Good Morning, Oppo

"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 07/31/2019 at 10:02 • Filed to: good morning oppo

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Happy Hump Day. From the days when flying boats looked like boats with wings, here is the Loire 102.

InFierority Complex > ttyymmnn 07/31/2019 at 10:21

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Needs more catamaran

ttyymmnn > InFierority Complex 07/31/2019 at 10:26

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I give the Italians and the French credit for making some of the ugliest and most awesome aircraft of the 1930s. 

Nothing > ttyymmnn 07/31/2019 at 10:38

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When I was a kid, I wanted to get my pilot’s license. Our camp is on a small river in northern NY and there was one resident that flew in on their small Cessna seaplane. I thought (and still do) it would be the coolest thing in the world to fly into my camp, land,  and pull a plane up to the dock! Hmm, do they call it landing when you touch down in water? Ha!

ttyymmnn > Nothing 07/31/2019 at 10:40

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Landing is landing, whether on land or water. And yes, that would be awesome. 

WilliamsSW > ttyymmnn 07/31/2019 at 10:56

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That’s not a hump, this is a hump:

ttyymmnn > WilliamsSW 07/31/2019 at 11:02

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From two weeks ago:

https://oppositelock.kinja.com/good-morning-oppo-1836277686

just-a-scratch > Nothing 07/31/2019 at 12:36

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If you had a space capsule you could do a splashdown, but that’s not a great procedure for a fixed wing aircraft.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > ttyymmnn 07/31/2019 at 12:58

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Every time I look at a historic plane I think: how big is the toilet? Cause I am gonna have to pee in a couple of hours. 

Nothing > just-a-scratch 07/31/2019 at 14:38

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I used to do plenty of splashdowns when I’d ride my bike off the end of the dock!

InFierority Complex > ttyymmnn 07/31/2019 at 15:25

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The S.55 is probably my favorite of the flying boats. Italo Balbo led a flight of the from Italy to the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair so there’s a bunch of photos of them flying over the city. Really crazy in hindsight but there is still a street and monument named after Balbo in Chicago.

TheRealBicycleBuck > ttyymmnn 07/31/2019 at 15:30

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I’ve considered a Lake 250 for a personal aircraft. They seem to be neat flying boats.

ttyymmnn > InFierority Complex 07/31/2019 at 15:31

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That would have been quite a sight. And probably quite a sound, too.

ttyymmnn > TheRealBicycleBuck 07/31/2019 at 15:32

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You seem to live in a place with plenty of water, too. Might work. 

TheRealBicycleBuck > ttyymmnn 07/31/2019 at 15:36

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I’ve thought the same thing. Even my “home” airport has a sea lane. There was a Lake 250 based there, but the owner recently sold it.