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Convair F2Y Sea Dart

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Uploaded by on Dec 12, 2008

The Convair F2Y Sea Dart was a unique American seaplane fighter aircraft that rode on twin hydro-skis for takeoff. It only flew as a prototype, and never entered production, but it is still the only seaplane to exceed the speed of sound.

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  • bet that took one hell of a pilot

  • It looks like something from the Thunderbirds TV series of the mid-60s.

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  • guy show off with his new shiny jet ski

    you show up with this

    you lean out of the canopy- hey whats up

    showoff- O,O

  • They had ALL kinds of problems with this aircraft, including engine placement on the aircraft, the ski positon and amount (one/two etc) the vibration on the water made the a/c almost unmanagable, the list went on and on until the USN decided maybe not such a great idea and dropped the whole project.

  • very rare video, something unusual! I've posted it in my aviation blog: kestrel-aviation-videos.blogsp­ot.com

  • wow ... amazing

  • THE CONVAIR F2Y SEA DART IS ON DISPLAY AT THE SAN DIEGO AEROSPACE MUSEUM

  • Amazing.

    I dont want to seem irrespective but the look resembles very close to Anderson's marionetation fentascientific series!!

  • @phil656565

    ROGER THAT!!!!!!!

  • Fantastic

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