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I did this a few days ago for Ken Fletcher's Spontoon Island site. It's a companion piece to May Day, posted here about two weeks ago. Some comments on the art led me to doing a schematic of the downed aircraft frm the May Day drawing. At the last moment I did a fast job of colouring it a well.
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Passage to Spontoon Island can be booked at:
http://spontoon.rootoon.com/
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Oh, models like this flew... Almost all in the Pacific, and none were ever first line fighters. Let's face it... not float plane can outrun or outmanueuver a plane without floats. I tried designing a plane with retractable floats, but the problem is that floats have to be pretty big to support a plane. If one the oceans were full of mercury instead of water, you couid float a plane easily, but alas the ocean's are just plain old H2O.
Don't forget ship launched seaplanes! They weren't meant for any sort of fighting. A battleship or cruiser would launch them so they could search for enemy ships. On return, the plane would land in the sea nearby, and be picked up by crane. In some cases -- rough seas perhaps -- it would be assumed that the plane would be abandoned and only the pilot rescued.
The Japanese had a giant submarine that carried three folded-up seaplanes in watertight compartments on the deck. They actually did drop a few pathetic 250 lb. bombs on the American mainland with this type, the Yokosuka E-14Y-1 "Glen". I illustrated an article on the subject once, and have the art posted in my gallery.
The Japanese had a giant submarine that carried three folded-up seaplanes in watertight compartments on the deck. They actually did drop a few pathetic 250 lb. bombs on the American mainland with this type, the Yokosuka E-14Y-1 "Glen". I illustrated an article on the subject once, and have the art posted in my gallery.
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