Further, a submarine will often attack while a seaplanehovers over the enemy in order to draw attention.
With the failure of this ingenious but costly method of attack precautions were at once taken against a repetition and the seaplane hovering inconveniently overhead was driven off.
Yet the decks of the seaplane carrier Engadine were covered with men in motley clothes, a grim reminder of the severity of the ordeal, for they were the survivors from the thousands who had manned the Princess Royal and Invincible.
A seaplane that had been riding on the surface near the Fleet Flagship's quarter, rose like a flying gull, circled in wide spirals over the Fleet and sped seawards.
From subsequent developments it appears that a Hun seaplane saw us and proceeded to bomb us with great good will but indifferent success.
The seaplane drew near and circled gracefully overhead; then it volplaned down and settled lightly on the water at the harbour mouth: a Submarine moved from her moorings to meet it.
The pilot of the seaplane pulled off his gauntlets, pushed his goggles up on to his forehead, and lit a cigarette.
The Lieutenant who had communicated with theSeaplane made his report; his Senior Officer nodded and put down his clubs.
However, the aeroplane will fulfill in the future the uses of the light-cruiser and the torpedo-boat, while a sort of seaplane submarine will fulfill the double purpose of both over and under water work.
Far in the rear there is what at first appears to be an ordinary smug-funneled tramp steamer; but a glimpse of the huge crane and queer, elongated shapes along her decks reveals the seaplane carrier.
As an example, I will attempt to portray the average day’s work of a seaplane pilot on active service, somewhere in the North Sea.
The work at sea is principally scouting for fleets, for a seaplane observer, at an altitude of 5000 feet, has a range of view ten times greater than the look-out man of any battleship or cruiser.
With regard to the actual flying of the craft, where a mere touch of the control is capable of maneuvering the aeroplane up from the ground, it requires the grip of a Sandow’s developer to lift a heavy seaplane off the surface of the sea.
When landing the seaplane on a rough sea, the part of the machine most liable to break up is the float.
The seaplane is usually a much slower craft to climb than the aeroplane, and some time elapses before a decent altitude is reached.
One seaplane pilot of my acquaintance, in order to relieve the monotony, always took his dog, a staid and wise-looking Scotch terrier, with him.
En passant it may be said that a seaplane battle is very similar to a fight between two aeroplanes, though usually more slowly fought out, and hence longer in duration.
Seaplane flying in these days is beset with dangers of many kinds.
I ordered Engadine to send up a seaplaneand scout to NNE.
Stone, United States Naval Reserve, after he was rescued from the Channel, where with a companion he had clung for eighty hours without food and drink to the under-side of a capsized seaplane pontoon.
The navy has not only strained every nerve to turn out aviators and to produce airplanes, but the development of improved types of planes has not been overlooked, and we now have abroad several fine types of seaplane as well as airplane.
The platform drops into the sea, and the seaplane proceeds on its course through the air.
While this was going on a seaplane from the Bay Shore station passed over the heads of the men in the water.
I left our station in a British seaplane as pilot, with Sublieutenant Moore of the Royal Naval Air Service as observer, at 9 o'clock in the morning.
The seaplane is merely an airplane with pontoons, It starts from the ground or from the deck of a vessel.
Then, for a long time, the seaplane sped onward over the blue waters, while Nita tried ingeniously to extract from Davis the details of the fight with the Black Flyer.
The seaplane was laboriously hauled around to the stern of the yacht, and the party was lowered on board.
The sticky, horrible mass was creeping up the float on which the seaplane rode and up the smaller floats at the ends of the wings.
He was affectionately expounding the good points of a monster seaplane drawn up in its hangar by the beach.
Those in the closed car of the big seaplane could only see the star-strewn firmament above them and upon all sides, which sank down, and abruptly was not.
Slowly and reluctantly the seaplane was drawn toward the white vessel.
Hours passed, while the big seaplane winged its way steadily through the night.
Where the float of the seaplane had been he saw a deep depression in the surface of the water, which, as he watched, slowly filled.
As the seaplane flew onward the darker, wave-tossed ocean came toward them and passed below, but blended so gradually with the jellied ocean that it was impossible to tell where the silver sea ended and blue water began.
Below them they could see the spreading wings of their seaplane reflected from the still water.
In a little while the seaplane would be overwhelmed by the viscid, evil-smelling, deadly little animalcules.
Swinging round again Burton adjusted his elevator so as to descend on the lake, and in a few seconds the seaplane was resting on the surface within thirty yards of the spot where the aviatik lay, a mangled heap, on the bank.
