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Please ID this NASA high-speed jet seaplane

Hi,

I can’t ID this NASA high-speed jet-propelled seaplane,who
can help ?.

http://i881.photobucket.com/albums/ac16/heshamhasan/2.jpg

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By: hesham - 26th September 2010 at 15:57

Thank you,

it looks like Martin P6M,but the cockpit and rear fuselage
are completely different.

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By: pagen01 - 24th September 2010 at 21:07

It’s not a prototype or production Seamaster!

We know it isn’t a proto or production model of the Seamaster, but it is very likey a hydrodynamic development model. Most complex aircraft at that stage don’t look just like the built version.
By the way, should the title read NACA and not NASA?

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By: merlin70 - 24th September 2010 at 17:01

Looks to me like a Victor with a hull.

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By: MDF - 24th September 2010 at 14:39

It’s not a prototype or production Seamaster! Convair were in the same design competition so may be an early evolution of their offering?
Prototype Seamaster shown below!

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By: FLYING SAUCER - 24th September 2010 at 13:24

It is the closest thing to Martin Seamaster I can find, is it an early prototype possibly?

Beautiful lines!

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By: pagen01 - 24th September 2010 at 13:18

That Convair design looks awfully similar to a SARO swept-wing jet design with a V-tail which also got to the water tank testing stage at Farnborough.
A good point raised in that forum through is that this could actually have been just for a design proposal that didn’t get anywhere, but the main features are very similar to the Seamaster.

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By: BSG-75 - 24th September 2010 at 13:11

I looked here as well Hesham ! 😉

http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,11125.0.html

I don’t use that forum nearly as much but there is some fun stuff there.

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By: pagen01 - 24th September 2010 at 13:08

Wrong number of engines though

The Martin P-6M Seamaster had four engines aswel!

I would say it is for the Seamaster but perhaps in an earlier aerodynamic form, certainly before the intakes were lifted above and aft of the wing leading edges.

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By: longshot - 24th September 2010 at 13:03

Wrong number of engines though :)….bit of Buccaneer and Tu-104 in there, too!

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By: BSG-75 - 24th September 2010 at 13:01

http://www.vectorsite.net/avcmast.html

looking at this image, you could well be right about the Seamaster.

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By: longshot - 24th September 2010 at 12:58

Martin P6M Seamaster, I believe

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