…slightly bigger 😉
http://www.davidcbloomfield.co.uk/squadrons/56rsqn-600.jpg
Perhaps the Ross alternative was under way at the time and thought to be the better option?
There are at least two photos of one in the water (the same one), so I imagine that was about how far that project progressed.
Guess this was only a small scale model!
Never heard of a BN-2 on floats.
The sim community shows such conversions.
Also the rc community (here originates the 3-view draw)
If you make a quick google you can find this:
“Delivery Flights – Piston/Turbo-props –
Pilatus Britten-Norman BN-2B Islander, G-HEBR, Night stop between 29-30.11.10. c /n 2132, …. Equipped with floats.”
http://www.aviationinmalta.com/CivilGeneralAviation/Deliveries/DeliveryFlightsPistonTurboprops/tabid/430/language/en-US/Default.aspx
But using this spotter site you will only find Cessna 206 and 208 on floats –
and
Pilatus Britten-Norman BN-2B Islander, G-HEBR, Night stop between 29-30.11.10, c/n 2132, previously registered to Hebridean Air Services. Previous reg G-BJOP.
In an article dating back to 2005 they mentioned this:
“Britten and Norman left the business in 1974, but development continued with a 6,600-pound-mtow, amphibious BN-2A-30. Twin floats were attached to the undercarriage legs and the fuselage incorporated retractable landing gear.”
http://www.ainonline.com/ain-and-ainalerts/aviation-international-news/single-publication-story/browse/0/article/britten-norman-islander-celebrates-40th-anniversary-2278/?no_cache=1&tx_ttnews%5Bstory_pointer%5D=11&tx_ttnews%5Bmode%5D=1
And in 2006 the following:
“Britten-Norman’s Group Chief Executive, William Hynett, said “We are really pleased to have Jeremy Liber on board. Jeremy has some exciting plans that will bring a new impetus to the Islander and Defender aircraft, including cockpit and instrumentation upgrades as well as additional airframe features which we hope will extend to a floatplane variant.”
http://www.worldsecurity-index.com/pressdet.php?id=874
You can find this from the late 90s – thoughts of an Islander Amphibian from Ross Aircraft Company (RAC)
Their website is long gone (heeley.demon.co.uk/)
http://kheeley.tripod.com/rn.htm#SPEC
http://kheeley.tripod.com/rn_sub2.htm
The typical Dornier ‘Flossenstummel’ (sponsons, aerofoil-floats) first appeared in 1918 with the Dornier Rs IV.
Seven Dornier A Libelle I (Dragon Fly) were built and seven slightly bigger Dornier A Libelle II.
Here is a photo to show the sponsons
http://www.seawings.co.uk/images/DoLibelleWR%20ex%20Knut%20Erik%20Hagen%20of%20Norway/2.JPG
G-ABVP is the Monospar S.T.4 – not a S.T.10
http://www.goldenyears.ukf.net/reg_G-A3.htm
a quick g****e shows only this
Lt. Wolfgang Hölzel
http://www.anticrohn.de/Namen/l.xls
“This week Eve Branson, mother of Virgin Atlantic tycoon Richard Branson, writes exclusively for Mirror Woman about how she trained to be a glider pilot during the Second World War before working as an air hostess for British South American Airways – and how her son inherited her adventurous spirit”
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/I+told+my+son+Richard+how+to+be+a+high+flyer%3b+BRANSON’S+MUM+ON+HOW+…-a061304478
Thanks for both replies.
…or the WH453 at BWCM
http://www.bcwm.org.uk/html/gloster_meteor_f_8_wh453.html
N1331 (first series) – hard to find anything – mainly you can find something from
N1331 (second series) Avro Anson
Brooklands?
Aug 8, 2010
http://airfields.fotopic.net/p66533805.html
Where is it going? scrap??
BBC News article ends:
“It is understood the decommissioned 44 tonne airframe is to be dismantled for parts.”
Interesting to follow the development of the outdoor collection on GE (30°21’11.77″N 87°18’17.04″W) between Jan 31, 1994 and Apr 25, 2010
Saab Safir under bridge
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22501028@N07/2970717563/