amphibious aircraft


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Noun1.amphibious aircraft - an airplane designed to take off and land on wateramphibious aircraft - an airplane designed to take off and land on water
aeroplane, airplane, plane - an aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets; "the flight was delayed due to trouble with the airplane"
pontoon - a float supporting a seaplane
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ENPNewswire-September 4, 2019--AVIC Shows Its Capability at 2019 MAKS; AG600 amphibious aircraft debuts international airshow
2 helicopters, BE 200 CS amphibious aircraft of MES's Aviation Detachment and many live forces were involved in the site in order to extinguish the fires.
An amphibious aircraft and hundreds of people are involved in search operation after a 53-year-old tourist from Almaty went missing in the Issyk-Kul Lake, Sputnik Kazakhstan reported.
The CL-515 is a newly developed, technically advanced multi-mission aerial firefighting aircraft -- the next generation of the CANADAIR CL-415, the aviation industry's benchmark amphibious aircraft and the backbone of firefighting missions around the globe.
In another development, AVIC has announced that in the near future it will start construction on four additional prototypes of the AG600 - the world's largest amphibious aircraft - to speed up test flights.
By the summer of 1937, the <<Pan American>> Company on his four-engine amphibious aircraft of the S-42 type began to successfully serve the transpacific and transatlantic routes [7].
IANS | Beijing China's home-grown amphibious aircraft AG600, claimed by Beijing as the world's largest, carried out its first take-off and landing on waters on Saturday.
The world's largest China-made amphibious aircraft is capable of landing on and taking off from Beijing's outposts in the South China Sea.
After months spent alone on the radioactive atoll of Moruroa, Jennifer is rescued by an amphibious aircraft, piloted by a marine biologist and his crew.
Summary: Guangzhou [China], Dec 24 (ANI): China's first home-made large amphibious aircraft finished its first ever flight on Sunday in south China's Guangdong Province.
China's first home-grown large amphibious aircraft AG600 on Sunday took to the skies for maiden flight,Xinhuareports.

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