To: Genghis The Engineer
Assuming there were a step on the underside of the hull the aircraft would never get off the water. The floats will be under water when the aircraft is on the water. Any forward movement will cause the floats to “snow-plow” and dig into the water even further. The floats do not have sufficient buoyancy to keep the fuselage higher in the water. Sucking in gallons of water into the carburetor and the props digging into the water not withstanding the aircraft could not rise out of the water.
[ 28 February 2002: Message edited by: Lu Zuckerman ]</p>