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12-13-2004, 11:50 PM
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| Yeah, it's a nice plane, but I think the appearance to be rather, ahem, dated... | 
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12-14-2004, 12:40 AM
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#152 | | "Shooter"
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Country:  | The AN-2 isn't fast, but it is big and it has amazing STOL capability. I watched one take off in a REAL short distance from Camarillo. Not as good as the Fiesler Storch, but the AN-2 can carry a whole lot more!
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12-14-2004, 01:33 PM
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#153 | | Master of Ewes
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12-14-2004, 03:16 PM
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12-15-2004, 02:12 PM
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#155 | | Master of Ewes
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12-15-2004, 02:55 PM
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#156 | | He who does not skim
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12-15-2004, 02:59 PM
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Country: | Yeah, its basically an American equivalent of Soviet Eraknoplanes, as GrG said, so thats things like the Caspian Sea Monster. Those planes have been around a while, I dont consider them unconventional...
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12-15-2004, 03:05 PM
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#158 | | He who does not skim
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Country: | I've seen the "Caspian Sea Monster", and I agree that it's fairly conventional. Very big for a sea plane, though! | |
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12-15-2004, 03:34 PM
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Country: | They just glide along the surface of the sea at high speed...I love em!
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12-15-2004, 04:05 PM
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#160 | | Hairy one of Old Judea
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Country:  | Actually they are not sea planes. They are WIG planes, they use ground effect to stay in the air and their ceiling is imited by the wing-size.
Though they can land on the water they are actually more like an extension of the hovercraft.
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12-15-2004, 04:13 PM
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12-17-2004, 02:56 PM
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#162 | | Master of Ewes
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12-17-2004, 03:01 PM
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12-17-2004, 03:02 PM
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#164 | | Master of Ewes
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12-17-2004, 03:02 PM
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#165 | | He who does not skim
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Originally Posted by kiwimac Actually they are not sea planes. They are WIG planes, they use ground effect to stay in the air and their ceiling is imited by the wing-size.
Though they can land on the water they are actually more like an extension of the hovercraft.
Kiwimac | Uh...yeah...yeah, I knew that...yeah...  :-"  | |
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