I did a model of one of these when i was a kid. Really neat plane.
It has landing gear that fold up into the pontoon.
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So... is it like a single-blade skater on ice, so to speak?
Usually I think of aqueous planes having two points of landing-on-water stability, but I guess these had... a main 'blade' under the main structure, then two smaller steadying blades, out under the wings?
This has got to be either pure genius or pure lunacy, no? (lol)
Itt is like a katamaran, having, like you said, the single large bit in the middle, then the two smaller bits on the wings.
I remember when i was building the model kit thinking the main fuselage looked like a wooden clog... Then I attached wings to it.
A trimaran then, catamarans have two hulls. Pretty neat!
Duck pic.