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[Fusek]

That looks very very nice! Is that a gun at the front? Very creative work, I like it.

[SAS~Skipper]

Requires the installation of the land version!

Link at the beginning of the topic.


The hull shape glider explicitly requested to be flying boat -
 "The Black Sea gull"!

[SAS~Bombsaway]

Now thats really cool.

[max_thehitman]

NOW THAT is Extra COOL!!  It even lands on water too!
it looks almost like this --->
Fantastic! 
I really like where this airplane is going. It looks very sturdy and capable of great
long flights.... to the Amazon jungle or the African Jungle... like an Indiana Jones adventures.
Now I feel like making some skins to represent Adventure-Safari aviation of the
1920´s and 1930s airplane era 

Very cool airplanes in that time...

[tooslow]

Great new addition and it's fun to fly.  Not only will this new sea plane land and takeoff from water, I even managed to beach it on the Pacific Islands map from the QMB.  This the first seaplane that I've beached successfully, however if it goes any further on the beach it starts to "hop" like the other seaplanes.

See the picture below:

[RealDarko]

Max, you're right, looks a bit like the Dornier, maybe a bitbigger fuselage will enhance this impression, hope you can add a "rescue door" on that skins so we can use in different makins to recover lost at sea pilots.
BTW, nice video of flight in Africa too.

[SAS~Skipper]

If the community finds it necessary, I can fix a propeller to pull instead of push ..

[Gatrasz]

Hi Skipper, this one is very good already , thank you ! But, if you speak about another version, i can say that a twin-engined one, with propellers to pull, should make a good hack for Saro "CuttySark" or "Cloud" too

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saro_Cloud
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saro_Cutty_Sark

[SAS~Skipper]

I tried to install two motors, but had some problems with alignment.
I will hold a re-investigation.)))

[RealDarko]

WOW! Those two engines looks pretty. Skipper I hope you can create them as it will really improve the look of the amphibian.

[caldrail]

A bomber??  This looks fragile to be a bomber.
If I had an army in WW2  I probably use it to transport soldiers behind enemy lines or for
attacking the enemy in an isolated area where most airplanes cannot land. The Germans did
that when they attacked one of the Forts in the Maginot Line when they invaded Frace. The paratroopers
used gliders to attack the forts from behind, where they least expected them to attack, and where the
fort guns where not positioned there.

If you had an army, you make use of what you have. Transport aircraft were used as bombers in the early stages of the war, SCW included, for that very reason. Some unlikely aeroplanes were adapted as bombers. The Dragon Rapide for instance. The C47. Or the Ju52. Strictly speaking, combat aircraft like the Do17, He70, and He111 were civilian aeroplanes adapted for a military role.

[agracier]

The Germans did
that when they attacked one of the Forts in the Maginot Line when they invaded Frace. The paratroopers
used gliders to attack the forts from behind, where they least expected them to attack, and where the
fort guns where not positioned there.
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That was in Belgium what you're talking about, at the fort of Eben-Emael which was built to protect the Meuse river crossings near Liege. The paratroops landed on top of the fort. Since the fort was mainly built as an artillery position, machine guns were in concrete positions to fire at infantry, AAA guns to fire into the air, but nobody had thought about would happen if enemy troops were on top of the fort.

It was a big propaganda coup for the Germans as well at the time - see how smart and resourceful  we are.

The fort is still intact and can be visited. Worth a visit too.