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The Lake manufactured
'boats series have not featured on this site to any great degree
I've just realised, so I'm going to put that right over the next few
updates, starting with this superbly detailed walk-round from
long-time USA-based correspondent
Vladimir Yakubov
of a
Lake
LA-4A Buccaneer.
Vladimir is a member
of the Silicon
Valley Scale Modelers Club
based in Milpitas,
California and details of their meetings can be found in the Gallery
text.
Grateful thanks to
Vladimir, as ever.
To add to the theme,
here is a small image series from Russian-based correspondent
Victor Khmelik
of a lovely
Lake
LA-4-200 Buccaneer. Thanks, Victor.
Finally today, I have
uploaded 103
individual images
sent in by some of our correspondents of these lovely 'boats and
formed the Lake Photo Gallery.
Thanks to all the photographers and enjoy the collection..!
If
YOU
have any other Lake images, please send them into SEAWINGS for
inclusion here.
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Today's update comes
from our long-time SEAWINGS supporter, German-based
correspondent
Axel Ganz
who paid a visit to see this beautifully restored
Grumman J2F-6 Duck Bu.No. N1196N on display at the
EAA Museum, Oshkosh,
USA and then
sent in this detailed, colourful walk-round for us to enjoy.
Grateful thanks, Axel.
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Today I have added
eight more complete article pdf's into the
Out-Of-Print Articles Gallery
ranging from the superb 'Per Mare Probare' series in
Aeroplane Monthly from the late '80's to the equally superb
'Post-War Propliners' series from the same publication together with
'gems' found in early copies of FLIGHT, all of which should provide
something for everyone to enjoy.
My thanks goes to
correspondent
Patrick Hore
for his invaluable assistance with this particular update.
If anyone has
access to copies of the flying boat related articles from the two
series mentioned above, I would love to receive a pdf of them to
complete the series as I don't have them all as yet.
Finally for today,
I have added another 61 detailed images of the
Supermarine Walrus Mk.I L2301
on display in the
Fleet Air Arm Museum,
Yeovilton, England,
always one of the nicest museums to visit. I enjoyed yet another
encounter with this stunning example of a classic biplane flying
boat, and this time courtesy of the very helpful staff, I was
permitted to 'jump the rope' and put my camera inside a window to
get the interior detail shots as best I could. Grateful thanks,
Guys.
One day, as a
'bucket list' jobbie, I would love to actually get inside her with
my camera.....
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Here is a real
treat..! Alex
Norton one of
our longest-time correspondents has made a number of visits to the
Canadian
Warplane Heritage Museum
in Ontario, Canada and
when there always makes a stop at the superbly restored and
flying PBY-5A Canso
named 'Mary K' just to shoot fantastic walk-rounds for
SEAWINGS, for which I am more than grateful.
Today, I have combined
two of them to produce a stunningly detailed Gallery which will
answer most questions on the exterior of a typical Canso and also
may inspire a scale model or two to be built along the way,
hopefully..!
Alex, sometimes
'thank you' just isn't enough....what an absolutely cracking job
you have made of these....!
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I make no excuse for
tonight's up-date featuring again the beautiful
Sikorsky JRS-1 -
the military version of the S-43 'Baby Clipper' - and one of a very
small number of original Pearl Harbour attack survivors from 7th
December, 1941 that actually flew against the Japanese attackers on
that day.
Long-time SEAWINGS correspondent Igor Kolokolov visited the
Steven F.
Udvar-Hazy Centre
at the NASM
and shot a quite stunning walk-round which complements perfectly the
existing WR from Alex Norton, together providing the perfect
combination of detailed images of this historic 'boat.
My grateful thanks
goes out to
Igor once
again...!
Next up is a
stunning and fascinating document; the
Short Solent 3 Maintenance Manual. Just remember, this has
been written, drawn and compiled
without
the assistance of any
computer program....everything you see within it is pre-computer age
and was drafted with consummate typewriting and drafting (drawing
with pen) skill. Fantastic, just fantastic.....from an age where
there existed pure hand skills..! And, look at all that
detail on the Solent 3..!
The link will take
you to the Manual page; scroll down to the Short Solent 3 link and
click on it.
Finally, to add to
all that detail, correspondent
Cees Hendriks
visited the Solent 3
preserved and on display at Oakland in the USA and has very kindly
granted permission to show his superb walk-round which includes
the interior..! Thanks, Cees; much appreciated.
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I admit it's
been far too long for this latest up-date. Nothing intrinsically
wrong at this end except that events kept getting in the way;
multiple and varied family stuff, the 'day job', the hottest summer
months ever on record in my lifetime (I found out one can't do
bugger-all in that extremely hot intense heat much to my surprise,
as I always wanted a bright, sunny summer but that was
ridiculous; too hot outside, too hot to sit inside, too hot to make
models, just too damn hot to do anything), added to a host of
other reasonable excuses that brings me to today.!
So, please accept
my sincere apologies for the lack of up-dates, but of course the
main thing is that all the bills were paid and the website has
remained available to all for viewing and my grateful thanks goes to
all the Guy's n' Girls listed in the Donations notification above.
Thanks so much for really making the difference....but, as ever the
reference material never stopped coming in.!
Ok, all that said,
let's get cracking again and first up is a gorgeous walk-round of a
Ranger
6-440C-5 (200bhp) engine - the one fitted to the Grumman
Widgeon, courtesy of long-time correspondent
Vladimir Yakubov.
