September 24, 2010 at 12:47 pm
Hi,
I can’t ID this NASA high-speed jet-propelled seaplane,who
can help ?.

By: hesham - 26th September 2010 at 15:57
Thank you,
it looks like Martin P6M,but the cockpit and rear fuselage
are completely different.
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?
By: merlin70 - 24th September 2010 at 17:01
Looks to me like a Victor with a hull.
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!
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!
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.
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.
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.
By: longshot - 24th September 2010 at 13:03
Wrong number of engines though :)….bit of Buccaneer and Tu-104 in there, too!
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.
By: longshot - 24th September 2010 at 12:58
Martin P6M Seamaster, I believe