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The DeHavilland 'Beaver' Floatplane
. . . "In a time when tube and fabric airplanes were the standard, DeHavilland Canada broke the mold when they built the Beaver. The Beaver was a result of a survey of bush pilots requests for the ultimate bush-plane. The combination of the powerful Pratt and Whitney Radial engine and high lift wing and large doors created the benchmark by which all floatplanes are measured.
The Beaver has endured the test of time having its fiftieth anniversary in 1998. The Beaver has been voted one of Canada's ten greatest engineering achievements of the twentieth century." . . .
While at anchor in Horton Bay on Mayne Island in the Gulf Islands, British Columbia, Canada... this float plane casually drops out of the sky... picks up three people at a private dock... and leaves passing near the ‘Serenity’... I wanted to catch the actual rotation [take off] but had I waited, the angle would have been wrong... and also wish I had had the time to stop down the ExposureCompensation a bit… just took what I could... one of those ‘decisive moments’….
Perhaps you can feel the Doppler-ing roar of a full throttled rotary piston aircraft engine as it passes, followed by the caress of pontoon spindrift on the skin, blown in from the diminishing prop wash…..
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