Next up is a lovely
walk-round of a
Beriev Be-103
by Yuri Pasholok from Russia featuring one that was
displayed at the MAKS 2003 Air Show in Russia. This is actually a
decent looking craft that needs more exposure to the world.! My
thanks goes to Yuri.
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Further to
the above donation panel, my grateful thanks goes to the readers who
have very kindly provided a donation to the 'SEAWINGS hosting fund'
so far this year. If anyone else fancies placing a donation, there
are two major expenses coming up next month that simply have
to be paid......
Today's up-date is
another fabulous walk-round from the camera of our Dutch
correspondent
Cees Hendriks
who got up close to this stunning
Sikorsky S-38
replica and very kindly granted permission for them to be displayed
on SEAWINGS. Grateful thanks, Cees.
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Happy
Easter to all of you 'out there'.
First-up today is a
lovely walk-round of the World's only preserved
Loening OA-1A I
found by accident on the internet and just had to show it. If it is
yours, please get in-touch.
Next up, by pure
chance here is another walk-round that I found by accident whilst
looking for something else and it features a
PBY-6A Catalina
example that has not appeared on SEAWINGS prior to now, so I
just had to show it..!
Again, if this is
your image set, please get in-touch with me.
I found a few
R.A.A.F. Supermarine Southampton Mk.I
photo's the other day that are perfect for scale modellers wanting
to add detail to their builds. What a gorgeous looking series of
'boats they were with their wooden hulls.
Continuing the
'additional images' theme from past What's New's, I've come across a
superb walk-round set featuring the World's only surviving
PBM-5A Martin Mariner
restored and on display at the
Pima Country Air
Museum, Arizona,
and have added them to complement the existing large Gallery; one
never knows when one extra photo will give you the exact detail you
are seeking for that model..!
Finally for today,
completing the 'additions to' series is a magnificent walk-round
shot by our Dutch correspondent
Cees Hendriks
of Grumman
HU-16E Albatross USCG '1293' which I have added to the
existing gallery. Grateful thanks for your permission, Cees.
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I'm
still catching up from the hard-drive failure (31st Dec 2017) but
things are getting better weekly, I'm pleased to say.
That's the main reason
for slow up-dates since the last one; I'm receiving good reference
material into me but I have needed to concentrate on the
'behind-the-scenes' stuff to ensure that all runs smoothly which has
been taking my available time.
However, I've put
this up-date together and present:
Firstly, a really
nice set of images found 'on-the-web' whilst I was researching one
morning and immediately thought, 'this would make an cracking
detailed diorama'...a Beriev Be-6 (one of my favourites) in a
striking 'pose' which I have added to the
Diorama Gallery..... At least it's
been preserved, of sorts...!
....and, secondly
another 102 new images of the Bombardier/Canadair CL-215T in the
CL-215 Photo Gallery. Be careful not to mix this variant up with the
CL-415 as they look so similar as far as the engine nacelles are
concerned.! You can find them all in the
CL-215 Photo Gallery.
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So, with
everything running ok - so far - tonight I have
added to last night's up-date with 83 No. images I shot
whilst visiting the
Floyd Bennett
Field Hanger 'B'
of the same
Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina and this includes
a full
interior walk-through(!)
which is extremely rare as there is absolutely nothing
installed into this airframe, so one can view the entire fit
of internal ribs, stringers and bulkheads with associated
fixings without any visual interference from fitted
equipment.
All I can remember
is how hot it was in there at the time; I came out sweating, I can
tell you..!
If YOU have sent any
emails into me - Bryan Ribbans - in October, November and December
2017 would you PLEASE re-send them as everyone of them disappeared in the
p.c. hard drive crash, as detailed below.
I know there were some
first-class photo attachments, plans and drawings and much more
within all of the emails that have been lost and you can imagine my
desperate desire to 're-find' them and save them for posterity. Many
thanks, Bryan.
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Tonight's up-date is a
small, but very nice one, serving the purpose to entertain you all
and at the same time confirm to me that all is well with the systems
I have re-installed and have running since the hard drive failure as
per below. So
far, so good.
It's another from
the camera of correspondent
Igor Kolokolov
from Moscow and features the
Catalina PBY-5A at
Floyd Bennett Field,
New York state, USA.
Thanks, Igor.
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SPECIAL NOTICE
On 30th December last, without any warning
whatsoever, I suffered a complete and total computer hard drive
failure right in-front of my eyes whilst using my pc. It was
instant, total and irrecoverable.
I have since begun to restore
all the elements that make up SEAWINGS and everything that I use to
produce it; fortunately I backed up everything that was important -
or so I thought - on Christmas Day and have since purchased a
replacement HD, a pc overhaul and all the lost programs not saved on
disc, a total of over £750.00 so far.
BUT, I have lost some very
important information and attachments to emails that I received
prior to the crash, sadly. They were in a 'holding' folder on my
desktop as there had been so many in a short time, unusually.
So, if YOU have sent any
emails into me - Bryan Ribbans - in October, November and December
2017 would you PLEASE re-send them as everyone of them has
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I know there were some
first-class photo attachments, plans and drawings and much more
within all of the emails that have been lost and you can imagine my
desperate desire to 're-find' them and save them for posterity.
I am currently taking all the
steps necessary to ensure that this never, ever happens again. It is
the first - and last - time this will ever happen to me; a well-used
hard drive lasts around three years I am told, but there was no
excuse for losing information, that's down to me and a failure to
back-up everything......hind-sight is a wonderful thing.
