Image of the type, in Canadian police service. It's a float plane, not a seaplane. A seaplane puts its fuselage in the water.
The PBY5-A is a seaplane:
Image of the type, in Canadian police service. It's a float plane, not a seaplane. A seaplane puts its fuselage in the water.
The PBY5-A is a seaplane:
My brother and I made a Revell model of one many many many years ago.
I always heard that a Catalina or a Boeing Clipper were flying boats, and that a plane with floats was either a seaplane or a float plane.
Anyway, a tragic loss of life in that Cessna. Landing either type is extremely tricky.
Have been in a lot of float planes in AK, but since a kid, I was always a PBY fan.
A seaplane is a powered fixed-wing aircraft capable of taking off and landing (alighting) on water.[1] Seaplanes that can also take off and land on airfields are in a subclass called amphibian aircraft. Seaplanes and amphibians are usually divided into two categories based on their technological characteristics: floatplanes and flying boats; the latter are generally far larger and can carry far more. These aircraft were sometimes called hydroplanes,[2] but currently, this term applies instead to motor-powered watercraft that use the technique of hydrodynamic lift to levitate their main hull above the water when running at speed.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seaplane
I recall the Navy using the term “seaplane” for aircraft on floats and the term “flying boat” for those aircraft with a floating fuselage.
” It’s a float plane, not a seaplane. A seaplane puts its fuselage in the water.”
Apparently this one did, too.