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A seaplane is a fixed-wing aircraft designed to take off and land (or "alight") upon water. DeHavilland Single Otter in Harbour Air livery. ...
DeHavilland Single Otter in Harbour Air livery. ...
Another in de Havilland Canadas successful line of rugged and useful STOL utility transports, the single engined, high wing, propeller-driven Otter was conceived to be capable of performing the same roles as the earlier and highly successful Beaver, but was bigger, the vertible one-ton truck. ...
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A livery is a uniform worn by a civilian person. ...
An Air France Boeing 777, a modern passenger jet. ...
These aircraft are occasionally called hydroplanes, based on usage in several Romance languages, which is rare in English. The Romance languages, also called Romanic languages, are a subfamily of the Italic languages, specifically the descendants of the Vulgar Latin dialects spoken by the common people evolving in different areas after the break-up of the Roman Empire. ...
The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...
Types of seaplane
There are two types of seaplane: the floatplane and the flying boat. Boeing 314 A flying boat is an aircraft that is designed to take off and land on water, in particular a type of seaplane which uses its fuselage as a floating hull (instead of pontoons mounted below the fuselage). ...
- A floatplane has slender pontoons mounted under the fuselage. Two floats are common, but many float planes of World War II had a single float under the main fuselage and two small floats on the wings. Only the "floats" of a floatplane normally come into contact with water. The fuselage remains above water. Some small land aircraft can be modified to become float planes.
- In a flying boat, the main source of buoyancy is the fuselage, which acts much like a ship's hull in the water. Most flying boats have small floats mounted on their wings to keep them stable.
The term "seaplane" is used by some to refer only to floatplanes (aircraft with floats as landing gear), with the flying boat being a distinct type in its own right. The above definitions and assumption that flying boats[1] and float planes[2] are distinct types of seaplane[3] are used herein. A pontoon boat, like this small pleasure boat, typically floats and balances by means of two pontoons oriented in the direction of travel. ...
The fuselage can be short, and seemingly unaerodynamic, as in this Christen Eagle 2 The fuselage (from the French fuselé spindle-shaped) is an aircrafts main body section that holds crew and passengers or cargo. ...
Combatants Major Allied powers: United Kingdom Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Major Axis powers: Nazi Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead...
// In physics, buoyancy is the upward force on an object arising from the displacement of the fluid (i. ...
A hull is the body or frame of a ship or boat. ...
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The Grumman G-21 Goose amphibious flying boat was designed as a 6-7 seat commuter plane for businessmen in the Long Island area. ...
Boeing 314 A flying boat is an aircraft that is designed to take off and land on water, in particular a type of seaplane which uses its fuselage as a floating hull (instead of pontoons mounted below the fuselage). ...
Main and nosewheel undercarriage of a Qatar Airways Airbus A330 The undercarriage or landing gear is equipment which supports an aircraft when it is not flying. ...
An amphibious aircraft can take off and land both on conventional runways and on water, whereas a true seaplane can only take off and land on water. There are amphibious flying boats and amphibious floatplanes, as well as some hybrid designs, e.g., floatplanes with retractable floats. Modern production seaplanes are largely amphibious and of a floatplane design, although the Seawind 300C, an amphibious flying boat, has begun the FAA certification process. An amphibious or amphibian aircraft is an aircraft that can land on either land or water. ...
History of seaplanes
 The first seaplane, the French 1910 Le Canard The first seaplane was invented in March 1910 by the French engineer Henri Fabre. Its name was Le Canard, and took off from the water and flew 800 meters on its first flight on March 28, 1910. These experiments were closely followed by the aircraft pioneers Gabriel and Charles Voisin, who purchased several of the Fabre floats and fitted them to their Canard Voisin airplane. In October 1910, the Canard Voisin became the first seaplane to fly over the river Seine, and in March 1912, the first seaplane to be used militarily from a seaplane carrier, La Foudre. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1036x732, 69 KB) This picture may have usage restrictions Henri Fabres first float plane Source: Net File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Seaplane Henri Fabre Le Canard...
Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1036x732, 69 KB) This picture may have usage restrictions Henri Fabres first float plane Source: Net File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Seaplane Henri Fabre Le Canard...
The 1910 Le Canard Le Canard (lit. ...
Henri Fabre in 1910 Henri Fabre (born in Marseille on 29 November 1882, died in 1984) was a French aviator and the inventor of Le Canard, the first seaplane in History. ...
The 1910 Le Canard Le Canard (lit. ...
Henry Farman, left, and Gabriel Voisin. ...
The Canard Voisin was a plane developed by Gabriel and Charles Voisin in 1910. ...
The Seine (pronounced in French) is a major river of north-western France, and one of its commercial waterways. ...
La Foudre was a French seaplane carrier, and arguably the first seaplane carrier in history [1]. Her development followed the invention of the seaplane in 1910 with the French Le Canard. ...
In the United States, early development was carried out at Hammondsport, New York by Glenn Curtiss who had beaten Alexander Graham Bell and others in the Aerial Experiment Association. The first American seaplane flight occurred on Jan. 26, 1911. Curtiss N-9 seaplanes were used during World War I as primary trainers, and over 2,500 Navy pilots learned to fly in them. A handful of N-9s were used in the Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane project to develop an "aerial torpedo", an unmanned seaplane that would hit a distant target. On March 27, 1919, the first transatlantic flight was completed by a U.S. Navy seaplane. Hammondsport is a village located in Steuben County, New York. ...
Official language(s) English de facto Capital Albany Largest city New York City Area Ranked 27th - Total 54,520 sq mi (141,205 km²) - Width 285 miles (455 km) - Length 330 miles (530 km) - % water 13. ...
Glenn H. Curtiss at the Grande Semaine dAviation in France in 1909 Glenn Hammond Curtiss (May 21, 1878 – July 23, 1930) was an aviation pioneer and founder of the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company, now part of Curtiss-Wright Corporation. ...
Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was a Scottish scientist and inventor who emigrated to Canada and later the United States. ...
The Aerial Experiment Association (AEA) was formed in 1907 under the tutelage of Dr. Alexander Graham Bell. ...
The Curtiss N-9 was a seaplane variant of the Curtiss JN-4 Jenny military trainer used during the World War I. As a seaplane, the N-9 was equipped with a single central pontoon mounted under the fuselage. ...
The Hewitt-Sperry Automatic Airplane was a project undertaken during World War I to develop an aerial torpedo, a pilotless aircraft capable of carrying explosives to its target. ...
The United States Navy (USN) is the branch of the United States armed forces responsible for naval operations. ...
During World Wars I and II, many navies used seaplanes for reconnaissance, search and rescue, and anti-submarine warfare. Most battleships carried one or two (some cases as many as four) catapult-launched seaplanes to spot targets over the horizon for the big guns, or to fight off enemy reconnaissance planes. The failure of the German battleship Bismarck's Arado 196 seaplane to hunt down a PBY Catalina reconnaissance aircraft is said to have contributed to the ship's demise. Combatants Allied Powers: British Empire France Italy Russia United States Central Powers: Austria-Hungary Bulgaria Germany Ottoman Empire Commanders Ferdinand Foch Georges Clemenceau Joseph Joffre Victor Emmanuel III Luigi Cadorna Armando Diaz Nicholas II Aleksei Brusilov Herbert Henry Asquith Douglas Haig John Jellicoe Woodrow Wilson John Pershing Wilhelm II Paul...
Combatants Major Allied powers: United Kingdom Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Major Axis powers: Nazi Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead...
The multinational Combined Task Force One Five Zero (CTF-150) The British Grand Fleet, the supreme naval force of World War I A rare occurrence of a 5-country multinational fleet, during Operation Enduring Freedom in the Oman Sea. ...
Mixed reconnaissance patrol of the Polish Home Army and the Soviet Red Army during Operation Tempest, 1944 Reconnaissance is the military term for the active gathering of information about an enemy, or other conditions, by physical observation. ...
