In another life I’d love to be a float plane delivery guy, dropping off toilet paper and beer to people living in bum fuck nowhere, and maybe doing some lite smuggling on the side. I’d have a handle like “Buck” or “Otter” and have a big beard.
Beaver, Canadian plane
Those little pond skippers are fun as hell, but using them to get to a camp at 3am is nightmare material at times lmao
What why would you do that
There’s no lights on the pond???
Shift change at 5. You don’t have much option.
The De Havilland Otter is objectively the best seaplane.
Not to get too “um akshually” with your distinction between floatplane vs. seaplane, but I’d contest that the Otter is the best floatplane; PBY-2 Catalina best seaplane, don’t tell me having one of those converted into a mobile home & chilling on a south pacific atoll isn’t the dream
I can agree with that, especially growing up watching Tail Spin
I had a model pby-2 when I was a kid. I loved that thing so much.
How recently did you watch Porco Rosso?
In another life
Ditto. And I already have the big beard.
In other news - in everyday language - are the words “floatplane” and “seaplane” used interchangeably?
Rant. I googled but google and google images just wasted my time. Gah.
https://www.skytough.com/post/seaplane-vs-floatplane/
A floatplane is a seaplane, but not necessarily the other way around.
I knew a guy nicknamed “Corn” once.
if I could have any nickname I wanted, it would be something like Tater, Ox or Neckbone.
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