22 Aug 2022, 20:04 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / From the makers of the Thunderbolt and the Warthog, this is the RC-3 Seabee. The plucky little sports flying boat with fighter plane DNA hidden inside.
21 Aug 2022, 15:17 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / For those who don't have a categorical knowledge of every World War II American military plane, the PBY was the brains behind the Hellcat and Corsair's muscle.
17 Aug 2022, 01:44 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / The Do X's proportions are eerily similar to modern widebody jet airliners. the Do-X's width matches that of a modern Boeing 767-300 to within inches
16 Aug 2022, 19:30 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / In truth, Saro had been working on the concept for a twin-engine, jet-powered flying boat since at least 1943 under Air Ministry specification E.6/44.
10 Aug 2022, 20:50 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Of the six P6M airframes constructed, none survive today. In doing so, the Navy more or less cast out flying boats as a viable weapon of war.
6 Aug 2022, 05:57 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / In 2022, it's almost unfathomable to believe that in the distance, takeoff and landing by water were by far the preferred method o flight.
12 Jul 2022, 19:14 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Happily, this old Goose is owned not by an eccentric multimillionaire aviator. Instead, it's in the collection of the Cradle of Aviation Museum in New York.
14 Mar 2022, 03:11 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Powering this aircraft is a set of four Wright R-3350 Duplex-Cyclone 18-cylinder radial engines generating 2,500 hp (1,900 kW) each