Search and Rescue (acronym SAR) is an operation mounted by emergency services, often well-trained volunteers, to find someone believed to be in distress, lost, sick or injured either in a remote or difficult to access area, such as mountains, desert or forest (Wilderness search and rescue), or at sea...
Anti-submarine warfare (ASW or in older forms A/S) is a branch of naval warfare that uses surface warships, aircraft or other submarines to find, track and then damage or destroy enemy submarines. ...
HMS Victory in 1884 Battleship was the name given to the most powerfully gun-armed and most heavily armored classes of warships built between the 15th and 20th centuries. ...
The German battleship Bismarck is one of the most famous warships of the Second World War. ...
The Ar 196 was a shipboard reconnaissance aircraft built by Arado starting in 1936. ...
PBY Catalina was the United States Navy designation for an American and Canadian-built flying boat of the 1930s and 1940s. ...
 Seaplane airbase at Natal (Rio Grande do Norte), Brazil. In the post war period the military uses of seaplanes were much reduced. The British and the US experimented with jet powered seaplane fighters such as the Saunders-Roe SR.A/1. Seaplane tenders, such as HMS Engadine, fell out of use after the 1950s with the general demise of the seaplane, the advent of the first stable, fully-controllable helicopter, and continued development of the modern aircraft carrier. The U.S. Navy, however, continued to operate seaplanes and seaplane tenders, especially in the Far East until the mid-1970s. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 782 KB) Description: Natal (Rio Grande do Norte), Brasil. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1600x1200, 782 KB) Description: Natal (Rio Grande do Norte), Brasil. ...
The Saunders-Roe SR.A/1 was a prototype fighter aircraft tested by the Royal Air Force shortly after World War II. It is unique in being the only jet-powered flying boat fighter ever flown. ...
A seaplane tender (or seaplane carrier) is a ship which provides the facililites necessary for operating seaplanes. ...
HMS Engadine was a seaplane tender which served in the First World War. ...
1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Robinson Helicopter Company (USA) R44, a four seat development of the R22 A helicopter is an aircraft which is lifted and propelled by one or more horizontal rotors, each having two or more rotor blades. ...
Four aircraft carriers, Principe-de-Asturias, USS Wasp, USS Forrestal and HMS Invincible (front-to-back), showing the difference in size between a supercarrier, light V/STOL carriers, and an amphibious carrier. ...
An attempt was made in the early to mid-1950s to develop a full-sized jet-powered flying boat (the Martin P6M Seamaster) for the U.S. Navy but, though several prototypes were built and tested, the project was eventually terminated for a variety of reasons.
Seaplanes are increasingly being used for ASW, SAR and firefighting and are being considered for expanded military purposes in light of the pervasive surveillance means of satellites that make slow surface ships leaving a visible wakes easy to target with guided munitions.[citation needed]
Seaplane uses and operation Numerous modern civilian aircraft have a floatplane variant, usually for light duty transportation to lakes and other remote areas. Most of these are offered as third-party modifications under a supplemental type certificate (STC), although there are several aircraft manufacturers that build floatplanes from scratch, and a few that continue to build flying boats. Many older flying boats remain in service for fire-fighting duty, and Chalk's Ocean Airways operated a fleet of flying boats in passenger service until service was suspended after a crash on December 19, 2005. Purely water-based seaplanes have largely been supplanted by amphibious aircraft. A Type Certificate (sometimes called Airworthiness Certificate), is awarded by aviation regulating bodies (such as FAA in US and EASA in EU) to aerospace firms after it has been established that the particular design of aircraft, engines or propeller submitted has fulfilled the regulating bodies current prevailing airworthiness requirements for...
Boeing 314 A flying boat is an aircraft that is designed to take off and land on water, in particular a type of seaplane which uses its fuselage as a floating hull (instead of pontoons mounted below the fuselage). ...
Chalks International Airlines (IATA: OP, ICAO: CHK, and Callsign: Chalks), formerly Chalks Ocean Airways, is an airline based in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. ...
On December 19, 2005 Chalks Ocean Airways Flight 101 from Watson Island to Bimini crashed off Miami Beach, Florida. ...
