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The EAA Airventure Oshkosh, which is the world’s largest light aircraft pilot meeting, was held on the end of July in the USA. Two promising and innovative seaplanes of the recent years run against each other for the customers’ favour.
After you arrive at Maldives International Airport and await your seaplane transfer to your island getaway, you get to chillax in the new VIP seaplane lounge that gives out a number of freebies.
This photo about parking seaplane in front of the Royal Castle in Stockholm was taken by Jann Lipka in 2009 summer.
The Shin Meiwa PS-1 / US-1 is a four-engine maritime-patrol aircraft and search- and rescue (SAR) flying boat produced by the Japanese manufacturer Shin Meiwa Industry Company Limited, today ShinMaywa Industries, Ltd., operated by the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force.
This year’s Aero was held last week, amongst weak presence of seaplanes: of the major manufacturers only Icon Aircraft had a stand, but they didn’t display an actual aircraft.
A replica and a radio controlled model evoke Sikorsky’s amphibia from the early Thirties.
David Allen reporter of Other People’s Airplanes heads on over to the Splash-In to watch airplanes land on the beautiful waters of Lake Agnes in Florida.
Photos from ICON’s most recent “lake day” of hydro testing to test the water performance of the A5 at various weights.
In the interview Iren Dornier, facility-owner and flying boat-pilot is talking about her grandfather and the historical airplanes of the Dornier-family. He is also referring to the renewal of the Do-24 and their own-developed, two-seated seaplane, the Dornier S-Ray007.
100 years ago Monaco was the scene of the world’s first seaplane meeting, attended by seven biplanes, in March 1912.
