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Which plane am I looking for? - 11/19/2002 5:38:55 AM   
DKjens



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Status: offline 		Please help, I thought it was the kingfisher, but ot's not. I am looking for a WWII single radial, single float with outriggers, retracts into side of center float. As I recall, it was a recognesance/mail/transport, mostly used in the Pacific region during WWII. The center float is a complete part of the fuse, looks like a big tongue, sticking out in fron under the prop. I believe the plane was in one of the episodes of "Black Sheep Squadron". The pilot sits in an open (I believe) cockpit on top, passengers or cargo is loaded through a door in the side of the fuse.
I would love to find first the name, then a kit or plans for a model of this plane. I have a Maccullogh100 engine sitting here, looking for something to haul around, so a large model would be great.
Thanks for any help that can be offered.
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Which plane am I looking for? - 11/19/2002 5:49:10 AM   
TurboOtter



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Status: offline 		Would it be the Grumman Duck? although that was a biplane

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Bingo - 11/19/2002 5:54:56 AM   
DKjens



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Status: offline 		Dang, you know your seaplanes, TurboOtter. Thanks much, now, are there kits available, or plans for, say a 120-140" ws model?
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Which plane am I looking for? - 11/19/2002 6:29:53 AM   
TurboOtter



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Status: offline 		I'll have to leave that 2nd question to the experts:-) The Grummans I am familiar with having flown Widgeon, Goose, and Mallard (sigh.... I sure miss the Goose that was a real pilots airplane) challenging around a dock though.

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Which plane am I looking for? - 11/19/2002 8:43:53 AM   
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Status: offline 		DKjens can,t help with your plans or kit search but can offer a few tidbits about the airplane. I beleve the Ducks were the linial descendants of the old Loening OA and OL 'shoehorn' series of the mid twentys mostly Liberty powered but some with radials.
Grumman first produced the J2F duck in 1933 and about 600 were produced through the -6 version which is what I think that photo is. The dash six was not produced by Grumman but Columbia aircraft in 1944 under license from Grumman and in 1945 Columbia developed a rather attractive monoplane version but never got past maybe two prototypes.

In 1975 I wittnessed the only flying example at that time (there may be more now) owned by the Famous TallMantz aviation museum perform an incredible aerobatic display at the Abbotford international airshow in BC. What a beautifull site it was watching that beer belly thing doing big gracefull and oh so slow aerobatics. This is the airplane that was used in the movie 'Murphys War' and the Black sheep series among others.

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Duck plans - 11/19/2002 10:50:57 PM   
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Status: offline 		Check out the plans offered in the mags I saw a set for the Duck I can not place where Try Holman or Sid Morgan or Clevland Model supply

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Which plane am I looking for? - 11/20/2002 3:49:44 AM   
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Which plane am I looking for? - 11/20/2002 3:51:16 AM   
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Which plane am I looking for? - 11/20/2002 5:00:51 AM   
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Status: offline 		TurboOtter- You've flown a Goose?? I would KILL to fly a Grumman Seaplane!! You would have to pry me from the seat with a snow shovel to get me out of one.

Long live the flying boat!!


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Which plane am I looking for? - 11/20/2002 5:27:27 AM   
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Status: offline 		Sawyer, the Goose is great airplane. The Grumman Ironworks built it like a tank to last. After your PHD in plumbing to manage the fuel system, and learning to keep your knuckles out of the gear wheel, you took a gymnastic course to learn how to wiggle through the pilots window and scramble over the fuselage when docking on the right side. This did help to keep our weight down:-) Next on the agenda was dancing lessons, to learn to co-ordinate and speed up your feet, in order to keep that short coupled old girl tracking straight down the runway on that NARROW gear in a 90 degree crosswind,and every now and then trying to remember if you put the hull plugs back in before you left the ramp that morning, you would non-chalantly ask your passenger beside you if those "extra"drain plugs were beside his seat. Yeah,I miss the old girl

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Which plane am I looking for? - 11/20/2002 5:33:13 AM   
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Status: offline 		Congrads, I just found a new hero. Now it's you and Jimmy Buffett.

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Which plane am I looking for? - 11/20/2002 5:34:31 AM   
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Which plane am I looking for? - 11/20/2002 6:58:21 AM   
TurboOtter



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Status: offline 		Gee I am honoured to be mentioned in the same breath as JB:-)The Mallards were a layed back version of the Goose, big and stable... easier on the nerves. The company I was working for sold the turbo mallards down under just before I got on them, the b*****ds! so I never got the pleasure. Got a few hours in Widgeon way back when, and the same in an Albatross that was travelling through here with a friend of mine. Now the Albatross is a big airplane, too bad we can't licence them up here in Canada for commercial use. I guess you could count the Seabee, Twinbee, Lake, Volmer Sportsman as boats I have flown too.

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Which plane am I looking for? - 11/23/2002 7:43:21 AM   
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GOT THE PLANS FOR THE DUCK
$50 SHIPPED
DETAILED DOWN TO THE RETRACTABLE LANDING GEAR
EMAIL DAN MOFFETT
[email]moffprod@centurytel.net[/email]

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Which plane am I looking for? - 11/26/2002 7:05:24 AM