Warbird Information Exchange

I'd never heard or seen this before. Pretty good color film footage of a Grumman Goose on a hydrofoil.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yolgS1bn7P8

The multi-bottomed Widgeon mentioned in the film is, I believe, on display at the Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson

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Lest Hero-worship raise it's head and cloud our vision, remember that World War II was fought and won by the same sort of twenty-something punks we wouldn't let our daughters date.

Wow..this is great!

Just a few years a go this would have been classified!!!

Thank you for sharing.

Yep - and at 4:35 in the video he mentions seeing it in Trade-A-Plane:

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All right, Mister Dorfmann, start pullin'!
Pilot: "Flap switch works hard in down position."
Mechanic: "Flap switch checked OK. Pilot needs more P.T." - Flight report, TB-17G 42-102875 (Hobbs AAF)