So, if there is anything YOU
can do to assist me, NOW is the time to do it please..!
Grateful thanks, Bryan Ribbans
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It has been a strange
(or, should that be strained....) time this year at Christmas
as I have just suffered complete and total mainframe computer hard
drive failure since the last up-date, which has caused all sorts of
issues and re-thinks about how all my computer work is done from
here-on. My grateful thanks goes to all that have offered their
advice on Facebook as to what should be done, and how.
The good news is
that no flying boat archive reference material was lost, nor the
website files, etc so we are still in business..!
Today's up-date
is a small addition to the existing
Walk-Round Gallery
courtesy of correspondent
Igor Kolokolov
for the
Grumman J2F-6 Duck so
that I can confirm that all programs have been restored on my laptop
to keep us going whilst the pc repair crew work on my mainframe.
Just for good
measure, I've added another small walk-round today to double-check
that all the required systems are working; this time it's
Alex Norton's
24 No. image series of the
Grumman J2F-6 Duck on display at the
Erickson Aircraft
Collection, Madras, Oregon, USA.
My grateful thanks goes to Alex.
In the meantime, do
have a great
New Year's Day
and here's to all of you having a
Happy New Year 2018.
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Christmas has come
early for us lucky flying boat enthusiasts this year..!
Today's up-date
represents a massive walk-round 'tour-de-force' by our
long-time walk-round specialist correspondent,
Alex Norton.
Alex very recently
paid a second visit to the
Smithsonian Museum's
Restoration Facility
in Washington,
USA following
his first in 2014 and has shot a magnificent series of close-up
images of the beautiful
Sikorsky JRS-1 -
the military version of the S-43 'Baby Clipper' - and one of a very
small number of original Pearl Harbour attack survivors from 7th
December, 1941 that actually flew against the Japanese attackers on
that day.
He has also very
thoughtfully provided, not one, but
TWO
image series; one 'as shot' and the second 'colour
corrected', this to compensate for the lighting/colour
conditions within the display hall which left a blue-ish
'colour cast', these new series added to his original one from 2014,
amounts to a staggering 206 individual images featuring this
'boat...!
However, each
offers superb detailed images for the scale modeler, enthusiast and
historians amongst us, so I have provided both sets and included
Alex's original 2014 walk-round set making this Gallery as
comprehensive as it could possibly be.
Alex, masterful
workmanship here as ever and my very grateful thanks for
everything..!
Message to all -
Enjoy...!!
Finally for today,
I have created the 'Out-of-Print
Book' reference Gallery to provide access to certain long
O.O.P. flying boat reference books that must be considered the very
best in past publication history, ones that are too good to simply
'disappear' for all time. Click the icon at the bottom of the
Index Page
to go to the Gallery.
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Continuing on the
Catalina route from yesterday, I have added extra detailed
walk-round images sent to me by Igor Kolokolov, our Russian-based
long-time correspondent, of the ex.
Danish A.F. PBY-6A 'L-866' on display at
RAF Cosford Museum.
Grateful thanks, Igor.
However, having just
returned there myself recently, I was horrified to find that she had
been removed from within her hanger as I found her sitting in the UK
weather on a concrete base outside, looking forlorn with her
paintwork ruined by the effects of the harsh weather.
Today, L-866 looks
nothing like the glamorous 'Cat' in the walk-round Gallery. Why, Oh
why has this been done..? Why take a perfectly restored aircraft and
'dump' it outside with no protection whatsoever? I thought they were
there to preserve these aircraft, not ruin them..? Disgusting
behaviour by the management.....
On a brighter note,
I have created the
Catalina/Canso Photo Gallery and added to the
Catalina/Canso
Reference Archive
and filled it with
120
superb general images
of 'Cat's & Canso's' doing their thing. As time allows and the
images become available, I will add to it. It presents another
reference resource for the discerning flying boat enthusiast and for
the life of me I cannot recall why I haven't done it before now..!
Enjoy...
Next up, is one of
the finest photographic walk-rounds I have had the pleasure to host
featuring Catalina PBY-5A
'PH-PBY', the ONLY Catalina in Europe that
you can book a flight
in..!
Yes, that's
right...'book a flight in', you did read that correct..!
Check out the
details on the Gallery page and enjoy 194 superb images, including
the interior.
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Today, I
have added another stunning photographic walk-round to the
existing
Consolidated PBY-5 Catalina WR Gallery, this the
'cut-away' display example located at the
USN Navy
Museum, N.A.S. Pensacola, Florida.
This addition makes
coverage of this display more-or-less complete without visiting it
yourself..!
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Apologies for the
delay in up-dates since November, I've had a bad case of 'Man-Flu'
and that just knocked me right out; getting better now, so off we go
again....
First up is this cracking walk-round of a 'boat new to this website;
a
United-Consultants UC-1 Twin Bee courtesy of
Cees Hendriks.
Continuing the
Seabee theme, I recently shot this small walk-round of a completely
'naked'
Republic
RC-3 Seabee on display in the
Tennessee Museum of
Aviation, USA
as it's so difficult to find basic hull 'hulks' that display all the
internal bulkhead and build details; scratch-build modelers
'Gold-Dust'..!
While speaking
about my visit to the
Tennessee Museum of
Aviation, here
is the real reason I called in; this beautiful
Grumman HU-16E Albatross
in all her glory which I set-about capturing in my
147 image
walk-round
I have great pleasure in presenting here.
