We bring seaplane aviation closer to people
Longtime resident pilot and aircraft designer Iren Dornier—grandson of Claude Dornier, World War II pioneering designer of military aircraft for Germany’s Luftwaffe, is behind the $350-million project, along with some foreign partners who are known 25-seat amphibious aircraft for various uses manufacturers in Clark.
This is the next video from Finland. Captain Risto Paajanen’s seaplane, the Black Demon anyway Maule MX-235 is a fourseater amphibian which we will splash in a nearby pond under the Finnish seaplane meeting.
Captain Ilkka Terttunen introducing his COMCO Ikarus 42 twoseater ultralight seaplane. On the picture the Captain gives me swim vest.
Our first video from Hauho. Follow the saturday afternoon flight from the lead aircraft with Jorma Harju, the the president of the finnish association at the controls.
Last wekeend we went to a seaplane meeting in Hauho, Finland, it was in 2011 the XXXVI. Splash In of the Sea- and Skiplane Association of Finland (SSAF).
In July, 2011 Dale Kramer took off from a field behind his house, and made the first ever landing on water with an electric-powered amphibia after a 7 minutes long maiden flight.
We received a placard from Dr. Anna Ács, who is a museologist from Balatonfüred, Hungary. The placard indicates a floatplane and a flight-guide around Lake Balaton. In the 1920’s the seaplane-activity was prosperous around Lake Balaton.
There is a small but soulful community in Austria, the IG RC Wasserflug Wien-Niederösterreich. The members are all fans of radio-controlled/electronic seaplanes.
In this article we would like to introduce the UC-1 Twin Bee amphibian, an upgraded version of an old, post-world-war hydroplane from the ’40s.
