We bring seaplane aviation closer to people
On Friday, 11/18/2011 the Do 24ATT had a successful first flight at the former Dornier factory airport in Oberpfaffenhoffen near Munich Germany with a German provisional airworthiness certificate (VVZ). After 27 years, the “Latina” is again back in the air with a German registration.
Rare footage from the ’70s. Short S-25 Sandringham flying boats are flying around Sydney harbour and Lord Howe Island.
We received a placard from Dr. Anna Ács, who is a museologist from Balatonfüred, Hungary. The placard indicates a floatplane and a flight-guide around Lake Balaton. In the 1920’s the seaplane-activity was prosperous around Lake Balaton.
In this article we would like to introduce the UC-1 Twin Bee amphibian, an upgraded version of an old, post-world-war hydroplane from the ’40s.
We have received this letter from Bernie van Surksum fly coordinator, Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina Holland.
53 years ago, Howard Hughes the dork american billionaire made the first, and at the same time the last flight of his giant flying boat, the Hercules.
The sensation of the April of 1923 was the appearance of the Junkers hydroplanes in the front of Hotel Gellért on river Danube. The aluminium planes with closed passenger cabs could carry five passengers. According to the contemporary news reports the quay in the front of the polytechnic was full of spectators, a few of them even tried out the hydroplanes.
