Sea Planes

Sea Planes

Sea Planes are planes that are capable of taking off and landing on water.  Most of the Sea planes can take off and land on both land and water and are called Amphibious Aircrafts. They are of 2 types.

A Float plane has slender floats, mounted under the fuselage. Only the floats of a float plane normally come into contact with water.  The fuselage remains above water. 

Henry Fabre was the inventor of first successful seaplane Hydravion.  Till 1971, Henry was sailing his float plane.

(You can see Henry Fabre with Hydravion in the first stamp). 

Astra CM Hydro-avion three-seat floatplane version was the world's first scheduled passenger-carrying flights.

In a Flying boat, the main source of buoyancy is the fuselage which is in contact with water and acts like a ship's hull. They have small floats mounted on their wings to keep them stable.