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Re: Dumb question about boat planes
Posted: February 17, 2010 9:28 pm
by rmissbrook
WOW!
Boy those are really, really neat. Now does the Renegade also land on sand? (Big smile)
Re: Dumb question about boat planes
Posted: February 17, 2010 9:43 pm
by Dutch Harbor PH
rmissbrook wrote:WOW!
Boy those are really, really neat. Now does the Renegade also land on sand? (Big smile)
Not very well.....to land on sand or beaches you need Tundra or Beach tires....They are those huge Balloon-y cartoon looking tires..... The Lakes tires would just plow into the sand and that would not be good....the Lakes tires are really meant for hard surface landings and I suppose would be OK running up on fairly hard packed beaches......
Piper Cub with tundra tires........
Re: Dumb question about boat planes
Posted: February 18, 2010 9:18 am
by palmettopirate
I thought I read that Jimmy had a Cessna 208. That plane looks like a floater even without the floats. I didn't attach a pic but you can look it up easily.
Re: Dumb question about boat planes
Posted: February 18, 2010 9:23 am
by big john
ALBATROSS! 
Re: Dumb question about boat planes
Posted: February 18, 2010 9:33 am
by AlbatrossFlyer
Snowparrot wrote:My daughter reminded us today that, as a pilot, she SMELS:
single (engine)
multi engine
land
sea
me smels too,
Re: Dumb question about boat planes
Posted: February 18, 2010 9:34 am
by AlbatrossFlyer
palmettopirate wrote:I thought I read that Jimmy had a Cessna 208. That plane looks like a floater even without the floats. I didn't attach a pic but you can look it up easily.
actually he has a brand spanking new one....
Re: Dumb question about boat planes
Posted: February 18, 2010 9:40 am
by AlbatrossFlyer
HurricaneSeason wrote:It's very frustrating to like these planes and yet there is very little about them in every day life. I wish there was a show or two about them. Like Modern Marvels or something. Or that some of the airplane magazines would do some features on 'em. If they have I've never seen them.
I know there are some websites about the various Grummans and others but it almost seems like a sort of, what, cottage industry? Just not very out there. Which is a shame because the planes are really cool.
There's a flying boat that cruises the northshore of Lake Pontchartrain. I'm drawing a blank on what kind it is but it has the propeller facing backwards...
there's several shows on the military channel about WWII vintage seaplanes.
Re: Dumb question about boat planes
Posted: February 18, 2010 9:56 am
by palmettopirate
palmettopirate wrote:
I thought I read that Jimmy had a Cessna 208. That plane looks like a floater even without the floats. I didn't attach a pic but you can look it up easily.
actually he has a brand spanking new one....
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And that thing does almost look like a float plane, doesn't it. Actually they can be fit with pontoons as you know. But that big belly makes then look like a flying boat anyway.
Re: Dumb question about boat planes
Posted: February 19, 2010 1:27 am
by Dutch Harbor PH
Re: Dumb question about boat planes
Posted: February 19, 2010 8:29 am
by palmettopirate
I'm realizing that with a range of over 1,000 miles I need to keep an eye out for Jimmy's new Cessna 208. He can load the family up in that thing and make it to Charleston from Palm Beach or New York without a stop, and he doesn't have to fire up that 3 motored rocket ship. Of course it's the perfect airplane for island hopping.
Re: Dumb question about boat planes
Posted: February 19, 2010 8:52 am
by Staredge
Re: Dumb question about boat planes
Posted: February 19, 2010 11:01 am
by HurricaneSeason
A 747 eh?
That ain't no 747! That's INSANE!
Re: Dumb question about boat planes
Posted: February 20, 2010 5:34 am
by Dutch Harbor PH
Re: Dumb question about boat planes
Posted: February 20, 2010 1:24 pm
by rmissbrook
I'm just loving all these responses to my original rather naive questions. What great info! Thank you all.
Re: Dumb question about boat planes
Posted: February 22, 2010 2:08 am
by Dutch Harbor PH
Re: Dumb question about boat planes
Posted: February 22, 2010 3:54 am
by Dutch Harbor PH
More.....
Beaver on floats, Turbo Otter on floats and a Beech 18 on floats....
Re: Dumb question about boat planes
Posted: February 22, 2010 9:26 am
by Snowparrot
Re: Dumb question about boat planes
Posted: February 22, 2010 9:37 am
by Staredge
The world's most beautiful seaplane:
aannnnnnnnddddddddddd.......the world's ugliest:
![[smilie=asa.gif]](./images/smilies/asa.gif "asa")
![[smilie=geek.gif]](./images/smilies/geek.gif "geek")
Damb thing doesn't take off.......the water spits it out.
Re: Dumb question about boat planes
Posted: February 22, 2010 9:40 am
by Staredge
Dutch Harbor PH wrote:More.....
Beaver on floats, Turbo Otter on floats and a Beech 18 on floats....
Unusual to see a low-wing floatplane.
Re: Dumb question about boat planes
Posted: February 22, 2010 6:11 pm
by rmissbrook
Aww, I don't know about that. I think plane number 2 is so ugly it's cute.
Staredge wrote:The world's most beautiful seaplane:
aannnnnnnnddddddddddd.......the world's ugliest:
Damb thing doesn't take off.......the water spits it out.
