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  1. W

    Kampfflugzeuge See (See-Stuka) 1938 contest

    Everyone knows about the Dormier P.85 aircraft project, a Do17Z with, among other differences, floats and straight wings. It wasn`t included in the attached table, taken from a BA/MA file on the contest for a seaplane bomber, known as "Kampfflugzeug See" or as See-Stuka, as may see. There were...
  2. AeroFranz

    Large post-war open-ocean seaplanes - references

    I am looking for good references discussing open-ocean seaplanes. I have already scoured this site, DTIC, and the other usual sources, of course. Is there a book on the ShinMaywa US-1/US-2 you would recommend? Bear in mind, sadly i do not read Japanese. I have also thought about inquiring with...
  3. S

    Dornier Seawings - Seastar and Orca hydroplanes

    Dornier Seastar all-composite amphibian evolved from 1984, more then 3 decades. For certain years, Dornier teamed Chinese company, Wuxi for further developement. Official site. Seastar initially offered as aircraft, that could be used in many application - from passenger and VIP-transportation...
  4. Graham1973

    Post WWII USN Fleet Submarines

    I spotted the photographs below in the 'Seaplane Jetfighters' thread and was wondering if anyone has any more information on the submarine design shown below. The pictures depict a 10th scale model of a 'Fleet Submarine' which was to be used to suport seaplane combat aircraft. The testing took...
  5. hesham

    David W. Taylor Naval Ship Research and Development Center Aircraft Designs

    Hi, here is some V/STOL and VATOL aircraft concepts, designed at the David W. Taylor Naval Ship Research and Development Center. NSRDC-79/O74 P PREDICTION OF DRAG COEFFICIENTS OF A SUPERSONIC V/STOL CONFIGURATION WITH VARIOUS STORE ARRANGEMENTS* Tsze C. Tai , Thomas H. Boyd , and Richard E...
  6. Hood

    Shin Meiwa Amphibious Air Transport System

    Shin Meiwa developed the Amphibious Air Transport System during the late 1980s/early 1990s and was looking for partners to complete development as late as 1999. The aircraft was a 30/50-seat airliner powered by two wing-mounted turbofans with upper surface blowing. Range would be between 500nm...
  7. Stargazer

    Naval Surface Warfare Center/NAVAIR Battleforce Seaplane designs

    Source: THE POTENTIAL EFFECT OF MATURING TECHNOLOGY UPON FUTURE SEAPLANES by Mr. August Bellanca & Ms. Carey Matthews, April 2005
  8. R

    question on He-115/He-119

    Are there any land version of He-115 since I found land and sea version of He-119 to both
  9. Triton

    Shin Meiwa “GS”

    Shin Meiwa, now ShinMaywa, “GS” (for Giant Seaplane) from 1977. The GS was an amphibian airliner designed to carry 1,200-passengers on three decks. 344 passengers on its upper deck, 626 on the main deck, and 230 on the lower deck. Payload was estimated at 120 tons. Designed for transoceanic...
  10. Triton

    Postwar Beriev flying boat and amphibian projects

    Models of ekranoplan aircraft carrier and T-20A transport ekranoplan designed by Robert Bartini while at Beriev Aircraft Corporation. Source: http://www.beriev.com/eng/Pr_rel_e/pr_110e.html
  11. Remko

    [Fictional] - Future aircraft designs by Rudolf & Robert Das

    I'm a big fan of the works of Rudolf & Robert Das, two well known futurologists from Holland. These twin brothers have published various books in the past twenty or so years, depicting the future of transportation, energy, housing etc. Instead of doing this with elaborate texts, they use...
  12. hesham

    Amphibian Autogiro

    Hi, here is an unusual amphibian autogiro aircraft,I think it was from Cierva design. http://www.flightglobal.com/PDFArchive/View/1935/1935%20-%200631.html
  13. Jemiba

    Hydro 2000

    About the mentioned Hydro 2000 : I'm still not sure, if this was really a project, or just a try to collect money...
  14. hesham

    Beriev Aircraft

    Hallo, we know most of this company's aircraft ,such as: MBR-2,MBR-4,MBR-7,MDR-5,MP-1,KOR-1,KOR-2,KOR-3,KOR-4,KOR-9,MS-4,MS-5, MS-7,MS-8,IL-143,R-1,B-10,VVA14,14M1P,M-62,A-50,A-60, Be-2,4,6,8,10,12,14,30,32,40,42,44,103,132,200,976 and 2500. But there are anther aircraft and projects:- C-13...
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