Aviation, theorico-pracitcal text-book for students (1919)
Carmina, Benjamin Morreale, 1871- [from old catalog] · New York, The Macmillan company · leaf 72
AVIATION 56 The battens are attached to the bottom of the pontoon to avoid damaging it when the machine is beached. The manner in which the pontoon is attached to a ma- chine gives it a different name. Although all water machines … are hydroaeroplanes, this term is used to designate an aero- plane which has an undercarriage with one or two pontoons attached to it (Fig. 37). A machine which has a pontoon in the place of a fuselage is called a flying boat (Fig. 38). In regard to the number of pontoons used in a hydro-…
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