Republic Sea Bee

Landing in the water more still photos at http://angelica14709.com/v-web/gallery/album113
From Wikipedia.
The RC-3 Seabee was designed by Percival Hopkins "Spence" Spencer, an aviation pioneer who built his first hang glider in April 1911. At the time he was 17 years old and constructed it from plans he found in a "Popular Mechanics" magazine. On May 15th 1914, Spencer made his first powered flight in a Curtiss Flying Boat. In 1937 he joined Sikorsky engineer Vincent A. Larsen to design their first, and only, amphibious aircraft, the Spencer-Larsen SL-12C. Development of the plane progressed slowly and in September 1940 Spencer left the partnership to form his own company. His resulting design was the Spencer S-12 Air Car Amphibian. Construction of the S-12 began on 1 March 1941 and the small, two seat S-12 prototype, registered NX29098, made its first flight on August 8 1941. The S-12 was a fabric covered amphibian with a unique boxlike forward cabin, a high wing with a two bladed propeller in pusher configuration and a long, slender tail boom

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[PSNgregiskool]

I'd like to see the cabin.

[johnkamm]

A Sea Bee is just a cool old airplane. Nothing looks or sounds like a "bee". Sad to see they are getting fewer and fewer around the local airports......However when I'm 60 + I hope to look that good

[gallopinggoose]

Nice video!!

I love Seabee eventhough I have never seen her in real life.

Thank you for sharing.

Regards,

Jun