Cessna 150-150 float plane.

This is the Cessna 150/150.*

 

The one she flies is fitted with floats** for landing on lakes. I asked her about landing on choppy water. She said there's a limit but also talked about the design of the float, which has a step up where it touches the water, half way along. This introduces air into the equation and helps the landing. The step is just under the water in this picture. More on this later.

 

By the way, the early private planes were plug ugly, but that glorious wing design that we see here and the other Cessnas, changed all that.

 

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* One of those 150's refers to higher horsepower. The usual is about a hundred.

These are horses that can fly and swim, of course.

** What Michelle calls a "float" I always called a pontoon. Maybe that is out of date, but I like the word.

In the movie with Harrison Ford and Anne Heche, it is pontoons that they are dragging in the water. They ain't draggin' no floats.

 

Photo source: Norcal Aviation:

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