December 19 is the 353rd day of the year (354th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Seaplanes can only take off and land on water with little or no wave action and, like other aircraft, have trouble in extreme weather. The size of waves a given design can withstand depends on, among other factors, the aircraft's size, hull or float design, and its weight. Flying boats can typically handle rougher water and are generally more stable than floatplanes while on the water. Image File history File links West Coast Air De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter floatplane shortly after takeoff from Vancouver, B. C. Image taken June 13, 2005 by User:Leonard G. File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this...
Image File history File links West Coast Air De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter floatplane shortly after takeoff from Vancouver, B. C. Image taken June 13, 2005 by User:Leonard G. File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this...
The DHC-6 Twin Otter is a 20-passenger STOL feederliner and utility aircraft developed by de Havilland Canada. ...
West Coast Air is a small airline based out of Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada. ...
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Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1500x864, 305 KB) This image was created by me, Flying Penguin of Pacific Spirit Photography (psp@smartt. ...
Vancouver (pronounced: ) is a city in southwestern British Columbia, Canada. ...
Motto: Splendor Sine Occasu (Latin: Splendour without diminishment) Official languages English de facto (none stated in law) Flower Pacific dogwood Tree Western Redcedar Bird Stellers Jay Capital Victoria Largest city Vancouver Lieutenant-Governor Iona Campagnolo Premier Gordon Campbell (BC Liberal) Parliamentary representation - House seats - Senate seats 36 6 Area...
Ocean waves Ocean surface waves are surface waves which occur at the surface of an ocean. ...
Rescue organizations, such as coast guards, are among the largest modern operators of seaplanes due to their efficiency and their ability to both spot and rescue survivors. Land-based airplanes cannot rescue survivors, and many helicopters are limited in their capacity to carry survivors and in their fuel efficiency compared to fixed-wing aircraft. (Helicopters may also be fitted with floats to facilitate their usage on water, though such craft are not referred to as "seaplanes".) Rescue refers to operations that usually involve the saving of life, or prevention of injury. ...
A coast guard is a national organization responsible for various services at sea. ...
Fuel efficiency sometimes means the same as thermal efficiency or fuel economy. ...
Seaplanes are also often used in remote areas such as the Alaskan and Canadian outback, especially in areas with a large number of lakes convenient for takeoff and landing. They may operate on a charter basis, provide scheduled service, or be operated by residents of the area for private, personal use. Official language(s) English Capital Juneau Largest city Anchorage Area Ranked 1st - Total 663,267 sq mi (1,717,855 km²) - Width 808 miles (1,300 km) - Length 1,479 miles (2,380 km) - % water 13. ...
A tourism sign post Yalgoo, Western Australia The Outback is the remote and arid interior and north of Australia, although the term colloquially can cover any lands outside of the main urban areas. ...
A man-made lake in Keukenhof, Netherlands A lake is a body of water or other liquid of considerable size surrounded by land. ...
A charter airline is one that operates charter flights, that is flights that take place outside normal schedules, by a hiring arrangement with a particular customer. ...
Within the European Union, Greece is the only country that uses seaplanes to connect its many islands to the mainland. In the Western Hemisphere, there are numerous seaplane operators in the Caribbean Sea that offer service within or between island groups. Map of Central America and the Caribbean A Caribbean beach in Isla Margarita, Venezuela. ...
Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ...
Wiktionary is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ...
See also An amphibious or amphibian aircraft is an aircraft that can land on either land or water. ...
Boeing 314 A flying boat is an aircraft that is designed to take off and land on water, in particular a type of seaplane which uses its fuselage as a floating hull (instead of pontoons mounted below the fuselage). ...
The following is a list of flying boats and seaplanes. ...
Auxiliary cruisers were merchant ships taken over for conversion into a vessel armed with cruiser-size guns, and employed either for convoy protection against true cruisers, or for commerce-raiding missions, where its appearance was used to trick merchant ships into approaching. ...
A seaplane tender (or seaplane carrier) is a ship which provides the facililites necessary for operating seaplanes. ...
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