory at Troutbeck and the various speedboat records but not this aspect of aviation history. The Royal Navy Air Service even had a training airbase at Cockshott Point near the ferry.
There was a rumour of Sunderlands being sunk there postwar to avoid the cost of breaking them up and a plan to find and raise them but this seems to have been wishful thinking like the Spitfires in Burma.

[Captain Canada]

That's pretty cool. As long as all that hard work survives the attempt !