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Five seaplanes in Aero Friedrichshafen 2017
We are here to show five seaplanes of the Aero Friedrichshafen. Quick round-up, the details in the coming weeks.
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My favorite: Air mechanic lady in a Man’s World
At the Kenmore Air Express Maintenance Hangar, you don’t have to look hard to notice one of the mechanics is not like the others. The 26 years old Jenn McBeth is working as a part-time mechanic and part-time admin.
Canadian seaplane captain over Adriatic Sea
We already wrote the Croatian seaplane airline's two female pilots, they have worked together with Luke Howard, the captain of European Coastal Airlines. We have interviewed him and we asked about his seaplane pilot’s career in writing.
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100th Viking Twin Otter series 400 aircraft became seaplane
The 100th Viking Twin Otter series 400 aircraft has been manufactured landing gear, but later the factory equiped it with amphibious floats last year.
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Beriev water bomber jet seaplane in Portugal
The Russian Emergencies Ministry sent two Beriev Be-200 Altair water bomber jet seaplane upon Portugal’s request to assist it in battling forest fires last week. One Beriev Be-200 amphibian sustained minor damage when it hit the tops of trees while fighting a forest fire near Leiria, Portugal.
6 seaplanes at Mazury Airshow
Mazury Airshow, where the presentation was held in aircraft and seaplanes above the waterfront of the small town Gizycko in Poland last weekend. I sent seaplane questions to Chief Pilots Cooperation Team and co-organizer of Mazury AirShow, Jakub Fajfer, who has given a lot of original images.
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Video: Junkers F-13 seaplane on Lake Balaton
This video showing how fly the Junkers F-13 by seaplane on Lake Balaton in the twenties. Recently built a Junkers F-13 replica in Germany. It could be mounted on wheels instead of floats, may be back nostalgia seaplane flight in Europe.
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101 seaplanes at EAA AirVenture OshKosh
101 seaplanes landed at EAA Aiventure Oshkosh last week, but Rutan SkiGull seaplane missed the festival, while I was looking forward SkiGull takeoff from the water.
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AVIC AG600 Water Dragon seaplane rolled out
AVIC AG600 giant seaplane rolled off a production line in Zhuhai last week. The Water Dragon will be used to fight forest fires and marine rescue missions. The AVIC seaplane factory has no plans to exit the international market, there would be two competitors, the Japanese ShinMaywa US-2 and the Russian Beriev Be-200 seaplanes.
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Viking Air acquires heritage of Bombardier waterbomber seaplane
I went to see the Viking Air aircraft factory in British Columbia six years ago, then it started production of the new Twin Otter Series 400. The prototype that could not be photographed shown on wheels and its amphibious floats rested himself in the factory courtyard between the old timer seaplanes.