| Tango01 | 09 Jul 2015 10:45 p.m. PST |
… to be true.
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Armand |
| jpattern2 | 09 Jul 2015 11:44 p.m. PST |
Too cool! I love what-if models. |
| BattlerBritain | 10 Jul 2015 2:38 a.m. PST |
From my days on working on C-130s apparently a Herc is just about impossible to ditch safely. Hence I can imagine any Herc crews seeing this and shouting "Noooo!!!!"  |
| Mad Mecha Guy | 10 Jul 2015 6:07 a.m. PST |
The first one would work, see the WW2 British designs. Not sure about the pontoon design as those would have lousy drag or the pontoons too small. Regards |
| Fatman | 10 Jul 2015 6:26 a.m. PST |
BattlerBritain
Your dropping a dustbin with wings, at speed, onto water. What could go wrong? ;-) Fatman |
| BattlerBritain | 10 Jul 2015 6:48 a.m. PST |
Yep  |
| Lion in the Stars | 10 Jul 2015 7:16 a.m. PST |
I've seen how big the floats are for a DC3:
The Edo Corporation, of College Point, N.Y. designed, and built twin, 1-ton floats, (the largest floats ever built). Each float was 42 feet long, five feet, eight inches wide, and displaced 29,000 pounds of water. The cellular construction of each float had 14 separate water-tight compartments. Each float also had a 325 gallon fuel tank. The floats had fully retractable, hydraulic wheels, and could land on water, snow or land. The float rudders were connected to the air rudder. The floats for a C130 would be about the size of a DC3's (or PBY's) fuselage! |
| jpattern2 | 10 Jul 2015 8:27 a.m. PST |
Love the DC-3 floatplane. There are 1/72 conversions kits out there for it, or there used to be.
Photo with some people for scale:
Yes, the Herc floats would have been *huge*. |
| Lion in the Stars | 10 Jul 2015 7:01 p.m. PST |
While a C130 floatplane earns a very large "HELL no!!!" from me, I'd trust a seaplane version. However, I'd want nose doors, not a rear ramp. |
| tuscaloosa | 11 Jul 2015 8:11 p.m. PST |
Wow. Anyone with better Google fu than I who can find a video of a DC-3 landing on the water with floats? |
| jpattern2 | 11 Jul 2015 8:30 p.m. PST |
Here you go: YouTube link Right around the 4:50 mark. Listen to those radials! |
| Tango01 | 11 Jul 2015 11:36 p.m. PST |
Thanks for share!. Amicalement
Armand |
 Legion 4  | 13 Jul 2015 3:08 p.m. PST |
I only jumped out of them … I don't fly'm … to paraphrase Oddball !!!!  |
| tuscaloosa | 14 Jul 2015 8:36 p.m. PST |
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| jpattern2 | 15 Jul 2015 7:33 a.m. PST |
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