The seaplane was slung on board the cruiser, which steamed away northward, through the huge armada of British and French war-vessels, transports, and supply ships that thronged the sea.
Burton started the engine, and, after skimming the surface for a few moments, the seaplane rose like a bird and soared away, ever higher, towards the coast northward.
Here the cruiser hove-to, and the seaplane was slung out.
He brought the seaplane round in an easy curve, at the same time climbing to get above the enemy.
Burton had vaulted into his seat, and, just three seconds before the amazed and furious Turks reached the brink of the water, the seaplane was skimming the surface.
They reported themselves at headquarters, only to learn that, pending the arrival of new machines from England, there was no seaplane ready for them, and they had to resign themselves to kicking their heels for a time.
The aviatik held on its course for a little, then wheeled to the south-west, as if to cut the seaplane off.
I had been asked aboard the Xerxes for an afternoon of seaplaneand balloon practice.
The science of working the seaplane from the deck of a ship is still in process of development.
At practice, a seaplane sails over and drops its detachable wheels near a waiting drifter, which picks them up and returns them to the ship.
The break in the forecastle had been closed in connexion with a sweeping alteration which had converted the whole forward end of the main deck into a roomy seaplane "repository" and repair shop.
Ship's heading up into the wind to let a seaplane go just as they're ready to wind us in.
Its flight over, a seaplane returns to the ship by alighting on the water several hundred yards astern, and floundering up alongside as best it can.
When a seaplane is about to be launched, after the usual preliminary "tuning" up on the launching-stage, the ship is swung dead into the teeth of the wind and put at full speed.
The next two seconds tell the tale, for if a seaplane "gets off the deck" properly, the rest of its flight is not likely to be "eventful.
The operation of picking a seaplane up and hoisting it inboard is a nice piece of seamanship at best, but in bad weather is a practicable impossibility.
In spite of roaring propellers and my cramped bunk I slept excellently that night and did not waken until a sudden stopping of the two engines and a new motion of the seaplane brought me to consciousness.
This seaplane is identified by its signal flags and by the fact that it carries no torpedo.
The torpedo could be fired from the seaplane either as it rested on the water or as it skimmed over the water, say at a height of ten feet, and the released projectile darted straight ahead in the line of the seaplane's flight.
And now Mr. Edison kept his promise generously by securing for me the privilege of accompanying him in a great 900-horse-power seaplane from which, with General Wood, he proposed to witness our attack upon the enemy.
Tim," he said, "we'll hoist your seaplane overboard at once.
The seaplane winged away again and in less than two hours they saw a smudge of smoke on the horizon.
He's going to be a hard customer to lose and he'll probably use that seaplane of his to do a lot of scouting.
Or before Sladek and the Iron Mate arrive," put in Tim, searching the sky for a possible trace of the seaplane from the tramp steamer.
I'd just as soon fly down to the Caribbean," said Tim as he watched the seaplanegracefully circling overhead.
I've got to contact the S-18 with the seaplanein the morning.
He was glad Commander Ford had decided to take a seaplane on the trip.
The seaplane was making a desperate attempt to get under the shelter of the Iron Mate but Tim drove on relentlessly on the tail of the other ship.
Turning to Tim, he added: "You'd better get your seaplane off the deck tonight.
Tim's going to be a mighty valuable member of the expedition for I've decided to take along a small seaplane and he's to do the flying.
The seaplane purchased for their trip was on the dock ready and it took less than half an hour to load the craft on the deck of the S-18 and make it fast.
Willing hands helped fasten the crane and its rigging to the seaplane and the craft was soon lodged safely on the deck of the submarine.
Tim, confident that the seaplane could be made ready for flight in a minimum time, squatted on the deck and watched the operations.
Although this number may include the personnel of the seaplane base yet they would all be available for the defence of the Mole in case of an attack.
At Zeebrugge they had their largest seaplane base in Flanders; another seaplane base was situated at Ostende.
On the Mole a very large seaplane base was established with the original passenger station as its principal building.
When I told him that the boys were in a seaplane at that point, he suddenly became convinced that there must be an island out there somewhere and refused to change his course.
I am unable to offer any worth-while proof for it, but it is my belief that your son and his chum, Alfred Brightwood, are considering a very perilous seaplane journey.
If this storm meant grave dangers to them, what must it mean to two boys in a seaplane skimming through the air over the sea?
But this we do know: Your brother is clinging to the wreckage of a seaplane out there somewhere.
