It certainly seems a crazy way to overcomplicate the matter but there were a number of them beforeWW2.

Here's a British one, incorrectly labelled "world's first" which it manifestly was not.
https://www.britishpathe.com/video/f...r-in-the-world

btw, Asturias, in what way was the Cid a "first"?

This one was the first though, an Archdeacon-Voisin of 1905 I think. Or is it just an elaborate pedalo?

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....67d69b7181.png

For the record meleagertoo is correct - I had a bad moment when I realised I'd left in the Portuguese flag but it was so small.......

It was, I believe, the First Portuguese designed and constructed aircraft. They'd built a lot of stuff under Licence before but nothing indigenous

First Portuguese Airplane: A Flying-Boat Glider―1934

On February 1st 1934 Joe Walter presented a gliding section creation proposal where it was included the flight report study and the flight graph of the flying-boat glider of Eng. Artur Varela Cid, the first designed and constructed in Portugal (construction finished in 29 September 1932) with its first maiden flight on January 4th 1934. This flying-boat glider was named “Portugal” and presently can be found at the Air Museum of OGMA, Oficinas Gerais de Material Aeronáutico (The General Aeronautical Material Workshops) at Alverca, Portugal. Few months later still in 1934, in a lecture at Society of Geography at Lisbon, Professor Varela Cid advocates the creation of Non-Pow- ered Flight Schools, where gliders construction would be included and where rigorous theoretical training would be given.

OK.
Here comes the next one.

No doubt Asturias will recognise it as if it were one of his grandkids!

This one really is an oddity though. As far as I can tell a genuine global one off, not a mere local "first".



https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....88544d9ebf.png

I do recognise it - now that REALLY is a one off (thank god). You wonder what drives some people to build something like that - most of us might have the idea and then laugh but he had to go and build one.

I'll leave it for others.:p

Don't lean back in the cockpit....


https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....2edda20745.gif

Avro Short ‘Back ‘n sides’.

That prop must have folded in some way for the alternative use of the rest of the plane. There are pictures of it flying but not doing the other task - or I haven't seen them

Even worse than that LOL - I believe the 'pilot' had to remove the prop before submerging :)

For God's sake someome just name the dam thing and we can hopefully progress beyond yet futher depths of Asturias's and Noyade's encyclopaedic minds.

Reid Flying Submarine 1

"yet futher depths of Asturias's and Noyade's encyclopaedic minds."

If only - I can't speak for Noyade but my mind resembles a colander - a vast amount of info passes through but what is caught are the lumpy, unpleasant bits you really want to ditch............... :(

Zaxis has it!

I have found 2 pictures partly submerged.
I think not completely the right attitude.

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....98a5bda7c.jpeg
https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....e24a0dabf.jpeg

Was it nicknamed the Turtlesh!t?

Croc'o'**** more like.

How things have changed! These days he'd be all over the media claiming he had the backing of major"investors", was going to build at 100 a month at (insert name of gullible local government) and it would be fully certified in 12 months

The Flying Submarine kept me busy for hours, this I hope is easier

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....f096b77b3c.jpg

Very clever cropping Zaxis! :ok:

Very clever hiding the answer in a hyperlink! :cool:
Do you want control??

No thanks mate. Take another turn of make it open house. Cheers! :ok: