For the honor of the centenary of the foundation of the first Dornier airplane factory, Conrado Dornier builds a new seaplane factory in Canada where the 10 seater Luxury Dornier Seastar will be constructed of composite in the next five…
On Finnish waters, snow and ice
In Finland as the land of thousand lakes no wonder that water flying is flourishing. Due to the short season the Finns expanded their water flying association with skies flying.
Like knife in the water
If somebody jumps into the water with his stomach he is going to have a painful experience. In the case of a fast subject the water behaves like the concrete. When a plane touch the water it is like that…
Thirty seater seaplane form Beriev
New models have been introduced from Beriev, the World’s biggest and outmost seaplane producer company. We begin their presentation with the Beriev 112 multi task amphibia.
Family company with widely travelled father
A Swiss educated aircraft engineer, who worked on the development of the Concorde, then moved to Canada to the DeHavilland Company and finally in 1973 from the anagram of his name established the garage sized Zenith Aircraft Company in the…
Reminiscences from the west to the east
We have been on the three biggest European Seaplane festivals during the past year, a few thoughts and pictures from the past.
Seaplane with foldable wings – Icon A5
A slightly more than 100 thousand dollars a two seater seaplane is on the sale in Los Angeles. The speciality of this plane is that its wing can be folded, so it is possible to store it in a garage…
Video: Iren Dornier on Scalaria Air Challenge
Iren Dornier is an very important person in the Scalaria Air Challenge, we made an interview with him on his new two seater plane and the European water flying.
Catalina skeleton in the desert
Somebody has found these pictures on the website stipistop.com. It is still beautiful despite its condition. We crown these photos with a video of a Catalina, which is still in operation.
Video: German Seaplane Day
There has been the first German Seaplane Day near Tries on the first weekend of September, which was almost washed away by torrential rains. Here comes the first part of our report on this event.