Aeromarine 700 Explained

Model 700
Type:Floatplane
National Origin:United States of America
Manufacturer:Aeromarine
First Flight:1917
Primary User:US Navy
Number Built:2[1]

The Aeromarine 700 was an early US Navy seaplane developed in 1917 to investigate the feasibility of using aircraft to launch torpedoes. The aircraft itself was a large biplane of conventional three-bay configuration equipped with two pontoons, powered by a 100hp Aeromarine K-6. Only six examples were built (AS142-AS144, all of which were damaged early on, with parts of AS143 being used to repair AS440 of the 2nd batch, AS439-AS441.

Operators

US Navy

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Notes and References

  1. https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2012/september/historic-aircraft-some-first United States Naval Institute. "Historic Aircraft - Some of the First" magazine by Norman Polmar. Volume 26, Number 5