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A Curtiss F-5L flying boat, in flight, above NAS Rockway! |
A Curtiss F-5L flying boat, in flight, above NAS Rockway! |
The airfield at NAS Rockaway. |
A United States Navy NAF F-5L flying boat on Magdalena Bay, in Mexico. This flying boat was one of the twelve NAF F-5L flying boats that participated in Captain Henry C. Mustin's 3,200-mile flight, from San Diego, California, to the Panama Canal, which was completed, in legs, in 20 days, from December 1920 to early 1921. The three-engined NC-5 and NC-6 flying boats were also part of this squadron, but they were damaged during the flight and abandoned, with the NC-5 intentionally being sunk in the Pacific Ocean, by an American destroyer, and the NC-6 left on a beach at San Juan Del Sur, Nicaragua. The return flight, to san Diego, started on February 23, 1921 and was completed on March 10th, with the loss of only one F-5L flying boat, which was damaged in an ocean landing, along the way. |
The Naval Aircraft Factory PN-9-1 flying boat, with serial number A-6878, that Commander John Rogers and his crew used for an attempted transpacific flight from San Francisco, California to Hawaii, on August 31st, 1925, with a Naval Aircraft Factory PN-8 that had been converted to a PN-9. An oil leak forced the converted PN-8 to abandon its flight, shortly after take off, and about 400 miles into its flight, the PN-9-1 ran out of fuel, forcing it to land on the Pacific Ocean, and for eleven days Commander Rodgers and his crew were presumed to be lost, until they were rescued by United States Navy submarine R-4, on September 10th, ten miles from Kauai Island, and towed to the island. Serving as flight commander and navigator, Commander Rodgers was accompanied by pilot Lieutenant B. J. Connell, copilot, S. R. Pope, radioman O. G. Stanz, and mechanic W. H. Bowlin. |
The 1927 Rohrbach RO V Rocco flying boat, with aircraft registration number D-1261. Powered by two Rolls-Royce Condor engines, it had a crew of three and could carry 10 passengers. |
A Sikorsky S-39 flying boat, with registration number NC55V, in Varney Air Ferries service! |
A Wright Model B-1 Hydroaeroplane. |
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A seaplane, in American military service, during 1920! |
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Washington, 1974-1985.
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Encyclopedia of World Aircraft, Barnes & Noble, New York, 2002.
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Dorling Kindersley Limited, London, 2001.
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Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, 1979.
Kenneth
Munson, Fighters 1914-1919, Macmillan Publishing Company, New York,
1976.
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Munson, German War Birds From World War I to NATO Ally, New Orchard
Editions, New York, 1986.
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Sharpe, Biplanes, Triplanes and Seaplanes, Friedman/Fairfax Publishers,
New York, 2000.
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Atlantic, NC-4 Anniversary Committee, Washington, 1969.
Year, Flight, Year, Los Angeles, 1953.
A Cessna seaplane! |
A painting of German military seaplanes, by Hans Schulze, from around 1915. |
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