10/3!

by "Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
Published 03/10/2017 at 16:07

Tags: Beriev ; Be 103
STARS: 6

Time to take to the skies.

And the water.

And the land.

Meet the Beriev Be 103, or e-103 if you’re persuaded by Cyrillic.

No, it hasn’t ditched and started to sink. It has immersible wings.

Replies (10)

"WilliamsSW" (williamssw)
03/10/2017 at 16:12, STARS: 1

Honest question - can that thing land on water? That seems like it would be a tricky proposition - and even a takeoff would require no waves or swells whatsoever? EDIT - I googled pictures of it out of water, and I think I get it - the wing design accommodates water operations. I still think there isn’t much margin of error for dipping a wing in the flare, though—

"HammerheadFistpunch" (hammerheadfistpunch)
03/10/2017 at 16:20, STARS: 3

I love the idea of amphibious planes. If I had the monies I wouldn’t be chasing down hyper cars, it would be getting my toys that would take me places I can’t otherwise see. Something like the ICON a5 or this speaks to me big time.

"Ash78, voting early and often" (ash78)
03/10/2017 at 16:21, STARS: 1

My old man showed me this thing back when I was fascinated with the Erkranoplan (which used to be an entire tag on Jalopnik). This thing takes off and lands using WIG (ground effect) principles, but is fundamentally a real plane. Such a weird proposition.

"Jonathan Harper" (jbh)
03/10/2017 at 16:28, STARS: 0

Totally agree, I have a friend with an Icon A5 on order.

"HammerheadFistpunch" (hammerheadfistpunch)
03/10/2017 at 16:28, STARS: 1

many jelly.

"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
03/10/2017 at 16:35, STARS: 1

Sure can.

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"BorkBorkBjork" (tbirdlemons)
03/10/2017 at 16:43, STARS: 0

Yours for a cool $400k

http://www.controller.com/listings/aircraft/for-sale/1330823/2003-beriev-be-103

"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
03/10/2017 at 17:30, STARS: 0

Everything about that airplane says, “Bad idea.”

"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
03/10/2017 at 18:14, STARS: 3

Nonetheless, it seems to work perfectly well. Plenty of videos of it.

Don’t think it would cope too well with landing on choppy water though.

"Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo" (rustyvandura)
03/10/2017 at 19:25, STARS: 0

And landing in and of itself would create plenty of chop.