Seaplanes
Loser X-Planes
Every research aircraft poses a question. Sometimes the answer is "forget it."
August 2011 |
By The Editors
100 Years of Naval Aviation
The Navy's first pilot and 10 more milestones.
March 2011 |
By The Editors
Photo Essay:The Blakesburg Fly-In
Antique airplanes—the cream of the crop—fluttered around corn country to celebrate an air mail birthday.
November 18, 2008 |
By airspacemag.com
The Big Gulp
The world’s largest seaplane fights wildfires in California.
July 30, 2008 |
By Tom LeCompte
America the Cruisable
The seaplane Glenn Curtiss designed in 1914 may have had trouble on the ocean, but its reproduction is delighting a whole town on a lake.
March 2008 |
By James Wynbrandt
Glenn Curtiss Slept Here
Has Hammondsport, New York, done right by its most famous citizen?
July 2006 |
By Phil Scott
Jump in a Lake
At the Moosehead Lake seaplane fly-in, the dress is casual, the rules are bent, the competition is crazy, and the scenery is Maine.
May 2006 |
By airspacemag.com
Fork-tailed Devils and Flying Shoes
What does the Northrop P-61 have in common with Burt Rutan's SpaceShipOne?
January 2005 |
By Mark Gatlin
The People and Planes of Friday Harbor
Time and tide wait for no man, but they seem to linger a little around the flying paradise of the San Juan Islands.
May 2004 |
By Tom Harpole
Seafarers
Bathing beauties from the time when aircraft first crossed oceans.
January 2003 |
By Illustrations by Ian Marshall
Chalk's Ocean Airways
Since 1919, this little airline has managed to keep its head above water
January 2003 |
By Henry Scammell
When Ships Have Wings
The bigger they are, the better they fly. And they're made in Russia.
January 1996 |
By Craig Mellow
The Schneider Trophy
It began as the prize for a seaplane race. It ended as the symbol of a contest among nations that foreshadowed war.
June 1988 |
By Ron Dick
