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The Albatross is a way cool plane.

RIP Terry Smith!!

Where to get some surplus JATO?😮

This Same plane that caught fire years ago, I wonder if it’s still flying

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Any critique on the plane? Engines power distance in flight amount of passengers....

watch the flaps

Grumman sure make beautiful airplanes, I LOVE the way they tuck their gear up into the wheel wells! I was an aircraft engineer in the Air Force in the 70's always to fly in a sea plane or flying boat - never got the chance ☹

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I never understand how these types of planes do a run up and magneto check in the water.

The air-frame, floats and wing are so good that an Australian company is coming out with a turbine powered version, brand new from the original plans. The common and modern PT6 turbines are planned, since they feel that there is a market in the Asian island-rich countries and other resort areas around the world. I love the sound of these radials, too, and they are much more fuel efficient.

Make an investment / factory in Indonesia. 16.377 islands

Was it heavy on take off and why all the water still streaming on flypast??

great stuff

Troppo lento e poco motore.

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Awesome video. The Albatross is a huge amphibious airplane compared to a Mallard. I've only being around one in the Caribbean years ago. What a wonderful sound. Thanks for sharing.

Sell me this goes amphibious aircraft, and sold me this water lake, how much it costs, I bring everything to my country, I used as a means to go to school,

I used to fly the HU-16 in the Air Force, We had the Triphibian's also. The only way to tell on by looking at it is to look at the pontoon. If it looks like it had a flag pole type pipe attached on the forward end of the pontoon to hold the ski, you have the triphibian. That is too much water trailing the plane. After landing and before takeoff, the flight mechanic checks the keel bays for water. The inspection holes are down the middle of the plane, Lift the cover and it should be absolutely dry. One inspection cover is different, you are looking at the lake. We used to play a trick on new crewmembers by having them check the bilges for water. They would of course find one full of water (lake) and report what they found. We would bring out the bilge pump and show them how to manually pump the water out. We would leave them there pumping away as we left in a boat for the dock. When we returned, they would say they pumped really hard while we were gone but it only went down a couple of inches (probably because the plane rose a bit with several people getting off). If you have a leak, the bilge, it will fill with water to the water line. It can increase the gross weight considerably causing a longer takeoff run and slow climb as the water drains out. That looked like a climb for an overweight airplane.

must have leak, sure did stream a lot of water.

His gear should have come up the second he was floating.

I flew in them back in the 50s as a kid. Only air transport in the pacific islands. Landing and taking off on water. Great fun and great memories. Still have a picture of my dad and mom posing one one in the water.

someone should fix the hull leak

Where is all the water draining from?

Great! Always dripping water ...

Great video of a beautiful bird. Thanks for sharing

Are these extra gasoline-tanks below the wings ?

The last 5 seconds are really cool.

Did someone forget to close the drains before putting it in the water?

USCG was still flying these out of NAS Corpus Christi in 1975 when I was stationed there

WOW That was AWESOME!

Very cool video, thanks for posting. I built a plastic model of this kit when I was a kid in the 80's

Totally cool plane!,

I helped pull one of these out of the bone yard in the early 1990's in Arizona. Guy by the name of AL C. Of Utah and Soldotna AK God rest his soul, and a guy by the neme of Bill D. in Tuc. AZ of the AK "Dempsey Dumsters" reworked it. I'm proud to say I was probably the youngest kid to every be in charge of the boat when it was not in the Navy. I never got to fly in it though. Nither did my brother before his untimely death. I would really like the opportunity if anybody knows someone that can help me make that happen. I would really love show my kids a true piece of American History 1 day. I put thousands of hours into that project. Message me and I'll see if I can't drop some pictures of her first out of the bone yards. So Bob if you read this you'll know who I am. Please contact me. It's been way to long.

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What's the status of this aircraft? Is she still airworthy? The FAA shows her registration has expired and was not renewed.

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wonderful tone. what is the material on the end of the sticks please?

Climb baby climb!

Are the engines strong enough?

My grand father once flew one of them here in Kiel/Germany at the MFG5 "SAR/Marinefliegergeschwader 5 "in the late 60's/ early 70's of last century :-)

Bo sounds great! Used to do a lot of reggae and calypso gigs in San Diego together. Always had a blast. We both had real long hair back then too. :o)

Wow, great stuff you guys!!

In our 84th Air Rescue Squadron we had about three SA-16A a couple of H-19 helicopters and one C-47. I asked on two different occasions to fly in one of the helicopters but was denied. The excuse being that they would be flying low and if a problem came up then we probably be killed. We needed to get our parachutes inspected and for some reason Earding AFB couldn't do it although this had been done in the past. I found out that I could come along with our parachutes and fly to Wiesbaden AFB for the inspections. I quickly got a three day pass and planned to visit some friends in Wiesbaden city. I took a suit case, my steel guitar and amp. I came back on a train. By the way they did use the rocket assist bottles to experiment taking off as quickly as possible. I joined the ARS about Aug 1951 in Wiesbaden and left for home about Aug 1954.

Cut the video wayyyyyyyyy to short.

He's beautiful!

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