Tag: sponsons

• Boeing 314 Clipper – Part Two – Slicker

  

  And as slick as only a flying boat can be – particularly if it is not an amphibian. Not too many designs of the flying boat era eschewed outboard pontoons or floats. Whether they were local or overseas designs, few used the hull-and-sponson configuration to stop the boat tipping to the side once landed. And…

  Dick Stein

  April 11, 2026

  1:144 scale, airliner, American aircraft, Civil aircraft, design, Model Airplane, prototypes

  Airfix, flying boat, sponsons