Finally for today, here's an up-date on one of my favourite 'boats,
the newly restored Consolidated PB2Y-5R
Coronado at the
N.A.S. Pensacola, Florida,
re-visited by our long-time correspondent
Igor Kolokolov
who has very kindly provided
50 images
of it in all her glory and another
17 images
taken from the original
Technical Manual
showing aspects of the interior of the type. Grateful thanks, Igor.
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Today's up-date
features some suitable subjects I found during a recent
visit to the magnificent
Tennessee
Museum of Aviation
near Knoxville, Tenn. USA. First up is a lovely example of
the Liberty V-12
Model 'A' engine as used by the Curtiss H-16 and the
Navy-Curtiss NC-4.
Next up is a lovely
Walk-Round
of a Beriev Be-12 'Mail'
that I stumbled across on 'the web' with no other details. (If this
is YOUR walk-round, please let me know so that I can grant
full credit).
It shows this
iconic amphibian/flying boat in great detail and fully weathered and
to my eye, very attractive. Of all the modern 'boats, this is THE
one I want to get 'up-close-and-personal' with.
For me, there is
something about the design of it that is so attractive I just can't
take my eyes off it..! Enjoy all the details in this lovely
photo-shoot..!
Finally for today,
here is 131 individual images of the
Beriev Be-200
which I have added to the Be-200
Photo Gallery.
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Today's up-date
continues yesterday's theme with more images of the same
Canadair CL-215 at Le Bourget, Paris Airshow found on the
web by me and perfectly complementing yesterday's up-date.
The yellow overall
colour scheme shows perfectly all the details of the airframe for
those building the Heller 1/72 scale kit.
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Today's up-date is a
lovely 51 image walk-round of a
Canadair CL-215 parked at the Paris Airshow, Le Bourget,
France in May 2012 belonging to
Securite Civile,
and captured by
Meindert de Vreeze,
superb..! And look at all that detail that could be added to the
Heller 1/72 scale model.
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One of the things I
have wanted to do for some time is to vary the content of the
'Out-of-Print'
Articles Gallery
as there are some superb publications 'out-there' that are now OOP
but are reasonably modern publications. Tonight's addition is a
perfect example featuring a magazine first published in March 2013,
not now generally available to purchase - unless via ebay or similar
- yet contains within itself a superbly written detailed article on
building the Italeri 1/72 scale
Short Sunderland model kit by
Steve A. Evans.
This article deserves to be saved and read by anyone contemplating
this build.
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I've spent a bit of
time today mending the images in the
Beriev Be-12
'Mail' walk-round gallery uploaded on 24th July last; I
found that some of the images were not performing with their links
as they should, so I re-built the whole gallery. It should be ok
now.
Now here's a real
treat..!
Canadian Consolidated PBY-5A Canso
C-FNJE at the 2017 Edmonton Air Show, Canada visited by our very own
Chris Eldridge - aka
'Dogsbody' on
the Flying Boat Forum and Chief Moderator - who paid a visit and
sent in this lovely 54 image walk-round for us to enjoy. Read more
about it
here.
What I would have
given to have been with you Chris, but thanks for taking a superb
selection of pictures, including the cockpit..!
While producing the
above up-date tonight, I have found that an earlier walk-round of
Chris's might have gone un-noticed as it wasn't entered in the
Walk-Round Gallery
selection for some strange reason, so I have amended it right now.
Therefore, please
find here an earlier superb photo set of a
Canadair CL-215T
from 'Dogsbody'.
Finally for tonight
I got caught up in the
CL-215
moment - Yes, I know, as I did the Grumman Albatross...! - and added
100 new images
to the Photo
Gallery section
for the CL-215. There are a
host of fantastic pictures here and I'm willing to bet a few of them
will become Your new desktop wallpaper in the coming days..!
Enjoy..!
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I've spent a bit of
time today mending a broken pdf - the Supermarine Walrus Mk.I & II
Manual - the one found at the bottom of the Walrus Manual page
here.
Grateful thanks to
reader Brian
Blackmore who
very kindly contacted SEAWINGS to advise me. The issue was
simply that the pdf was too large in Gb to load in a reasonable
time; this has now been corrected and it downloads satisfactory.
If
YOU
spot anything
on the site that isn't working properly, please do let me know, many
thanks.
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Working on
the up-date yesterday reminded me that I had another
walk-round of the
Be-6 'Madge'
in my archive and here it is, shot by our long-term
correspondent
Igor Kolokolov,
demonstrating yet again how to take the perfect detailed
walk-round series, just as if I had been there myself.
He, along with the
other dedicated walk-round exponents make this site what it is
and my grateful thanks goes to all of them who take the time and
trouble to perfect their art and share it with us all. Thanks to all
of you....!
"Oh, go on then,
show us another Grumman Albatross walk-round" I hear you cry...!
Well, ok if you
insist, here is a lovely little walk-round of a beautiful
USCG example in the markings as based at Sacramento and this
features some lovely
interior shots
taken by
correspondent
Benoit Lescot
for our viewing pleasure. Thanks for sending it in, Benoit.
Next up for a change is a superb long-out-of-print article added to
the
O.O.P. Articles Gallery
which was published in
International Airpower Review Vol.10, 2003
and features a very detailed and informative listing of all the
Short Sunderland variants
including descriptions of the different types together with colour
camo and markings artwork and a full Squadron listing too.
