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Look Mate! No brakes!!!! I wonder if you would need wooden shoes for those? :lol:

Looks like the wheel says, "Do Not ______." Can you read any of the remaining writing?
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I can't believe you guys haven't figured this out. In anticipation of the war in the Pacific making the need for a P-51 on floats; North American Dallas hired Texas A & M to do design work for such use, and knowing wood floats this is what they came up with. Strange it never seemed to catch on.

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No Bill, what you are describing were for the T-6, not the P-51:

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hmmm.
First wood wheels...
Then T-6 walking on the water.
I thought bdk was pulling a little photoshop joke, but then I
found out that this is really done by locking your brakes?
What???
See image link.
http://www.dougronan.com/ontario/images/InterestingFloat/Water_Skluscombei.jpg

http://www.dougronan.com/ontario/images/OSAinteresting_floatplane_pictures.htm
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ONTARIO SEAPLANE ASSOCIATION(Actually if you lock the brakes on just about any airplane you can ski across the water!!? I've heard it done with a Grumman AG-Cat, C-180, and a 65 Champ up the Holland River. I've seen it first hand with a C-150 as well!!)


This can't be safe.
They keep that up, and they will need the wood for the casket, not the wheels.


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does the name DUTCH KINDELBERGER RING A BELL?? the designer behind the p-51. dutch...... wood shoes, get it?? i couldn't resist!!! ok.... you all can thrash me with a wet noodle now!!!

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If I was going to walk on water in a land plane, I would want some very devout and saintly person as my co-pilot.

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Bill Greenwood wrote:
If I was going to walk on water in a land plane, I would want some very devout and saintly person as my co-pilot.

You mean like someone from Texas A & M? :lol:
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Blue, I wrote "devout and saintly", not deviant and smelly.

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Blue, I wrote "devout and saintly", not deviant and smelly.


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If you don't lock the breaks, the wheels will dig in and over you go.

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bdk wrote:
Looks like the wheel says, "Do Not ______." Can you read any of the remaining writing?

F..L, and I assume a Y is lurking in the shadow. Probably some boneheads idea
of a joke..looks like my handwriting, tho wrong vintage. :)

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If you don't lock the breaks, the wheels will dig in and over you go.



Do we have proof of this?

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As to the water-skiing Harvards...

WIX is your friend. See Steve Patterson's post, bottom of Page 3.

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Smaller a/c like cubs and supercubs is brakes off. Don't know about T-6's. It doesn't require as much finesse as one thinks. There is a video of a cub skiing right at the camera man. The guy plunks it onto the water pretty hard. Of course the 8.00 x 4's on a cub are pretty wide.

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