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Ladies and Gentleman!
I introduce to you a fine piece of engineering...
It's slick!
It's fast!!
It's super cool!!!
AND IT FLOATS ! ! !
It's the Waterbird Aviation "Frigate Amphibious"... (concept)







Cool eh?  8)
I don't know if anyone has ever seen it / flown it (it's rather old file) but I thought I'd share...

Yepper, great fun, huh?
Cheers
Splash(Ed)

Cool eh?  8)

Cool indeed

Looks very interesting

Interesting concept. How does she fly?

I don't know if anyone has ever seen it / flown it (it's rather old file) but I thought I'd share...

I have, when I flew FS8...it also has a rather crude VC...but yeah...pretty cool idea

I was wondering when anyone would come up with a floating jet!!!! Well now here it is  ;)  

Whats the link?

*Gets out things that need doing list*

Add 'Amphi-Jet' to fleet

Lol!! That is an intersting design. Are they going ahead with building it?

I wonder how those turbine react on soaking up all that water... hmm... Jetski...  ;D

How does she fly?

A bit weird on the turning, lots of rudder needed.
Easy to land, but hard to slow down...

Are they going ahead with building it?

I wouldn't know...  ???

Whats the link?

OH there's an update as well!
It's on avsim. Search for waterbird.

You can find that little critter on most FS sites, including SimV.

I flew it many a time, all over the country (in FS! ) but I eventually ran up against a sort of barrier: the lack of a good VC and well-modelled aircraft really bothered me, so I started designing this, which is like a next-gen version, a bit beefed-up . . .



Here's some info from an original post about a year ago:
http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb/ ... 24;start=4