As an extra bonus, check out the three old Mark Twain-style paddle wheel riverboats in the background! This suggests that the location of the photo is somewhere on the Mississippi (St. Louis?).
Friday, January 9, 2015
A Seaplane called the "Falcon"
Okay, readers, need some help here. The photo below looks a lot like a Curtiss Model F, but I've not found any indication in my Curtiss references that they produced a hull with a double cockpit. Likewise, the hull and interplane struts look similar to the configuration used on the Aeromarine Model 40/50, but I can't find reference to a double cockpit variant. The Aeromarine AMC had three cockpits. Boeing built a twin-cockpit boat, the B-1, but the hull shape was quite a bit different. A check through Aerofiles.com showed no corresponding planes with the model name "Falcon", so I'm guessing that was the owner's name for their fun toy. Anyone have any idea what make/model this is?
As an extra bonus, check out the three old Mark Twain-style paddle wheel riverboats in the background! This suggests that the location of the photo is somewhere on the Mississippi (St. Louis?).
As an extra bonus, check out the three old Mark Twain-style paddle wheel riverboats in the background! This suggests that the location of the photo is somewhere on the Mississippi (St. Louis?).
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Looks like an old P2Y-1 Commodore or prototype.
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Very glad you resumed your most enlightening aviation history posts. My guess: Aeromarine Model 85 (derivative of Curtiss HS-2L)
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