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Anything But Wheels
By Dave O'Malley
Here in Canada, when you meet a pilot who owns his or her own airplane, it won't
There are not too many countries in this world where this is a relevant question
Canada as a general aviation pilot, you do a lot of your flying over
To qualify to be saved to the Anything BUT Wheels folder, a photo had to be of a
military/combat aircraft on floats or skis that was NOT designed from the get go
as a float plane, flying boat, or bush plane. I started with fighter aircraft,
but soon branched to military aircraft of all sorts - except purpose-built float
aircraft. The folder first contained images of Spitfires on floats and P-51
Mustangs on skis, but soon there were trainers and the odd transport aircraft
(though these had to be military transports). I wanted to explore the one-offs,
the failures and the successes, not for any other reason than that it was,
well... cool....
Full Article with many outstanding pictures:
http://www.vintagewings.ca/VintageNews/Stories/tabid/116/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/494/Anything-But-Wheels.aspx
Or use the shortened URL: http://bit.ly/1yKWA8D
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