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Following on from my
site hosting change-over last week, whilst looking around the site I
have noticed some galleries that have been affected in that the page
is there, but the links are not working to show full images.
The
Plans Gallery
seems the most affected, so I have started to re-construct the
missing plans images today commencing here with the
Beriev Be-6 'Madge' plans.
This has also meant that I can take a re-look at these pages and
images and up-date them to the 'new' page scheme as well.
I will be checking right through the
site over the next few weeks and up-dating all the pages to the
'new' scheme and that will give me a chance to fix any other issues
I find along the way.
It's got to be
done, so I might as well get on with it..!
Up-Date: All links
and images fixed today quicker than I thought..! Phew....didn't
enjoy that one.
Jus the individual
pages to be refreshed in the 'new' scheme, that's easier..!
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Whilst checking my
existing Albatross walk-rounds on the site this morning, I found one
where the images had not up-loaded correctly and thus were missing,
so I've corrected that and now it works fine.
It is the
Grumman HU-16A Albatross
on display in
the
Italian Aviation
Museum at Vigna di Valle,
just outside of Rome, Italy.
Enjoy...!
Next up is a very
colourful ex. Brazilian
A.F. Grumman Albatross on display in Brazil, photographed by
correspondent
Ivan Pliopas
who very kindly sent the images into SEAWINGS. Thanks, Ivan.
Finally for today,
here is a lovely walk-round from the camera lens of our prolific
Russian-based correspondent,
Igor Kolokolov
who attended
America's 'Sun n Fun'
fly-in in 2014 and
found this gorgeous
Grumman G-111
Albatross executive transport there on display. Thanks,
Igor.
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Continuing the recent
Grumman Albatross
theme, here is a lovely Walk-Round of a beautifully restored
HU-16B in distinctive and highly attractive
USAF markings,
not the usual fare for these 'boats, courtesy of
Alex Norton.
Thanks, Alex for
sharing this with us all.
I choose my
up-dates at random from the SEAWINGS archive to my personal
'whim-of-the-week' , but if there is anything that YOU
would like to see, please get in-touch and let me know. If I
have it, I will gladly present it here.....
Ok, once you have a
theme in your head, you might as well stick with it....!
Up next, is a lovely
29 image walk-round of another USAF-serving
Grumman Albatross,
this time a
UH-1G, on display at the
Pima County Air
Museum, Arizona.
My thanks goes to our
world-roving correspondent,
Igor Kolokolov
for providing this
superb set for us to enjoy.
Finally today, I
couldn't resist adding my 101 image walk-round of the
USCG
Grumman Albatross under restoration at
Hanger B, Floyd
Bennett Field, New York.
What a treat to be able to walk around such a magnificent 'boat with
a digital camera, a real special occasion. All thanks to
Park Ranger 'Linc'
Hallowell, who
very kindly guided me around the Hanger B complex during my visit.
Linc, sometimes
'Thanks' just isn't enough.....
SPECIAL NOTE:
As of this week, the SEAWINGS website is hosted on a
brand-new hosting package with a new host and it's working far
better than the past few weeks; the new hosts fee's have been paid
for the next 12 months and all seems well. It has been a desperately
awful couple of months here website-wise and much 'soul-searching'
has been carried out to find a host that actually cares about what
I'm building here. The great news is that I have found what I was
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Following on from the
up-date on the 3rd August, our long-time supporter and correspondent
for SEAWINGS,
Axel Ganz
from Germany, very
kindly sent in a superb
Hall PH-3 scale plan
which caused me to delve into the SEAWINGS plans archive and
find what else I have on this magnificent 'boat. That done, I have
created the Hall PH-3 Plans page
here. Thanks to
John Smith
and
Axel
for their
contributions.
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Just like London
buses, when you wait for one, two come along at the same time...!
Here is an up-date
featuring another superb walk-round of a
Grumman
HU-16B Albatross that has not featured on SEAWINGS
before, and just look at all that detail, especially the cockpit
area.
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Next up is a
superb walk-round of a
Grumman
HU-16B Albatross that has not featured on SEAWINGS
before, courtesy of our U.S.A. correspondent,
Bill Spidle.
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Today's up-date is a
real treat for Short Sandringham enthusiasts as our long-time U.S.
correspondent,
Vladimir Yakubov
has very kindly allowed SEAWINGS to feature his marvellous
131 image
walk-round of the Short S.25 Sandringham IV on display at
the
Fantasy of Flight
Museum
in Florida.
If 'big-Boats' are
your thing and close-up details as well, you are going to love
this..! Grateful thanks to Vladimir, as usual.
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Tonight's up-date
features the Martin
M-130 in all its glory as the latest addition to our Photo
Gallery with this fantastic series of
LIFE Archive
images.
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Tonight's up-date
features the beautiful Hall PH-3,
another of my favourites which I have added to the
Photo Gallery
for the first time.
If
YOU
have any other information on this 'boat such as plans, interior
images, manuals or indeed anything, please send it into SEAWINGS
for us all to enjoy.
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Tonight's up-date is a
small, yet perfectly formed walk-round from our Russian
correspondent
Victor Khemelik
featuring the
PBY-5A Catalina
on display at the
National Aerospace
Museum, Santiago, Chile.
Thanks, Victor.
