Flying boats

[Mild Bill]

Originally Posted by Benoit Lescot

...this 6 engines seaplane is a replica (4 seater) of a beautiful 40s era french seaplane, ....

Would that happen to be the Latécoère 631?

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The French certainly do have an eye for elegant design.

[tunnels]

[quote=Mild Bill;368764]Would that happen to be the Latécoère 631?

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The French certainly do have an eye for elegant design.[/QUOTE]

No doubt about that at all !sure is nice looking even at that age . So what have we done thats that good in these times

[Mild Bill]

The SR-71 Blackbird.

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[tunnels]

Originally Posted by Mild Bill

The SR-71 Blackbird.

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What are the white patchs on the plane (number 3 )??

[Guest62110524]

there is a cat sunk in 200 ft water in Havana harbour Vanuatu, , according to my old pal, who dived her in 1980 she is in excellent condition

[Benoit Lescot]

Would that happen to be the Latécoère 631?

that would be it
sexyest looking flying boat ! (by my standards)

[Mild Bill]

Originally Posted by tunnels

What are the white patchs on the plane (number 3 )??

Water vapor condensing into water droplets in the low pressure areas at the cores of the vortices generated by the "arrowhead" at the nose, the sharply swept leading edge of the wing, and the leading edge extensions outboard of the engine nacelles.

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[tunnels]

Originally Posted by Mild Bill

Water vapor condensing into water droplets in the low pressure areas at the cores of the vortices generated by the "arrowhead" at the nose, the sharply swept leading edge of the wing, and the leading edge extensions outboard of the engine nacelles.

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Fantastic sites you sent !!
Thank you ! I knew what they were just wondered how many other people knew what and how they were formed . When i fly i always like to sit at a window to be able to see this when we take off and have a few photos of just those trails . I used to have a friend that was a flight engineer and he said to watch for them and explained waht hey were and waht caused them . Of the thousands of people that fly i wonder if any of then realise what it actually is ?
Thank you so much for the pictures !!
Always something new to learn every day !!

[samcool111]

In my opinion, CFD need huge computers...
Fluent V6.x maybe a good choice. I've read many papers about that from hydrofoils to very fast ships and boats.