islander wrote: 
What's the range? Can you get to Macau and put it on red?

 Red_Dragon wrote: 
Yeah, but I was thinking that instead of making a flying boat like that it would be cool to just mount it on a pair of floats like this:


More weird eccentric that practical, and I think the FAA would have a stroke making up new paperwork, but you would be the first guy to the remote salmon camp. 

 islander wrote: 
Yeah; see where the engines are?

 Red_Dragon wrote: 

 Red_Dragon wrote: 
how do they do with beer?

 islander wrote: 
If it were a turboprop you might have a chance, but jet engines don't react well to ingesting water.

 buzz wrote: 
Maybe if you took careful aim, but you could only do it once and it would be anything but smooth. I'd recommend against it.

but now that you bring it up, I wonder if we could fit it with floats?

 islander wrote:  
can you land it on your ship?

 islander wrote: 
Yeah, but when you really need to get to the Mayo Clinic...

 islander wrote: 
It is extremely cool looking.

 ptooey wrote: 
It's a pretty cool piece of kit.  The other one is in better shape and had a TON of money thrown at it in ~2006. They are pretty sleek for 40-50 year old planes (this one is a 1970 model). 

 islander wrote: 
Sweeeeeeeeeet.

 ptooey wrote: 
What do you think I was doing before taking the picture?

 ptooey wrote: 

 islander wrote: 
Can you at least sit in the cockpit and make airplane noises?

So the air ambulance guy I was helping fell apart and left a lot of debt and angry people behind. While dealing with them on options I finally put together a deal to clean up some of the problems and handle the legacy assets. I'm now the managing member of a new LLC called Aircraft Technologies, and this is our first confirmed new asset. 


 

There is one more that's actually in a lot better shape that will be official next week. 

Too bad I'm too poor to actually use them (they burn about $1,000 an hour in fuel, and have another $1,500 an hour in costs and maintenance reserves). But they go 400 MPH!

 Red_Dragon wrote: 
Your cats fall asleep on airplanes and snore loudly?

If you set it out there like that, some one is going to swing at it...

 Coaxial wrote: 
I think we need something similar for one of our cats for the very same reason.

 islander wrote: 
That and come in handy as a flotation device.

 Coaxial wrote: 
Looks like it would be good for long flights too!