We bring seaplane aviation closer to people
New models have been introduced from Beriev, the World’s biggest and outmost seaplane producer company. We begin their presentation with the Beriev 112 multi task amphibia.
A Swiss educated aircraft engineer, who worked on the development of the Concorde, then moved to Canada to the DeHavilland Company and finally in 1973 from the anagram of his name established the garage sized Zenith Aircraft Company in the United States.
We have been on the three biggest European Seaplane festivals during the past year, a few thoughts and pictures from the past.
A slightly more than 100 thousand dollars a two seater seaplane is on the sale in Los Angeles. The speciality of this plane is that its wing can be folded, so it is possible to store it in a garage or to transport it on a trailer like a motorboat.
Iren Dornier is an very important person in the Scalaria Air Challenge, we made an interview with him on his new two seater plane and the European water flying.
Somebody has found these pictures on the website stipistop.com. It is still beautiful despite its condition. We crown these photos with a video of a Catalina, which is still in operation.
There has been the first German Seaplane Day near Tries on the first weekend of September, which was almost washed away by torrential rains. Here comes the first part of our report on this event.
A Piper 18PA Super Cub was the guest of the Scalaria event. The plane is presented by its pilot.
It is a rare possibility for a grandchild to resurrect his grandfather’s legendary plane. Iren Dornier renewed a Dornier Do-24 ATT seaplane then flew around the world with it. He has been using this plane since then. When we took these pictures the amphibia rested on the water of the Wolfgangsee in Austria in front of the Scalaria Hotel.
Gelendzhik is a Russian sea resort at the Black Sea, where in September 2008 the Gidroaviosalon exhibition and presentation has been organized for the seventh time.
