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Offline Ragwing

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China unvails 'world's largest seaplane'
« on: July 25, 2016, 06:56:10 PM »
China's state-run news agency Xinhu announced that the amphibious AG600 is about the size of a Boeing 737 and will be used to fight forest fires and perform marine rescue operations.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/24/asia/china-worlds-largest-seaplane/index.html





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Re: China unvails 'world's largest seaplane'
« Reply #1 on: July 26, 2016, 10:23:25 PM »
That's big... but still not the largest seaplane.   Maybe the biggest PRODUCTION seaplane though. 
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Re: China unvails 'world's largest seaplane'
« Reply #2 on: August 26, 2016, 10:15:55 PM »
also: why does this look like photoshop to me? ...
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Re: China unvails 'world's largest seaplane'
« Reply #3 on: August 28, 2016, 05:44:08 AM »
also: why does this look like photoshop to me? ...

Because it hasn't gone into service yet.  They just finished the airframe and it hadn't even flown.
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Re: China unvails 'world's largest seaplane'
« Reply #4 on: September 12, 2016, 09:55:29 AM »
not much of an "unvailing" then, is it?!
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