seaplane in English

noun
1
an aircraft with floats instead of wheels, designed to land on and take off from water.
I became rated in gyroplanes, helicopters, seaplanes and gliders.

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1. Seaplane hangar Abaft the conning tower

2. DB-3TP Seaplane torpedo bomber built in 1938.

3. Diamond bombarded the Italian seaplane base at Bomba, Libya on 23 August.

4. Among other changes, the hangar for her seaplane was dismantled.

5. On demobilisation, Paulhan became a seaplane builder, building machines under licence from Curtiss.

6. Wilhelm Kress trials a triplane seaplane that makes a short hop before capsizing.

7. It was operating from HMS Ben-my-Chree, a seaplane carrier converted from a ferry.

8. “The take-off of an Albatross is aerodynamically similar to that of a seaplane.

9. The Burgess HT-2 Speed Scout was an experimental United States observation/fighter seaplane.

10. Two seaplane tenders and six destroyers were to deliver 728 soldiers plus artillery and ammunition to Guadalcanal.

11. Accordingly, two flush-deck Clemson-class destroyers were chosen for conversion to light seaplane tenders: Williamson and Childs.

12. Several Japanese ships had been sunk, a seaplane base damaged, and fires started among the wharves and warehouses.

13. British Guiana An Army Air Force airfield (Atkinson Aerodrome (later AFB)) (closed 1949) A Naval seaplane base near Suddie.

14. Williamson and her sister tenders also stocked emergency seaplane bases with vital necessities: buoys, gasoline, lubricating oil, ammunition, and bombs.

15. On 1 February 1943, De Haven screened six LCTs and a seaplane tender establishing a beachhead at Maravovo on Guadalcanal.

16. The Latécoère 298 (sometimes abridged to Laté 298) was a French seaplane that served during World War II.

17. The aerodrome was well established, with the headquarters on board the seaplane tender Ark Royal which was anchored in the bay. Sentencedict.com

18. History Of Anodizing Aluminum Anodizing was first used on an industrial scale in 1923 to protect Duralumin seaplane parts from corrosion

19. I waited out at the end of the seaplane dock and swung aboard his sailboat as it drifted into the dock.

20. The Grumman HU-16 Albatross is a large twin–radial engine amphibious seaplane that was used by the United States Air Force (USAF), the U.S

21. Private-use air facilities registered with the FAA include 43 land-based airstrips, eight additional seaplane bases, two heliports and one STOLport.

22. 27 The aerodrome was well established, with the headquarters on board the seaplane tender Ark Royal which was anchored in the bay.

23. Some are cautionary Buoys to mark firing range or seaplane bases, while others gather weather information, locate prohibited areas or mark designated mooring areas.

24. A Includes civil and joint-use civil-military Airports, heliports, STOL (short takeoff and landing) ports, and seaplane bases in the United States and its territories

25. Public Airports are approximately 5,170, while the rest are either heliport, short landing and takeoff ports, joint-use civil-military airport, seaplane base, or military-only-use Airports

26. She was commissioned as a seaplane tender, and carried float-equipped planes under hangars on the main deck, from where they were lowered on the sea with a crane.

27. He worked at aircraft construction with engineer Pillard at the Société Provençale de Constructions Aéronautiques, building in 1928 the first all-metal seaplane in France, the SPCA Paulhan-Pillard T3.

28. After protecting that seaplane tender, four days later, she escorted Ballard to Vanua Levu to pick up sick Army coastwatchers before returning to Espiritu Santo for fuel from the oiler USS Tappahannock.