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   From: vpaereru-unmonitored@yahoo.com.invalid   
      
   Le 23/07/2025 à 22:12, Aidan Kehoe a écrit :   
   > Ar an tríú lá is fiche de mí Iúil, scríobh J. J. Lodder:   
   >> Hibou wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> [...] Apparently it depends on the species of duck. Some think they're   
   >>> flying boats, others that they're seaplanes.   
   >>   
   >> On usage: In my English they are all seaplanes,   
   >> to be divided in floatplanes and flying boats.   
      
      
   ObAUE: ... to be divided into...   
      
   Dutch English?    :-)   
      
   > Wikipedia comments that ‘British usage is to call floatplanes   
   “seaplanes”   
   > rather than use the term “seaplane” to refer to both floatplanes and   
   flying   
   > boats.[2].’ I had a strong interest in aviation as a teenager and this   
   usage   
   > seems to have stuck with me; the magazines I read were from the UK. [...]   
      
      
   Just so. Seaplanes have floats on legs, while in flying boats the   
   fuselage forms a hull.   
      
   >> Floatplanes are typically smaller, while flying boats can be huge,   
   >> up to Spruce Goose size.   
   >> AFAIK the flying boats have gone almost completely extinct,   
   >> (some dinosaurs from WWII excepted) [...]   
      
   Canadair flying boats are being used as water bombers in France and   
   elsewhere.   
      
      
      
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