Float planes are regular planes fitted with Floats to land on water, and usually smaller. Flying boats are designed to land directly on their hulls. The pontoons on this and other flying boats are for stability purposes, not really floatation.

It was supposed to go up for sale at Walmart at 1pm yesterday.  It didn’t go up until around 6, and the sneakerbots got them all in about 15 seconds.

It’s using the engineering from Seige Sideswipe

“Bell’s V-280 Valor looks like a cross between the Blackhawk and the V-22 Osprey, using tilting engines instead of a tilting wing assembly.”

...Neither of these aircraft using tilting wing assemblies.

“A ship, not unlike the ghostly USS Eldridge, in the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in 1941”
That ship is the Battleship USS North Carolina, 44,000 tons, with a crew of over 2200. USS Eldridge was a Destroyer Escort, 1,400 tons, with a crew of 200.

They are not unlike soley in the sense that they floated, and they had guns.

I love this thing. It’s a bit on the large and heavy side, but with both built-in wall charger, AND charging cable, it is super convenient to travel with, and I’ve never fully depleted it, despite using it to keep a tablet and phone charged all day during convention work.

I love this thing. It’s a bit on the large and heavy side, but with both built-in wall charger, AND charging cable,…

“A pivotal component of this ruse was extremely heavy shelling that only the USS Missouri and USS Iowa’s 16 inch guns could provide.” Rest of the article correctly mentions the Wisconsin- Iowa and New Jersey were already being deactivated during Desert Storm