The French Flying Boat That Was Launched From Warships | Loire 130 [Aircraft Overview #92] 

About plane requests, do you have plans to look at the Dewoitine 520? It's an interesting plane which had a very decorated service life and was actually representative of a very remarkable time in French airplane design, where their designs were very ahead of their time but held back by the technology of the time (like their nose-mounted Hispano cannons being far ahead of their time in the 30s but only being able to fire off 60 rounds).

Nice that you have an FAQ in your comments now. keep up the improvements!

You should make a video about Brazilian airplanes, there is a whole national industry (Embraer is the developer), one example from the 80's is the EMB-312 "Tucan"

May I suggest the Horten FMA IA-38 "naranjero"

Thanks my friend for another fine Aircraft video that i enjoy very much....... Shoe🇺🇸

Aesthetically struck with a cane

Wonderfly descriptive, especially for French bombers and seaplanes of this era.

Would a french floatplane be just as ugly by any other name? 😁🤣😁

I agree. I look forward to using it myself. "Yes, that baby certainly is aesthetically striking." 😜

Lolol

The boat hukk shape is the best looking part! The rest?????

Kinda look good somehow

A plane’s design is sometimes only as good as the paint job. The model at the beginning of the plane looks great. The plane itself doesn’t look bad, but with the paint job, it looks great.

Saying it was better looking than the Walrus is like saying that Northern Canada is currently warmer than liquid nitrogen. Technically it is true, but doesn't really tell you a lot.

As far as ugly interwar French aircraft, this just isn't that ugly lol

Including the questionable aestetics. Let's be honest here, for all the Walrus's undeniable effectiveness, a pretty plane it most certainly is not.

Does she too have the distinction of offending every single hognose snake or did she offend every single walrus?

@@lafeelabriel Flyboat characteristics: sail like a boat stable...take off and land from water AND capable of having VOLUME to carry 'shit'... some range /efficient flying...relative to the time......all those APPLY to the L130 and walrus... No requirements like ..SLEEK design...agile against fighter aircarft...loading torpedos and bombs in the fuselage..having a porcupine setting of massing machineguns againts dozens of enemy fighters...etc..etc...

@@oddballsok I am well aware. But the fact remains that all that can be summed up as "flying boats rarely look aestetically pleasing". Yes, there are exceptions to this, but they are few and far between.

@@lafeelabriel I find the Grumman line -- Geese, Mallards, Albatrosses, etc. -- to be quite eye-pleasing.

Like Ian could ever dare to not cover a French firearm

Stop that Gaullist Pigeon now!

@@emjackson2289 😁😁😁

Those stripes identify planes in service of the Vichy regime

Mutley! Do something!

If he covered more modern aircraft, he could also look at some of the superplanes from Ace Combat games.

As an april fools special it would be a good idea

The old Azur kit. What memories... Short struts and vacu clear parts were dodgy. Capronis: The 310 and relatives are produced by both Italeri and Special Hobby, IIRC. Italeri doesn't have the 310, though.

You can see it in the plan view. I think it was two tanks per wing. These were located inside the inner half of the wing, covered in metal sheet. Cheers.

Or could be a Sikorsky S-39.

In a couple of instances I've discovered I've been pronouncing them wrongly for quite some time.

His role is probably to attach the hook of the crane to the plane

Our drop zone had a Beech 18 . I jumped out of it more that a few times and on one climb to altitude we got the pilot to do a role . It was perfect 1 g role luckily because I couldn't find two seat belt straps that fitted together . Sweet aircraft .

@@rickmoore3730 The other reason I remember the Beechcraft 18 is I grew up in Wichita, Kansas. Which is where they were built.

@@johnforsyth7987 Well that is a good reason to remember it ! I always thought it had beautiful lines and luckily there are a few flying still . The oddest thing for me is when we got up to 10,500' and on jump run once the pilot told us we were just standing still ( ground speed ) due to very high winds and we would have to land . It felt odd landing in an airplane ! LOL

Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time. A *long* time.

The Squirt, as Eric 'Winkle' Brown called it.

G'day, "Beauty is in the Eye of the BEER Holder...!" Also known as the Beer-Goggles Effect. The phenomenon which causes people to seduce Bush Pigs in the wee small hours, thinking they've won a Beauty...; then - come the morning after, and in the Dawnlight realise the magnitude of their error. Apparently, going by the way this thing contrives to be a Monoplane which has as many Struts and their attendant Drag as a Biplane of the same weight and power. Clearly, the Frog-eater who designed this was as pithed as a Newt, and perhaps their Beer-Goggles didn't ever come off... The Rear Gunner's Position was obviously intended to only ever be used when carrying one's Mother-In-Law ; and wanted to put her where nobody had to listen to her list of complaints...(lol). I find this machine to be clunky, boxy, afflicted with 500 Hp or so worth of gratuitously hubristic Drag ; the sort of thing which looks to have been sketched on the back of an Envelope by a Committeeof dypsomaniacs, built of Components supplied by Subcontractors who had never previously met, and then assembled by a Picnic Party of Agricultural Fencing Labourers. French Design is considered to be something of an "aquired taste", as they say...; some people cherish it's quirks, others disparage it on sight. Maybe it harks back to whoever read Tintin Comics as a youngster likes such Frenchification, and those who didn't, don't (?) ! Such is life, Have a good one... Stay safe. ;-p Ciao !

Yah looks like donkey kong and mario

Walrus is a biplane

@@guaporeturns9472 look at the propeller positions..

@@oddballsok 😂😂 yeah ok 👌🏻

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