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The powerplant chosen for the Wave in September 2015 was the 180 hp (134 kW) Continental Titan 340 four-stroke engine, mounted in a pusher configuration. [2] In late 2019, Vickers announced a switch to the 141 hp (105 kW) Rotax 915iS four-stroke turbocharged engine, in the same configuration. [4]
Vickers Aircraft Company's first aircraft, a two-seat amphibious seaplane, is called The Wave. [5] The Wave has some unique features unavailable in other similar aircraft, [6] such as a bow thruster and substantially higher horsepower engine. [7] [8] [9]
Three Canadair CL-215 amphibious flying boats. The following is a list of seaplanes, which includes floatplanes and flying boats. A seaplane is any airplane that has the capability of landing and taking off from water, while an amphibian is a seaplane which can also operate from land.
The Canadair CL-215 (Scooper) is the first model in a series of amphibious flying boats designed and built by Canadian aircraft manufacturer Canadair, and later produced by Bombardier. It is one of only a handful of large amphibious aircraft to have been produced in large numbers during the post-war era, and the first to be developed from the ...
The Canadian Vickers Vancouver was a Canadian transport/patrol flying boat of the 1930s built by Canadian Vickers. It was a twin-engine, equal-span biplane . The hull was of metal and the rest of the structure of fabric-covered wood.
Aeromarine 50 1919 transport flying boat, unk no. built; Boeing B-1 1919 transport flying boat, 1 built; SIAI S.13 1919 reconnaissance flying boat, unk no. built; SIAI S.16 1919 flying boat, 100+ built; Supermarine Sea Lion I & II 1919 racing flying boats, 2 built; Vickers Viking, Vulture and Vanellus 1919 amphibious flying boats, 34 built.
Seaplane carrier: Isle of Man Steam Packet: 1907: 1908 (23 March) Sunk on 11 January 1917 by shore-based Turkish artillery fire: RMS Carinthia: Passenger liner: Cunard Steamship Company: 1924: 1925 (24 February) Sunk by a U-boat off the coast of Ireland in 1940: Chusan [30] Passenger liner: P&O Steam Navigation Co: 1947: 28 June 1949: SS City ...
A pusher aircraft is a type of aircraft using propellers placed behind the engines and may be classified according to engine/propeller location and drive as well as the lifting surfaces layout (conventional or 3 surface, canard, joined wing, tailless and rotorcraft), Some aircraft have a Push-pull configuration with both tractor and pusher engines.