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Recent seaplane sightseeing video about Dubai. This monumental city has become iconic for its special-shaped artificial islands, skyscrapers and high-rise buildings, in particular the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa.
UPDATE Firefighter helicopter flew back to help the crash-landed seaplane. One of the pilots of the helicopter says:
A few days sightseeing tour possible in Liuzhou, South China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The Cessna 208 Caravan amphibious seaplanes take off from the river to boost local tourism industry.
Austrian and German company united Chinese financial backgrounds and finally will be a new European seaplane, the Dornier Seastar. After thirty years of this seaplane first taking off its production will start and according to the plans this summer Dornier present the first series product Seastar amphibious aircraft.
The new startup BLADE is taking the New Yorker’s high society to the beach with seaplanes and helicopters. Details in the video.
Year-end retrospective. I think, these facts will speed up the seaplanes to spread to the world. Maybe a new seaplane golden age will be soon?
Update. After two weeks the water taxi test Burt Rutan’s SkiGull was its maiden flight from Coeur d’Alene airport today. In new hangar at this airport Rutan’s team is developing the aircraft that will operate at water, snow and unimproved land also.
The seaplanes have become indispensable to extinguish forest fires. This compilation shows the firefighter seaplane types that are in the vicinity of the forest taking up water for extinguishing forest fires all over the world today.