In other words, the same seaplane Freddy and he had lost in that flock of fluffy clouds high in the air.
Tell him to come on in, and see that the men place camouflage over hisseaplane the instant he has landed and has taxied up the inlet.
The seaplane was gently skimming the water almost alongside, and barely fifty yards away.
Sixth Army believed that on Leyte there were five operational airfields; three probably operational or under construction; seven nonoperational; and one seaplane base.
By then the Jap seaplane pilot saw what was going to happen.
Then he tore his eyes off the two men going down by parachute and fastened them on the Jap cruiser's seaplane skimming along the surface of the water.
The slow Jap seaplane came apart as though it had flown full tilt into a brick wall.
The prospect was far from displeasing to Perk--he felt positive that it would be the first time on record when one of Uncle Sam's Secret Service men fought it out with a taxiing seaplane on the subtropical waters of the great gulf.
Perk shifted his gun so that its muzzle kept following the moving seaplane in its advance.
They stood there and continued to listen as the sounds made by the flight of the retreating seaplane gradually grew fainter and even for brief spells died out altogether.
Gee, I hope the old seaplane went everywhere so we can see all the islands," declared Tom.
A couple of chaps don't go touring around the West Indies carrying a seaplane in their handbag and if they'd appeared suddenly at some port, as if flying around, the paper would have mentioned it.
They had no refuge they could reach in the submarine or seaplane when they found us hot on their trail and approaching Aves.
But although their quarry had once more escaped them and had taken to the air, Rawlins insisted they would yet capture him and pointed out that the seaplane must descend and that when it did they should be on hand.
The seaplane passed over Wismar and was headed almost due south.
That's not the first time the Old Boy has used a plane--and you can't grab a seaplaneat any old time and place when the spirit moves you.
Like the subchaser and the submarine, the seaplane operated most successfully in coastal waters.
Keyes, of a reconnaissance flight in which he took part, while attached temporarily to a British seaplane station under post-graduate instruction.
Early in 1918, at the request of the British Government, we took over a large seaplane base which had been established by the British at Killingholme, England, a little sea-coast town at the mouth of the Humber River.
Allies, 266 Seaplanebase at Killingholme, England, taken over by U.
Perhaps the most amazing hit made by any seaplane in the war was that scored by Ensign Paul F.
If the U-boat were lying on the surface, a seaplane or a dirigible was readily seen; but if it were submerged entirely, or even sailing at periscope depth, the most conspicuous enemy in the heavens was invisible.
The objectives of this seaplane attack were the enemy Zeppelin sheds at Tondern, on the Slesvig mainland.
The captain of the submarine waved his cap to the enemy airmen, who concluded that the submarine was a German boat which had brought down an English seaplane and was capturing her pilot.
While she was engaged in sinking the seaplane and taking off her pilot, a German aircraft came over very close.
Diving steeply, the first seaplane swooped down to within three hundred feet.
The seaplane began climbing in vast circles, until it became a mere dot in the now sunlit sky.
Floats were shattered under the impact, and almost before the foam had subsided the wreck of the second seaplane had disappeared beneath the waves.
The gorgeous prospect of seeing a seaplane swoop down upon an incautious Fritz was out of the question.
Morpeth gave no signal to the anti-aircraft gun, although the departing seaplane offered a tempting target.
With a rush and a roar the first seaplane dived steeply, flattening out and passing within fifty feet of the mystery ship's deck.
He encountered more ships than he had expected, a bombardment group of three heavy cruisers and two destroyers, as well as six destroyers escorting two seaplane carrier transports.
He is a tall, well-built man of thirty, who knows a seaplane backwards, and it has been woe to the enemy when he met him.
At the seaplane station I met a young officer who two days before had flown over from England in the early morning and was to dine that same night with friends in London.
By the time the gunnery lieutenant and I reached the ways on which the great seaplane rested, men in overalls, begrimed with oil and dirt, were testing the engine.
The naval officer despatched a seaplane with bread and water, and the pilot delivered it, with other trifling necessities.
You could not imagine anything lonelier than a seaplane on the bosom of the North Sea when you are without food or drink.
In fact, I had no conception of the altitude of the seaplane then.
At the same time, the seaplane just then did not seem to be making any headway.
One of the most beautiful sights that meets the eye of a seaplanepilot is when he comes on the scouting parties of British warships.
We then opened up the engines, and the seaplane rose.
It was my patrol and I started from France at half-past five o'clock in the morning," began the seaplane pilot.
Land' is always used by a seaplane pilot even if there is no land within a hundred miles of him.
