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Seaplanes in Aero Friedrichshafen 2016
Recently we visited largest general aviation exhibition of Europe in the city’s Lake Constance. Unfortunately we saw few seaplanes there.
Scottish seaplane airline’s new Cessna Caravan flew home over the Atlantic
Loch Lomond Seaplanes is planning to conquer London this summer, accordingly they bought a fantastic VIP interior new Cessna and they flew home to Europe recently.
Seaplane flight by autogyro on floats
The autogyro is a rotary-wing aircraft that uses a propeller for forward motion and a freely rotating, unmotorized rotor for lift. Unfortunately, it rarely used by seaplane but it is very attractive in flight.
RC Dornier Do-214 Lufthansa fantastic flight
Frank Seuffert built a more than two-meter wingspan radio remote-controlled two-storey historical passenger seaplane. The RC Do-214 Lufthansa elegant flight is shown in this video.
Nordic Seaplanes: new scheduled seaplane route in Denmark
In April it is expected to start seaplane flight between the capital city and second largest city in Denmark with five flights daily. It will be Europe's second scheduled seaplane…
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Seaplane’s future the most powerful hybrid electric powertrain
Few years ago Ivo Boscarol’s team won sponsored by Google and NASA the Green Flight Challenge. Its four-seater electric airplane, the Pipistrel Taurus G4 flew 200 miles in less than 2 hours and used less than one gallon of fuel energy equivalent per passenger. Since the victory Pipistrel CEO Ivo Boscarol continues developing electric and hybrid propulsion for aircraft with Siemens and universities. This team’s latest project is the HYPSTAIR, we hope the seaplanes are going to use its results in the near future.
Guestvideo Europe’s only scheduled seaplane service
At long last in Europe one seaplane airline is scheduled operates and developing well. Moreover the Croatian European Coastal Airlines already flies to Italy. Special and wonderful shots of its DHC-6 Twin Otter seaplane flight.
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Diamond Aircraft builds Dornier Seastar airframe
Austrian and German company united Chinese financial backgrounds and finally will be a new European seaplane, the Dornier Seastar. After thirty years of this seaplane first taking off its production will start and according to the plans this summer Dornier present the first series product Seastar amphibious aircraft.
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New seaplanes in Europe
For many years it takes for a new seaplane model gets the type of license and may be sold. We looked at the garage and the factories of what to…
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Seaplane best of 2015
Year-end retrospective. I think, these facts will speed up the seaplanes to spread to the world. Maybe a new seaplane golden age will be soon?
