American Tracy Ellen Zedeck who has been captain of one year in this summer arrived to the Croatian European Costal Airlines from Maldivian Islands. We asked about her seaplane pilot’s career in writing.
Water bomber seaplanes in action
The seaplanes have become indispensable to extinguish forest fires. This compilation shows the firefighter seaplane types that are in the vicinity of the forest taking up water for extinguishing forest fires all over the world today.
First French Latecoere Rally
Latecoere Rally has already staged on the several continents except Europe. But in France for the first time was this Rally in early September this year. The Rally commemorated the biggest French seaplane manufacturer, Pierre-Georges Latecoere.
ICON A5 at New York City
The ICON A5 has been flying along the Hudson River and the over iconic New York skyline last week. Captain Kirk Hawkins the ICON’s founder and CEO explains and shows in this article’s video that small seaplane would be like…
AG 600: China builds the world’s largest flying boat
After months of speculation China announced this summer that it is has started to assemble the Jiaolong AG600 (Water Dragon). It will be currently the world’s largest amphibious aircraft. The cameras also let to go in the Chinese aircraft factory…
Bigger Chirok seaplane at Aviasalon
New Russian Chirok amphibious drone’s small version showed first time last summer. The black new seaplane unique feature was the Chirok’s air cushion is fully-retractable during flight and water and snow landing not open it. This week at the MAKS…
LISA Airplanes at the gates of China
One year ago Chinese investors came in the French company Lisa Airplanes, who plans to continue the production in Europe. We asked Vanessa Troillard marketing manager about the LSA aircraft AKOYA of the development and the tasks ahead of the…
EAA Airventure Oshkosh: seaplanes on grass, on water
Recently was the world’s largest annual aircraft pilot’s meeting at Oshkosh, near Chicago, where seaplanes also showcased. Alex McNaught from Australia sent us a reportage with images about osh15. The end of this article we recommend a seaplane captain blogpost,…
Do-24ATT heavy contact by an object in the water
Two weeks ago on Scalaria Air Challenge the Dornier Do-24ATT old timer flying boat has been accident on landing. Video, images and reviews, descriptions of the heavy landing. Good news, the Do-24ATT already is parking in front of Red Bull…
Burt Rutan unveiled SkiGull only in pictures
All seaplane fans from all around the world are waited for the information about the new Rutan’s seaplane, named SkiGull, at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2015. Although SkiGull prototype has not manufactured yet, but the world famous aircraft designer gave details…