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Historic Aircraft Recovery and Preservation => War / Service Related Aircraft topics => Topic started by: Russ Matthews on February 27, 2011, 01:35:33 AM

Title: Rare British WWI "seaplane lighter" found ...
Post by: Russ Matthews on February 27, 2011, 01:35:33 AM

... on the River Thames and now under restoration for the Fleet Air Arm Museum.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/somerset/hi/people_and_places/newsid_9406000/9406574.stm

Title: Re: Rare British WWI "seaplane lighter" found ...
Post by: Matt Rimmer on February 28, 2011, 08:37:48 AM

Thanks for posting the link Russ,sounds like an interesting project!.

Matt.

Title: Re: Rare British WWI "seaplane lighter" found ...
Post by: Russ Matthews on March 02, 2011, 12:41:33 PM

Oooops .. looks like this was old news!  Just found a link on another online forum which shows this unique aviation artifact was discovered and moved to the FAA museum back in 1996!

http://www.nationalhistoricships.org.uk/ships_register.php?action=ship&id=712

Title: Re: Rare British WWI "seaplane lighter" found ...
Post by: Mark Petersen on March 30, 2011, 03:44:21 PM

Interesting history Russ.  Thanks for posting.  Who would have thought that the roots of naval aviation would go back to "lighter's" such as this.