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*  Art by Jim Groat added 25 January 2017  *
**  Art by Jim Groat added 30 April 2017  **
aircraft
- historical -
art archive
closely based on historical designs, with variants
of a 1920's through 1945 flavor

Hansa Brandenburg W29 floatplane 1920 (Ken Singshow)

Tarant Tabors, RAF 1921 (Simon Leo Barber)

"Spontoon Island 1922" (Avro strutter floatplane) - (Larger file here - 302 KBytes)
Art by Jim Groat - http://www.furaffinity.net/user/rabbi-tom/
 
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 (KFletcher)
  A French civilian airmail aircraft & a navy scout & torpedo bomber.

Nakajima Type 15 - maritime recon floatplane - late 1920s
(Larger file here - 329 KBytes) - art by Jim Groat
 
Airshow poster 1929 (Simon Leo Barber)

Douglas RD-2 amphibian flying boat 'Dolphin'
(civilian version: 'Sinbad') circa 1930
(Larger file here - 357 KBytes) - art by Jim Groat
http://www.furaffinity.net/user/rabbi-tom/

Douglas Dolphin flying boat 1933 (William Earl Haskell)
http://www.furaffinity.net/user/trivialink/

In the Air: Douglas RD-2 'Dolphin' amphibian flying-boat
(Larger file here - 1.8 MBytes)
Art by Jim Groat - http://www.furaffinity.net/user/rabbi-tom/
Civilian version called the 'Sinbad' - circa 1930
Update 20 February 2013

Bellanca J-300 Monoplane 1931 (Ken Fletcher)

Bellanca AirCruiser (P-200A) floatplane 1931 (Ken Fletcher)

"Next time, I get to fly one without the wheels!"
Tali Hartoh flies a US Navy zeppelin-based training aircraft
Art by Roy D. Pounds II - http://www.furaffinity.net/user/steamfox/
Color & character by M. Mitchell Marmel - http://www.furaffinity.net/user/marmelmm/

Ni Hao and his 'Nin Hai' Chinese floatplane - Art by R. J. Bartrop
(Larger file here - 2 MBytes) - http://rjbartrop.deviantart.com/
"Hao is the youngest son of the Ni Family. The plane in the background
is his cherished Nin Hai biplane. The Nin Hai was built by the
China Naval Establishment in 1933, an early effort by the Nationalist government
to start an aircraft industry." -- Walt Reimer, writer of "Luck of the Dragon"
Update 5 March 2015

Curtis BT-32 "Condor II" as civilian floatplane (Jim Groat)

The "Flying Flea": a European home-built aircraft (SA Gallacci)

French sailor & Loire 130 flying boat - by Jim Groat
Larger files here (447 KBytes) & here (697 KBytes)

Dornier D-18 air/sea rescue flying boats (French Polynesia registery)
(Larger file here - 414 KBytes) - art by Jim Groat
http://www.furaffinity.net/user/rabbi-tom/

*  Fokker C.XI-W reconnaissance floatplane (used by the Netherlands Navy).  *
As seen in the Spontoon Archipelago circa 1935 - by Jim Groat
Larger files here (457 KBytes) & here (713 KBytes)
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Stearman XOSS-1 seaplane - by Jim Groat (larger file here - 1.4 MBytes)
http://www.furaffinity.net/user/rabbi-tom/
Observation/scout aircraft designed for the US Navy, that could be launched as a floatplane
from battleships and cruisers. Could also be fitted with wheels instead of floats.
Update 3 February 2013

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 Marmel)
Tali Horton & her Ercorsair Floatplane
(Seth C. Triggs) - http://www.bibp.com

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)

"Quick Look" - a sketch by Wolfie DarkWolfie

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

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

Why Seaplanes?
Comments on 1930s air transport
by Ken Fletcher
(Upload 8 September 2008)

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