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Today's up-date is a
fascinating close-up look at the
Beriev Be-12
'Mail' courtesy of our long-time Russian correspondent
Igor Kolokolov,
the difference being that these ones are, I think, being scrapped or
refurbished, it's difficult to tell. But, whatever the case, the
images show details of the airframe unobtainable under normal
circumstances and so are modellers 'gold-dust as far as adding extra
scale details are concerned. Thanks, Igor.
Next is another super
walk-around of the RAF Museum, Hendon
Supermarine Walrus. by
correspondent
Andrew Birnie.
Certain flying boats will keep appearing on this site as with the
advent of the brand-new Airfix 1/48th scale plastic model kit, there
is never enough reference material..! And the idea is to compile a
complete reference source for all the popular types as time and
opportunity allows.
Continuing with the
'these are all my favourite flying boat's' theme as it seems
today, here is a gorgeous walk-round of a
Beriev Be-6 'Madge' shot by
Oleg Timchenko which shows great details for modellers building the
new Trumpeter scale kit.
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It is extremely
rare when I feel obliged to up-load something without knowing much
about it, but I simply have to make an exception in this
up-date for I have stumbled across the most stunning 40 image walk-through
of the exterior, nose and particularly the cockpit of my one of my
all-time favourite modern 'boats, the
Beriev Be-12 'Mail'.
I have done this in an
effort to find the rightful owner of these fantastic photo's so I
can grant rightful credit or take them down if requested, so if
these are
YOUR
photo's please get in-touch with SEAWINGS.
In the meantime, I'll
leave them here for posterity.........
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Tonight's up-date is a
lovely walk-round photo gallery on the 1918
Curtiss Model
MF-Boat beautifully restored and on display at the
National Naval
Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, USA
very kindly donated by long-time correspondent
Igor Kolokolov
from Russia.
Many thanks, Igor..!
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Hello everyone, I'm
back..!
Please accept my apologies for taking the past six months 'off' but
work, family and life in general just got in the way of this, my
hobby - albeit a serious one - but a pastime hobby none-the-less
that I love dearly; but there comes a time when it simply has
to take a back seat whilst other stuff is sorted out.
However, I could
never have imagined that writing the entry below for the 1st January
up-date I would be writing this one today. For as long-time
correspondent
Alex Norton
from Canada featured in that one, for very different and all the
wrong reasons he features in this one too.
You see Alex very
kindly submitted another of his stunning photo walk-rounds just a
month ago which so sadly combined with the passing of his dear wife
Mary and I thought I could not possibly re-start the next series of
up-dates without respectfully leading with this one in tribute to
her, and grateful thanks to him.
So, this superb
walk-round of the only surviving
Boeing B-1 flying boat is
respectfully dedicated to Mary, Alex's wife - complete with a 'pink
twist'..!! Go read all about it....Thanks and much love from
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A
Happy New
Year
to you all
and thanks for
your continued visits and support ...! I will do my very best this
year to bring you as many up-dates as time will allow, and there are
a huge amount to do so, lets get cracking!
Starting this
brand-new year off is a superb walk-round taken by our long-term
correspondent
Alex Norton,
from Canada just a few days ago in December of the beautiful
Grumman G-73 Mallard
on display at the Kalamazoo Air Park in the USA. Grateful
thanks, Alex.
Next up, is a lovely
walk-round series from long-term correspondent
Igor Kolokolov
of one of my all-time favourites, this beautifully restored
Grumman JRF-5 Goose
at Floyd Bennett Field, to add to my own WR. Igor, thank you so much
for allowing me to show this.
Finally for today,
comes a few images of the Do.24 T-3,
subject of my previous full walk-round in Germany, whilst it was on
display at the RAF Museum in London courtesy of our correspondent
Alex Norton. Thanks again, Alex..!
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SPECIAL NOTE:
A great big THANK YOU goes out from me to
all the enthusiasts listed on the right as your
donations made the difference between being here
or not this year. How close was it? 24 hours to
be exact; the last bill was paid the day before
the site was due to close for a while whilst I
saved up the remaining funds. Phew! that
was close, the closest yet I have to say in 16
continuous years.
So, thank you so
very much for joining in. I'm now looking to
2017's funding; Yes, it starts all over again
now, but at least there is time
now.......hopefully.! |
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Bob, Alex, Patrick, Chris, Ian, Ralph, Grant,
Stephen, Olivier, Bernard, Richard, Tim, P.V. &
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Today's subject in the
Walk-Round
Gallery is this
beautiful
Bombardier CL-215T 'Alberta', in a scheme I have not seen
before and one that cries out for a decal sheet (hint, hint..!)
which has been sent in by none other than the Moderator of my Flying
Boat Forum,
Chris Eldridge
from Canada who had the pleasure of walking around this superb
example. Thanks, Chris.
On another subject,
it's been 'quiet' around here since the last up-date because I have
been kept busy 'behind-the-scenes' as it were involving myself with
the Imperial
War Museum, London
and their magnificent photographic archive of over
11 million images
(!). I am delighted to tell you that they have very graciously
allowed SEAWINGS to host all their flying boat and associated
reference images on this site and have waived their images fee's as
well..! Wow, that is so very kind and generous of them as the image
costs would ordinarily be far outside my ability to afford them, and
there are a lot I can tell you. A massive vote of thanks to the IWM
and their very helpful team of archivists.
So, I have spent
the time downloading and archiving all the images I can find within
their massive archive and that takes time; a lot of it as I found
out. I am now working to get each of them into the desired IWM
format for display they have asked for, which is fine by me. Wait
till you see them...!
