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Subject: 
 Pontoon Plane revisited
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Date: 
 Fri, 12 Nov 1999 23:37:51 GMT
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Take a look at the picture of Vickers Vedette, a pontton plane designed in
1920's: <http://www.canadianflight.org/gallery/rbr_o04.htm>.

Now take another look at 5925 Pontoon Plane. Does its design look more
reasonable now?

(When I got my 5925, I put its engines backward to make it a pusher design,
because even though 5925 has two engines instead of one, somehow it still
reminded me of Vickers Vedette.)

An introduction to Vickers Vedette:
<http://www.totavia.com/aeroware/aircraft/vedette.htm>.

Links to more pictures of Vickers Vedette:
<http://aviart.tcel.com/p-vedet.htm>
<http://www.nmstc.ca/nam/educ/namedu/vvad.htm>
<http://www.bushplane.com/gallery/set01/photo01.jpg>
<http://www.chapleau.com/hk/hk5.jpg>

Cheers,
Hao-yang Wang



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  Re: Pontoon Plane revisited
 
Aha, it looks as if the fuselage itself is a third pontoon, and supposed to be in the water. :) Does this mean Joseph has to re-evaluate his assessment? -- Paul Davidson, aka Tinman (URL) "If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you (...) (25 years ago, 13-Nov-99, to lugnet.adventurers)

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