I don’t think so. There was an article in Air International many years ago about the Pak.Army avaition and many L-19, Bell 47 and Alouette had this scheme.

did the YAK-52 exist when it was the UAR?

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Well…most aircraft are in pretty bad conditions after the invasion in 2003, but I’ve seen pictures of Saddam-era Mi-8/17s still intact, and that is borthering me because the US the dosen’t seem to have the interest of pressing them into service. I think if the Americans give those choppers a little make over then the Mi-17s would be good as new, instead of giving Iraq second-hand crap when more capable stuff are there.”

Any well operating and effective Air Force (and the pilots flying it) would only use equipment which has a maintenance record. Just to pick up equipment and fly is strictly in an emergency. I don’t think we should let a new Iraqi AF fly wrecks, semi-wrecks or unserviced equipment.
Ole

Fantastic job Scramble.
Any pictures of Navy UH-1H and OH-58?
Ole

Flanker_man is right with his definitions of Seaplanes, Flyingboats and Floatplanes. Seaplanes mostly belongs to a time when there was a lack of airports with long runways. Especially amphibium versions of flyingboats were very useful in low developed places of the world like the Pacific and the Arctic areas. I flew the PBY-5A and 6A for 1000 hours in the arctic. We could land everywhere (and especially we could take-off again.) we were not fast (120 knots) but we could stay in the air for 24 hours if we really took care of our petrol. One of the problems was that there was no ILS or GCA in the ocean so landing minimas were high and landing on water is tricky (very) if you land just a little un-coordinated you would rip the boat apart. On the other hand a stall landing was very impressive as the whole aircraft would disappear below water and then pop up. Taking off could be tricky as the slightest little piece of FOD or ice would destroy the aircraft. Calm seas was also against the T/O as we couldn’t get up on the step and gain airspeed. As we use to say “hours of boring flight and minutes of horror”.
Ole