Know your seaplanes...

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Simpo Two

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85,148 posts

264 months

Monday 6th July 2020
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Name that 'plane...


Turn7

23,502 posts

220 months

Monday 6th July 2020
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Its not Dave is it ?

Europa1

10,923 posts

187 months

Monday 6th July 2020
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Compact and bijou for four?

Simpo Two

Original Poster:

85,148 posts

264 months

Monday 6th July 2020
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lol very good chaps.

Take 2: 'Which company built the floating aeronautical machine you see in the photograph?'

Narcisus

8,054 posts

279 months

Monday 6th July 2020
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Boeing ?

CanAm

9,114 posts

271 months

Monday 6th July 2020
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It's not a seaplane, it's a flying boat.

eharding

13,600 posts

283 months

Monday 6th July 2020
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Curtiss MF / Seagull?

Europa1

10,923 posts

187 months

Monday 6th July 2020
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Supermarine? A precursor to the Walrus?

FourWheelDrift

88,381 posts

283 months

Monday 6th July 2020
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Walsh Brothers Flying Boat (from New Zealand)? - https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Walsh_Brothers_Flying_...

Slightly different one, but have similar float designs below the wing and above the wing, radiator at the front, small two seater.

take-good-care-of-the-forest-dewey

5,071 posts

54 months

Monday 6th July 2020
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You really can make most shapes fly... When even school boys knew the basics aerodynamics of a paper plane, it never fails to amaze me that, the first planes looked like that.

jonny142

1,503 posts

224 months

Monday 6th July 2020
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Up st creek without a paddle ?

CobolMan

1,417 posts

206 months

Monday 6th July 2020
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eharding said:
Curtiss MF / Seagull?
That's what I think it is too.

Eric Mc

121,779 posts

264 months

Tuesday 7th July 2020
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Lots of small flying boats of the 20s and 30s followed that basic layout. The Supermarine Sea Lion and the Seagull/Walrus were of this configuration as were many Caproni and Curtiss designs.

I'd never heard of Walsh flying boats before but it certainly looks very similar to the one in the linked picture - although the radiator designs are different.

eharding

13,600 posts

283 months

Tuesday 7th July 2020
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CobolMan said:
That's what I think it is too.
Another example....