Next up, is a
first-look at the test mouldings for the brand-new
1/72 scale Kawanishi H8K 'Emily' just announced by Hasegawa
for release in 2017 in the
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The next major
flying boat type to receive the SEAWINGS
'treatment' is the
Dornier Do.24
and this comes from the substantial private archive owned by
our Dutch correspondent
Bart Lammerse
who has very kindly granted permission for us to share it -
all of it.
It has always been a
type that eluded the 'full coverage' that it should have on this
site, partly due to a distinct lack of decent references and also
because I've been concentrating on other 'boats. With Bart
contacting me and making his fantastic offer of help, the timing
could not be better.
I say that because his
archive is large and covers all aspects of this iconic German
Luftwaffe WWII 'boat; walk-round(s), plans, manual, profiles and
contemporary photographs which is where I've started today.
Click to view the 109
images in the new
Do.24 Photo Gallery here and over the
next few weeks I will be working to add all the rest of the
material.
My grateful thanks
goes to Bart for his generosity. Enjoy!
Coming up next on
SEAWINGS for the Do.24:
● Photographic
Walk-Rounds.
● Interior photo's.
● Maintenance Manual
illustrations.
● Plans, Colour
Profiles and Paintings.
● Article pdf's.
● The SAR 'boats; a
photographic gallery.
.....and more..!
PS: I couldn't wait to
add more images so have uploaded Bart's Do.24 construction photo's
to the above gallery..! These images have been sourced from the
now-defunct fly.to/do24 website and I am pleased to save them and
give them a home for all to view, courtesy of Bart.
Finally for today,
I've just up-loaded a superb 'out-of-print' article describing in
some detail the operations of the
Spanish S.A.R. Dornier
Do.24's into
the Out-Of-Print Article Gallery,
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SEAWINGS is now just a few days away from having to pay all the
Site Hosting and extra Storage invoices for the coming year's
viewing - they are due mid-November as usual - and as usual it's
going to be tight. This year has been the lowest donation period in
the 16 year history of this site. My grateful thanks goes out to the
6 No. readers/enthusiasts that have donated thus far this year;
that's 6 out of hundreds of viewers of this site.
It's quite simple; if
I cannot meet the invoices, the site will be shut down on 16th
November next until the bills can be paid - I know that as I have
spoken to the site hosts this week. That will also cause the loss of
the front page link to the Flying Boat Forum unfortunately, so now
is the time to save that into your favourites for direct access to
it.
I do as much as I
possibly can to keep this important reference site afloat; if I
can't meet the bills, it won't be here for you for a while. It's up
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A subject that
has fascinated me for some time is the shipborne catapults
that have launched the flying boats from the various capital
ships, yet there is very little information 'out
there' on these machines.
New correspondent
Maarten
Schönfeld
answered my 'cry for help' and very kindly sent me all
references that he had amassed when constructing a scale model of
such a catapult.
Armed with this
information, and some of my own, I have created the
H.M. Ships Catapult Archive
within the
Ships Gallery
and hope to add to it in the near future.
If YOU have any
pictures, plans, drawings and information concerning the flying boat
catapults that were mounted on ships around the world, please send
it into SEAWINGS as modelers and enthusiasts would love to be
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Continuing with my
Supermarine
Walrus up-date
theme, I have re-arranged and expanded the
Walk-Round Gallery for the Walrus
on display at the
RAF Museum,
London
- which is actually a
Seagull V
version - as I was so fortunate to make a random visit and find it
in a 'stripped
down' state
ready for a physical move into another area of the museum.
So, armed with my
camera I took full advantage of that as you will see; it afforded
opportunities for photos that one would not normally get. Enjoy!
Next up today is a
selection of
full-colour profiles
of the Walrus
drawn by noted artist
Bob Pearson
who's work features in all the quality websites, book volumes and
discerning model kit manufacturers artwork. My grateful thanks goes
to Bob for granting permission to show these. Thanks, Bob.
I realised that
I've not up-dated the
Walrus Photo Gallery for a long while, so I have just put
that to rights with a
brand-new selection of
images from my
archive to add inspiration to those modelers contemplating the
arrival of the new 1/48 scale Airfix model kit next year!
Into the
Walrus Walk-Round Gallery I've
added four excellent images from UK-based correspondent
Ken Withey
showing in particular
details the wheel well and bomb rack area. Many thanks, Ken.
Next, three extra
profiles have been sent into SEAWINGS featuring the
Walrus by correspondent Mark
from New Zealand. Thanks, Mark.
Now, I have also
renewed and expanded the
Walrus Manual Gallery
and have added the full Supermarine
Walrus Maintenance Manual as a pdf download for those that
want to go that 'extra-mile' in details and description.
Finally, in what
seems to have become a massive Walrus up-date today, next is a
complete re-vamp of the Walrus Plans
Gallery
complete with text notations for some of the plans, all provided by
our long-term correspondent
Olivier Faivre.
Thanks, Olivier.
Phew, what a day
I've had doing all these up-dates but it has been well worth it;
now, there is no excuse for not getting the Supermarine Walrus
details correct..!
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Right out-of-the-blue
comes the announcement from
Airfix (UK)
that they are working
on a brand-new
1/48 model kit,
due for release July 2017 and it's the
Supermarine Walrus
Mk.I ....!
Featured within
the Scale Model Kit News
gallery are the CAD drawing images and Airfix's own
description that is bound to have us all dribbling down the monitor
for the next few months as we count down the days to getting our
hands on it...!
