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aircraft

Hansa Brandenburg W29 floatplane 1920 (Ken Singshow)
Tarant Tabors, RAF 1921 (Simon Leo Barber)
RAF Vickers Viking circa 1925 (Julie 'Denali' Thompson)
IVL A.22 Hansa floatplane circa 1930 (Pelzig)
licensed version of German Hansa-Brandenburg W.33 circa 1918
Junkers F13 floatplane 1919-1940 (Ken Fletcher)
standard version with floats: semi-open cockpit; 4-5 passengers; in-line engine
  Junkers F13 (variant) floatplane (Bruce Grant - illo: KFletcher)
Sandy & Andrace's floatplane - enclosed cockpit - circa 1935

Kaibo Gikai KB Japanese flying boat built 1924 (Pelzig)
French Latecoere 28 floatplane
  A French civilian airmail aircraft & a navy scout & torpedo bomber.
Airshow poster 1929 (Simon Leo Barber)
Bellanca J-300 Monoplane 1931 (Ken Fletcher)
Bellanca AirCruiser (P-200A) floatplane 1931 (Ken Fletcher)
Curtis BT-32 "Condor II" as civilian floatplane (Jim Groat)
The "Flying Flea": a European home-built aircraft (SA Gallacci)
Douglas Dolphin flying boat 1933 (William Earl Haskell)
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Curtiss SOC "Seagull"  (Wolfie DarkWolfie)
scout-observation floatplane USA circa 1934-1946
Looking over a USNavy PBY-3 in the lagoon (Jim Groat)
  PBY 'Catalina' sketch  (Wolfie DarkWolfie)
Short S.23 Empire flying boat 'C-Class'
on a 1937 Spontoon Island airmail stamp (Stuart McCarthy)
P-26 'Peashooter' USA on patrol 1937 (Jim Groat)

Ercorsair 105-S (Mitch Marmell)
Tali Horton & her Ercorsair Floatplane (Seth C. Triggs)
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Shavrov SH-2 flies over a canoe (Jim Groat)
Lockheed P-38 Lightning page USA 1942 (Taral Wayne)
Lockheed P-38 cockpit & pilot USA 1940s (Wolfie DarkWolfie)
Yokosuka E-14y-1 'Glen' floatplane Japan 1942 (Taral Wayne)
Grumman Corsair carrier fighter USA 1942 (Stuart McCarthy)
Vought O52U-1 Kingfisher USA 1940 variant (Mitch Beiro)
Consolidated B-24 bomber, USA circa 1940 (mature image) (Dean Lee Norton)
California firebomber seaplane (Dean Lee Norton)
Sea Meteor arrives in the Islands 1945 (Simon Barber)
Sanger "Silver Bird" makes an emergency landing 1946 (Simon Barber)

Aircraft References: Photos & Art
A sampling of real aircraft from the 1930s & early 40s.

**  "Quick Look" - a sketch by Wolfie DarkWolfie  **

Created aircraft

Naval Syndicate floatplane over Spontoon Island (SA Gallacci)
"Seasnake" floatplane historical summary (SA Gallacci)
"Bloop!": Racing floatplane tune-up (Roy D Pounds II)
Sunbather on floatplane (Wolfie DarkWolfie)
"Supply Drop" Unloading a seaplane (Jeff Jacklin)
Talbot-Leland "Sea-Gorgon" type B floatplane (Taral Wayne)
Plan of Talbot-Leland "Sea-Gorgon" type B by Taral Wayne
More images of the "Sea Gorgon" floatplane
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Carreidas 90-1A "Chilkoot" sketch (Taral Wayne)
30 passengers - circa 1941
Vicker's-Armstrong "Manchu Duck" (Taral Wayne)
"Sky" Shark's 'Barracuda' (Stuart McCarthy)
"SilverAngel" Swedish floatplane (Freddy Andersson)
(from his Silver Angel comic strip -- drawing inked by Ken Fletcher)
Foxbat 5 patrol/torpedo floatplane (Fiji 1931) (Ken Fletcher)

P-10 "Bird Dog" Rain Island 1933 (Ken Fletcher)
Strelski 3003T Patrol Torpedo (Ken Fletcher)
Southwing SW 37-P fighter floatplane (Ken Fletcher)
Southwing SW 40-P fighter floatplane (Ken Fletcher)
"Aloha": passenger flying boat at night (Roy D Pounds II)
Tillamooka floatplane racer "Mystery Ship" (Simon Barber)
Turbine envy (Simon Leo Barber)

RINS "Sea Flea" interceptor 1935 (Simon Leo Barber)
Nootka Sea-Master (circa 1945?) sketch (Taral Wayne)
Supermarine SP-D301 "Super Orca" 1945 (Taral Wayne)
Northair-6 "Super Sea-Hog" flying boat (Taral Wayne)
Osprey flying boat page (Ken Fletcher & Ken Singshow)

*  The "Vulture One" amphibious flying boat (M. Mitchell Marmel)  *
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AP-97 "Colossus" Flying Wing (Stuart McCarthy)
Handley-page Aerostat, RAF 1919 (Simon Leo Barber)
NX-W2, secret seaplane sketch (Mitch Beiro)
Kasaba 888 Cityplane USA flying boat circa 1940 (Mitch Beiro)
Floatplane pilots take a break in a lagoon (Ken Fletcher)
Hans Niessen's "Norvegicus" flying boat (Craig Hilton)
A '3-point' landing in Spontoon's Lagoon (Marc Schirmeister)
Professor Wencil's flying boat (JP Morgan)
The "Spirit of Yucaipa" racing seaplane (Marc Schirmeister)
zooming monoplane (toony) (Ken Fletcher)

Seaplane bases
Map of main seaplane terminals in the Spontoon Lagoon
for scheduled passenger & freight flights, including customs sheds.

East dock of the Casino Island Seaplane Terminal.
(This is the smaller regional terminal.)

Aircraft Research
Moon Island wind tunnel (Art by Simon Barber)
Borrowing the wind tunnel to do some industrial research.

Secret Engineering? (Scott Thomas)

***  More aircraft at the air races!  ***
Update 24-31 August 2008
See Beryl's modified Spitfire at the 1946 trophy races....

Aircraft basics
Features a "Beginner's Guide to Airplanes" by M. Mitchell Marmel

***  Why Seaplanes?  ***
Comments on 1930s air transport
by Ken Fletcher

 Aircraft identification and decoration
**  "nose art"  **
Update 1 August 2008: Nose art by Stuart McCarthy

Flight crews
Drucker Airlines crew uniform (circa 1939) (Stuart McCarthy)
****  Drucker Airlines stewardess uniform (circa 1941)  ****
(Stuart McCarthy)