Manufacturer: Shorts / Dornier Model: S.800 Name: SeaVan Type: Flying-boat airliner Date: Status: Demonstrator Country: Germany Service: Commercial Designation: none |
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Synopsis: Elaboration: I have always loved flying boats. Whenever I love an aircraft and want to play around with it, the seaplane is always a subject of choice... The Shorts Skyvan already inspired me to do a helicopter version, but its original lines and bulky fuselage lends itself to many other variations. On seeing the photo of a beautiful white Shorts 360 the idea to couple it with another photo I'd saved of a Dornier SeaStar hit me right away. Shorts had done many seaplanes in the past, and had an aircraft named the Skyvan; Dornier was Germany's seaplane specialist and they had done aircraft named the SkyServant and the SeaStar... How appropriate to imagine a collaboration between the two companies and a new model named the SeaVan! Although the tail was redesigned, the fuselage and wing those of the SD-360 while the bottom of the hull and engines are the SeaStar's (in this case placed on each wing instead of central on top of the fuselage). I find the end result quite pleasant and not so far-fetched. Certainly it would be great to see the age of the big flying boats come again! Do you like this one? Viewers' comments:
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