Spookily, this all
comes right in the week where I've decided to up-load, feature and
concentrate on Walrus references for this site, so you will all have
the very best of what SEAWINGS can offer - which in the case
of the Walrus is an enormous amount, when the kit finally arrives.
You will have all these to-hand and no excuse not to dive in and
build one..!
And as ever for
the past 16 years these references are provided by myself to you all
completely free-of-charge unless of course, you feel like making a
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Today see's the start
of SEAWINGS's
New Flying Boat Publications Gallery
and OMG....what a book to start with...!
Just published, Volume
2 of 'The Fighting America Boats of WWI compilation is another
masterwork by
Aeronaut Publications
and the author
Colin Owers.
Read my review in
the gallery and see what a proper flying boat book should look like;
...and then some.
SEAWINGS
welcomes anyone to send in their new publications for inclusion in
this new gallery - please contact SEAWINGS
here.
More entries for
the gallery to come....
Next up today is my
walk-round of Supermarine
Walrus L2301 on display at the
Fleet Air Arm Museum,
RNAS Yeovilton, England.
Yes..! I made it there
at long last and what a pleasure it was to walk around this superb
restoration complete with its wings folded, a treat in itself, and
get right up-close to her to shoot what amounted to
151 No. images.
Thanks to the very
helpful staff there, I even managed a couple of interior shots!
Continuing the page
re-building/re-design theme, I have consolidated all the walk-rounds
of Walrus L2301 into one gallery to make it easier for everyone to
find everything; well, that's the plan!
I'm carrying on this
work 'behind-the-scenes' through the next couple of months so keep a
look-out for page changes..! Enjoy! |
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SPECIAL NOTE TO READERS:
I am changing many
pages within this site over the next few weeks. For you to keep up
with these changes and to be able to view the changed pages
perfectly, you will need to click your
F5
keyboard key when you visit each time; this key 'refreshes your
saved screen cache' and ensures that you are looking at the
latest version of the page.
Once I've finished all
the 'behind the scenes fiddling' all will settle down and this won't
be necessary any longer. Thanks for your patience. |
SEAWINGS
2016
Hosting Fund Donations Received To Date: |
5
in Total |
Grateful thanks to:
Gary, Lorimer, Mike, Axel,
Bob and Alex. |
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The
2016 SEAWINGS funding journey
continues...... |
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"Every contribution helps, Thanks" |
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Hello Everyone..! Yes,
I know; I can hear you saying; "Where have YOU
been...?"
The best answer I can
give you is 'working behind the scenes' for the past few
months. In actuality, family and work got in the way daily, but
truthfully 'behind the scenes' is quite correct as I've embarked on
my 'life- path' of getting this site right-up-to-date by not only
producing up-dates but by going through every page on the site and
changing each one into the 'new' livery I've decided upon; it's much
more 'user friendly' in that it's easier to read and more subtle
than previously. I won't be changing this one again; this is 'it'
now. But, it needs to be completed otherwise the site looks a mess.
That said, in
carrying through this effort I've have found some things that
weren't working as they should and even a gallery that was never
up-loaded in the first place! (Doh..!)
So, go to the
Short S-45A Solent Mk III
walk-round page and you now have the fantastic IrfanView images
working again..!
And, here is the
Grumman
J2F-1 Duck DETAILpics Gallery that should have
already been up-loaded, but wasn't for some strange reason.
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It is my sad
duty to inform you of the passing of one of SEAWINGS's
staunchest supporters over the years,
Brian Knock
from the UK.
Brian and I spoke on
the phone, emailed and corresponded for well over ten years or more;
every few weeks a package would arrive at my office and in it would
be a pile of documents - all flying boat related - and a lot of them
would be the actual magazine articles removed out of copies of
FLIGHT, and the like. From that I was able to build the
'Flying Boat
'Out-of-Print'
articles
Gallery which he was credited for.
He sent me fabulous
stuff that you wouldn't ever get to see nowadays; he was a serious
collector of aviation related material and fully bought into my
producing a website that would endeavour to preserve the flying boat
era for future generations to learn from, as well as the present
generations to enjoy, be they historians, enthusiasts or scale
modellers, all for 'free'.
He never ever asked
for anything in return and so sadly, he turned out to be the 'nicest
chap I never met'. He had his heart attack the night before we
were due to meet for the first time.
Here is another article he sent me,
preserved for all time. Brian, sometimes 'Thanks' just isn't
enough..... |
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SEAWINGS
2016
Hosting Fund Donations Received To Date: |
4
in Total |
Grateful thanks to:
Gary, Lorimer, Mike, Axel &
Bob. |
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The
2016 SEAWINGS funding journey starts
here...... |
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"Every contribution helps, Thanks" |
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Just a quick
up-date tonight featuring a
walk-round of the lovely
Supermarine Walrus
on display at the
F.A.A. (Fleet Air Arm) Museum, Yeovilton,
UK.
I have
determined that I have
to get to this flying boat and give it once-and-for-all the
'SEAWINGS walk-round treatment'
as the display is so, well,
'flying-boat'..!
With its wings
folded, affording the viewer so much more detail opportunity, as
well as unique options on photography angles unavailable in any
other museum, plans are being made to get me and my trusty
digi-camera front & centre with this craft......!
Me, I can't
wait.....and YOU will be the first to see the results..! Watch this
space..!
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