Monday, September 17, 2018

1932 Boeing 4 person flying boat prototype


Boeing of Canada designed this small aluminum-hulled 4 person flying boat in 1931 and 32. The chief designer had came from Canadian Vickers and Saunders Roe and the aircraft showed little relationship to other Boeing designs. It was reported that the aircraft had excellent characteristics both in the air and on the water. Only one prototype was built and the airplane (owned by Canadian Airways) spent its life in British Columbia till 1942 when it appears to have been scrapped.

http://progress-is-fine.blogspot.com/2016/12/boeing-canada-213-totem.html

2 comments:

  1. I'll write it again:

    really good looking airplane, and it does indeed remind me of other other SARO designs. Also liked that 'It was reported that the aircraft had excellent characteristics both in the air and on the water'.

    This was unlike one of the Danish navy's first aircraft, a nice looking wooden flying boat named 'The Seagull'. In an book about Danish military aviation, historian Captain John Foltmann noted that "...it should have been called 'The Hen', as it possessed this otherwise excellent birds capabilities in the air as well as on the water."

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