seaplane pilots' model code of conduct
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Seaplane: A water-based aircraft with a boat-hull fuselage, often amphibious. The term is also used generically to define a similar Flying Boat and a pontoon Floatplane.
Seaplane
A seaplane is a fixed-wing aircraft designed to take off and land (or "alight") upon water.
Seaplane An airplane that has floats, or pontoons, attached to allow it to land on water.
Servo The radio component which does the work of moving a control surface.
Seaplane: A generic term covering all aeroplanes which can take off from and alight on the sea. It includes both flying-boats and floatplanes.
Secondary Depression: The small area of low pressure which accompanies a large depression.
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The gull wing design found its way into seaplanes by the early 1930s. As engine power increased, so did the need for large propellers that could effectively convert power to thrust.
Seaplane imageSome aircraft have advanced equipment like jet engines, retractable landing gear, floats, or other special features that require the pilots and flight crew to receive specialized training.
SEAPLANE - A heavier-than-air craft which operates from water, and is supported on the surface of the water by floats.
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seaplane, 6.1.4, 8.11, 12.9.5
seat of the pants, intro, 4, 11.5.4, 11.5.4, 16.6, 19.5
seat of the pants: See also touch (perception), intro
see and avoid: See traffic, 16.2
seed, 18.6.2
semicircular canals: See balance (perception), intro ...
The Hydro-airplane (or "Seaplane").-From analogy to the airplane one might at first imagine that a suitable h~ydroplane would have a wide span and fore and aft length; but such proportion would give a very poor stability on the water, ...
2A could maneuver quite well, and was an opponent treated with a healthy respect by enemy seaplane fighters. By various improvisations some Felixstowe F.
Floats are slender pontoons mounded under the fuselage of floatplanes (a type of seaplane). In normal operations only the floats of a floatplane come into contact with water and the fuselage remains above the water.
Thomas Benoist, an auto parts maker, decided to build such a flying boat, or seaplane, to initiate air service across Tampa Bay called the St. Petersburg-Tampa Air Boat Line. His first passenger was ex-St. Petersburg Mayor A.C.
Given this 50:1 advantage, floatplanes or seaplanes make a lot of sense; there are many places you can land, plus you can reach interesting locations you never considered in a land plane.
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Reginald J. Mitchell developed a racing seaplane, the Supermarine S6B, which won the Schneider Trophy on 13th September, 1931. During the contest the aircraft reached 340 mph (547 km/h).
AIRPORT/FACILITY DIRECTORY- A publication designed primarily as a pilot's operational manual containing all airports, seaplane bases, and heliports open to the public including communications data, navigational facilities, ...
In the early days of airliners, because there were no runways long enough for really big airplanes, large seaplanes were built to cross the ocean. The Boeing 314 and Martin Clipper are two of these neat airplanes called "flying boats.
Penaud's incredible 1876 design for a seaplane with retractable landing gear ...
rating - add-on qualification to a pilot's licence, e.g. Night Rating, Multi-engine Rating, Instrument Rating, Seaplane Rating etc. Individual Type Ratings are necessary to fly aircraft over 12,500 pounds MTWA.
Howard Hughes, for whose Hughes Aircraft Company this airport is named, is probably best known for his reputation as one of the richest, most eccentric, and most reclusive men in America, as well as for his mammoth seaplane The Spruce Goose, ...
and (2) As used with respect to the certification of aircraft, means a broad grouping of aircraft having similar characteristics of propulsion, flight, or landing. Examples include: airplane; rotorcraft; glider; balloon; landplane; and seaplane.
 See also: Plane, Aircraft, Aviation, Flight, Pilot
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