Sea planes
Jul 26, 2007 | 6:10 pm
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Jul 26, 2007 | 6:11 pm
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Jul 26, 2007 | 6:15 pm
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Jul 26, 2007 | 6:33 pm
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Kenmore Air in Seattle flies to the San Juan Islands, the Olympic Peninsula, Victoria, and Vancouver, BC. among other destinations.
http://www.kenmoreair.com/index.php
Kenmore flies rebuilt deHavilland Beaver Seaplanes, pictures are here: http://www.kenmoreair.com/sub_conten...ontent_type=29
http://www.kenmoreair.com/index.php
Kenmore flies rebuilt deHavilland Beaver Seaplanes, pictures are here: http://www.kenmoreair.com/sub_conten...ontent_type=29
Jul 26, 2007 | 6:55 pm
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My terminology:
That is, they are similar, but not synonymous.
P.S. A couple of years ago, I got to sit right-seat on a flight of a Kenmore Air float plane from Victoria to Seattle. Way cool!!!
- A sea plane is an airplane with an airframe (fuselage) that has been explicitly designed to float when it is in water (as well being designed to take off from and land on water).
- A float plane is typically a conventional airplane where the landing gear of the original design (e.g., wheels or skids) has been replaced with float gear for floating on water (as well as for taking off from and landing on water).
That is, they are similar, but not synonymous.
P.S. A couple of years ago, I got to sit right-seat on a flight of a Kenmore Air float plane from Victoria to Seattle. Way cool!!!
Jul 26, 2007 | 7:11 pm
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Jul 26, 2007 | 9:12 pm
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Ken Follet's "Night Over Water", perhaps?? Not a bad yarn, it involved a Pan American Clipper flight.
Jul 26, 2007 | 10:58 pm
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Are you objecting to something in the Vancouver Harbour Control Tower article or just ranting for the fun of it? Every stat in that particular article seems to be backed up by references as far as I can see.
Jul 27, 2007 | 2:05 am
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I've been flying Seaborne Airlines a fair bit lately, and the first flight is a little weird, but I've gotten accustomed to it. Since they started flying to Virgin Gorda, it's become the easiest way for me to get to Virgin Gorda. Flight 220 connecting to 531 or 535. I'd rather fly them than take Speedy's ferry across the Francis Drake Channel from EIS... and much more than flying Air Sunshine. Seaborne is out of Old San Juan which is much easier for me to get to than SJU, so that saves me a lot of time.
Jul 27, 2007 | 3:37 am
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Jul 27, 2007 | 4:00 am
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There is a company doing seaplanes (or float planes) in Scotland:
http://www.lochlomondseaplanes.com/index.html
Never tried it, but they said on the news that it was brilliant fun.
http://www.lochlomondseaplanes.com/index.html
Never tried it, but they said on the news that it was brilliant fun.
Jul 27, 2007 | 8:02 am
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I've sometimes wondered about this. The Greek sea planes according to the story I linked to in the OP have a co-pilot. Don't all commercial aircraft have to have a co-pilot? Or is there some size below which they don't? The risks in having only one pilot seem obvious, and I'm not sure I'd like to fly in a plane without a co-pilot.
Jul 27, 2007 | 9:08 am
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I've booked many many hours on floats and in real "seaplanes," in my case marvelous old Grumman Gooses (Geese?) with two honking radial engines and crank-me-up-crank-me-down landing gear for amphib operations. Wonderful old buckets of bolts. You'll never have as stirring a takeoff as you will in a Goose off the water in an Aleutian bay, with Orcas swimming like demons to get out of the way. Woo hoo.