Sea Plane Trips around Vancouver?
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The word "seaplane" is used to describe two types of air/water vehicles: the floatplane and the flying boat.
A floatplane has slender pontoons, or floats, mounted under the fuselage. Two floats are common, but other configurations are possible. Only the floats of a floatplane normally come into contact with water. The fuselage remains above water. Some small land aircraft can be modified to become float planes, and in general floatplanes are small aircraft. Floatplanes are limited by their inability to handle wave heights typically greater than 12 inches (0.31 m). These floats add to the empty weight of the airplane, and to the drag coefficient, resulting in reduced payload capacity, slower rate-of-climb, and slower cruise speed.
de Havilland Otter floatplaneIn a flying boat, the main source of buoyancy is the fuselage, which acts like a ship's hull in the water. Most flying boats have small floats mounted on their wings to keep them stable. Not all small seaplanes have been floatplanes, but most large seaplanes have been flying boats, their great weight supported by their hulls.
The term "seaplane" is used by some instead of "floatplane". This is the standard British usage.[2] This article treats both flying boats[3] and floatplanes[4] as types of seaplane,[5] in the US fashion.
An amphibious aircraft can take off and land both on conventional runways and water. A true seaplane can only take off and land on water. There are amphibious flying boats and amphibious floatplanes, as well as some hybrid designs, e.g., floatplanes with retractable floats. Modern production seaplanes are typically light aircraft, amphibious, and of a floatplane design.
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Try Seair, nivsy
They also have Beavers including the Turbo Beaver, operate out of Richmond and the new Vancouver harbour facility.
Flew them a couple of time last year nanimo, Ganges and was very happy
Flew them a couple of time last year nanimo, Ganges and was very happy
