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Possibly the world’s pointiest jet

Loser X-Planes

Every research aircraft poses a question. Sometimes the answer is "forget it."
August 2011 | By The Editors

F/A 18V

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

When the twin-engine America proved underpowered, Curtiss added a third engine. It worked on Keuka Lake, but fuel consumption proved too high for an Atlantic crossing.

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

The 1912 Model F flying boat, which Curtiss sold to the U.S. Army.

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

The Bv 138 attacked convoys, resupplied U-boats, and swept for mines mostly in Scandinavian waters.

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

U.S. Navy PBYs flew in every theater of the Pacific War, their long range ideal for patrolling the waters from the Solomon Islands to the Aleutian Islands.

Restoration: Going the Distance

The ninth life of a PBY-5A Cat.
January 2003 | By Phil Scott

Seafarers

Bathing beauties from the time when aircraft first crossed oceans.
January 2003 | By Illustrations by Ian Marshall

Now departing Paradise...All day long, Chalk’s amphibious Grumman Mallards shuttle tourists in and out of Paradise Island and other Bahamian destinations.

Chalk's Ocean Airways

Since 1919, this little airline has managed to keep its head above water
January 2003 | By Henry Scammell

ShinMaywa’s US-1A, cleansed of the corrosive sea after every mission, continues an ancestral line of flying boats.

Giant Amphibian

Japan has one godzilla of a seaplane.
January 2003 | By Tim Wright

In 1957 midshipmen launched an N3N from the Severn River in Annapolis.

In the Museum: Sailors' Delight

November 2002 | By Roger A. Mola

A rugged amphibian, the Grumman G-21 served both commercial airlines and militaries alike.  The U.S. Coast Guard flew the JRF version as a transport and anti-submarine aircraft.

In the Museum: Beautiful Goose

May 2001 | By F. Robert van der Linden

In the Museum: The Japanese Connection

January 2001 | By Topper Sherwood

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


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