Wow! Great Find. I have not seen these before. to me, it was MUCH more impressive to see Boris V. Korvin-Kroukovsky Flying a Waco on floats and doing loops, aerobatics, and flying inverted with the FLOATS. Says there were over 100 different models of Wacos approved and tested with Edo floats and some of those approved for aerobatics. The film record is great. I happen to have several file drawers full of Korvik-Kroukovsky's personal archives, including original blueprints and hand drawn sketches of his many flying boat and seaplane-float equipped aircraft designs. He was the cheif designer fo Edo. and actually was one of the two principals (alond with Earl D. Osborne "EDO")who formed and operated the Edo company. He also had worked and designed many other seaplanes and flying boats, and even land-based bombers and air racers, for others includng Curtiss and Aeromarine company. He had been an important figure in the Russian Air Service during WWI. As the film clip shows, I never knew he was such an accomplished pilot, as well.
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