• nocturne@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    11 days ago

    I did a model of one of these when i was a kid. Really neat plane.

    It has landing gear that fold up into the pontoon.

    • JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.eeOPMEnglish
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      11 days ago

      So… is it like a single-blade skater on ice, so to speak?

      Usually I think of aqueous planes having two points of landing-on-water stability, but I guess these had… a main ‘blade’ under the main structure, then two smaller steadying blades, out under the wings?

      This has got to be either pure genius or pure lunacy, no? (lol)

      • nocturne@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        11 days ago

        Itt is like a katamaran, having, like you said, the single large bit in the middle, then the two smaller bits on the wings.

        I remember when i was building the model kit thinking the main fuselage looked like a wooden clog… Then I attached wings to it.