There are two more smaller ones halfway to the tips of the horizontal
stabiliser.
>
>Only a single vertical stabilizer on the Dolphin, though, Chris.
>
>On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 8:18 AM Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>wrote:
>
>> No, the 314 had four engines and was larger than the Sikorsky. THis
>> was a small 2-engined aircraft. After pouring over a Wikipedia page
>> listing all amphibious aircraft ever made, I found that it was a Douglas
>> Dolphin:
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Dolphin
>>
>> Now that is one very rare sighting.
>>
>> >
>> >Based on timeframe and the three vertical stabilizers, I'd guess the
>> Boeing
>> >314 Clipper.
>> >On May 14, 2016 14:13, "Chris Trask" <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >
>> >> On weekends here one of the broadcast movie channels will show
>> >> entertaining movies from as far back as the 1930s, a series known as
>> >> "Popcorn Movies". Today they started with "Robinson Crusoe on Mars",
>> which
>> >> is always worth watching. But then they followed it with an obscure
>> one,
>> >> "Robinson Crusoe of Mystery Island", which was released in 1936. I
>> almost
>> >> didn't watch this until I saw footage of the airship USS Macon (ZRS-5)
>> >> being towed out of the hangar at Moffett Field:
>> >>
>> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Macon_%28ZRS-5%29
>> >>
>> >> Minutes later there is in-flight and landing film footage of a
>> >> Sikorsky S-42 Flying Boat:
>> >>
>> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_S-42
>> >>
>> >> and shortly afterwards there is footage of a twin-engined flying boat
>> that
>> >> I cannot readily identify. It has the lines of a Grumman design, and it
>> >> has three vertical stabilisers.
>> >>
>> >> The movie itself is a bit corny, but seeing these and possibly
>> other
>> >> aircraft makes it worth watching.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Chris
>> >>
>> >> When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
>> >> - Hunter S. Thompson
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>>
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