Skiplanes & Seaplanes | Float Plane Homebuilt Twin Another Oshkosh attracts so many unique planes. This twin homebuilt float plane water taxis into the seaplane base just after a nice evening flight. For more information, see Oshkosh Seaplane Base | a 7 Image Story.
Skiplanes & Seaplanes | Howard DGA-15 on Floats Another beautiful floatplane rests in the quiet water of the Oshkosh Seaplane Base.
The Back Story The Howard DGA-15 is a single-engine aircraft produced by the Howard Aircraft Corporation from 1939 to 1944. The DGA-15 is a high-winged monoplane with a wooden wing and a steel-tube-truss fuselage wide enough to sit five people comfortably. For more information, see Oshkosh Seaplane Base | a 7 Image Story.
Skiplanes & Seaplanes | Homebuilt on Floats In the late afternoon, the trees around the Oshkosh Seaplane Base also provide quiet shade or pilot and Plane.
The Back Story Instead of spending the day at Oshkosh Air Adventure, a day at the seaplane base can be more relaxing and provide the opportunity to capture some interesting in the sun and shade.. For more information, see Oshkosh Seaplane Base | a 7 Image Story.
Skiplanes & Seaplanes | Homebuilt Floatplane The Oshkosh Seaplane Base also provides quiet water for this homebuilt.
The Back Story Instead of spending the day at Oshkosh Air Adventure, a day at the seaplane base can be more relaxing and provide the opportunity to capture some interesting planes. For more information, see Oshkosh Seaplane Base | a 7 Image Story.
Skiplanes & Seaplanes | Beautiful Beaver on Floats The Oshkosh Seaplane Base provides quiet water for this Beaver. And after an afternoon at Oshkosh, it provides a very low key place to kick back for its pilot.
The Back Story The De Havilland Beaver may be the best bush plane ever to put on a pair of floats. It certainly captures the attention and the imagination of many pilots. This pilot can imagine flying along an Alaskan river or road in a valley between 14 thousand foot glacier mountains in a Beaver. The Beaver has become the gold standard for the bush flying with several hundred planes still in service across Alaska, Canada, and the Pacific Northwest. For more information, see Oshkosh Seaplane Base | a 7 Image Story.
Skiplanes & Seaplanes | Super Cub on Floats Takeoff A PA-18 Piper Super Cub on floats can take-off from relatively small lakes. Northern Michigan provides some beautiful lake front backgrounds when capturing floatplane images. This Super Cub has one float up out of the water while the other floats remains on the water. The maneuver reduces drag and allows the plane to get off the water sooner.
The Back Story This image was captured from a speeding motor boat. The challenge was to keep the shutter speed low enough to blur the propeller yet still fast enough to get a sharp image while riding in a bumpy motor boat. See Floatplane Weekend | a 7 Image Story for more information.
Skiplanes & Seaplanes | Cessna 195 on Floats The quiet waters of the Oshkosh Seaplane Base allows the photographer time to make a nice natural image in a secluded environment.
The Back Story The Cessna 195 Businessliner embodies the look of yesterday with better creature comforts than modern planes. Developed in 1947, it was Cessna’s first all-aluminum aircraft with rounded cantilever wings, a radial engine, and a cabin seating five. It quickly became a great utility plane on wheels or floats. For more information, see Oshkosh Seaplane Base | a 7 Image Story.
Skiplanes & Seaplanes | C-185 Landing on Grass Landing on the “mains” is very important. Those “nose” wheels won’t take much abuse. A nice long lens makes this this image possible.
The Back Story This beautiful Cessna 185 on floats from Northwoods Aviation showed us how it’s done at the Memorial Day fly-in breakfast at Home Acres Airport in Lake City , Michigan.
