Flying Houseboats !

Old fashioned show about Seaplanes and the Berlin Airlift...

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Science & Technology

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• seaplanes
• berlin
• airlift
• World's
• Biggest
• Seaplanes

[pinwizz69]

OK you who think your an expert. I AM a former U.S, Coast Guard HU16a Seaplane/amphib Flight Mech. After my enlistment(5 years) was up I worked for the Man who owned the rights to repair,inspect and manufacturer Grumman seaplane parts. Dean Franklin of Franklin Aviation Miami Fl. Hate ta tell ya. Seaplanes do have a hull and they are watertight .If you can,t see the "stepped hull on a seaplane your blind. If you can land and taxi in "Old Goat" its a seaplane. A Flying boat has no landing gear.

[jeremy1000100]

Can we all get something understood? These are flying boats, NOT sea planes. They are not the same thing

[tomburley]

@007TruthSeeker My apologies and thank you for clarifying this. I see that I was right in my description but wrong in the naming. Seaplane is, as you pointed out, the general clasification which is then sub devided into either flying boat or float plane. I was making the distinction between the two sub catagories but incorreclt using the term seaplane when I should have used float plane.

Thanks to your generous and enthusiastic comments I acknowledge the difference.

[007TruthSeeker]

@tomburley Seaplane: any aircraft able to operate from the water. It has nothing to do with floats vs. hull floatation. Check a dictionary.

[tomburley]

@007TruthSeeker Actually you are the one who is incorrect. A seaplane is ANY plane that has been converted to make water landings/take offs - by addition of floats (either wing mounted or fixed under the main fuselage) A flying boat is, as the name suggests a boat shaped hull integral to the underside of the main fuselage that is designed to fly. They can cope with much heavier sea conditions than sea planes can and are of a different class of aorplane.

[007TruthSeeker]

Nice video of Berlin airlift. NOTHING, however, to do with houseboats.

[007TruthSeeker]

@tomburley Wrong. A seaplane lands on water. Hull or floats. Stop being ridiculous.

[pinwizz69]

OK, its simple. IF you can match my actual experience as well as show documentation that proves your opinion concerning seaplanes vs flying boats prove it. Otherwise my years in the C.G. working as an HU16e Flight Mech. as well as my experience @ Dean Franklin Aviation trumps your " opinion" . Flying Boat & Seaplane were terms that were never actually defined either type of aircraft if you go back and read various publications of the 20 through the 40s. i worked on a Seaplane not a boat !!

[tomburley]

@pinwizz69 Surely a 'seaplane' is a plane that has the addition of floats - wing mounted and/or under fuselage mounted and not an integrated part of the original airframe design.

Flying boats are/were designed with a water tight hull as part of the main fuselage and they include bilge pumps. Flying boats can include a build it under carriage within the hull structure - Catalyna PBY being a good example. Any 'stepped hull' that is seen on a seaplane is additional structure fitted to underside.

[alfsal67]

@Bikinbest Indeed it is. One of the more bulkier flying boats.

[Bikinbest]

Short Sunderland?