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Floats

PostPosted: Sun Aug 07, 2011 10:14 am
by Flying Trucker
Good morning all... :)

Here is a Link to some great videos of float aircraft...

http://www.bush-planes.com/DeHavilland- ... eaver.html

-Several good Beaver videos
-Several good crash videos
-How not to land a Norseman
-Big Brown Bear going to help dock the float plane
-many more... :)

Re: Floats

PostPosted: Sun Aug 07, 2011 11:47 am
by patchz
Great link Doug, thanks. :)

The one of the BE-200 picking up water is amazing.

Re: Floats

PostPosted: Sun Aug 07, 2011 11:55 am
by Steve M
Thanks Doug, that's a fun site and good reading. It's to bad they don't open up a production run of about 500 more Beavers using the old specs. With todays CNC machines one could build those radials with much tighter tolerances, making them even more efficient I would think.

Re: Floats

PostPosted: Mon Aug 08, 2011 7:11 am
by Flying Trucker
Thanks for the comment Larry and glad you enjoyed the site... ;)

There is talk of opening the Beaver and Otter lines again Steve as there is nothing built that can replace them... ;)

We also hear they are going to take the DeHavilland Caribou and replace the engines with a turbine I think...

Glad you liked the site... ;)

Re: Floats

PostPosted: Wed Aug 17, 2011 1:15 pm
by BigTruck
Didn't get a darn thing accomplished at work this morning because of this site, thanks Doug.   >:(   ;D

Re: Floats

PostPosted: Sat Aug 27, 2011 5:43 am
by Flying Trucker
Again thanks for the comments all... ;)