Wouldn't it be cool to retract conventional floats?

"Richard Riley" wrote in message
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On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 14:19:02 -0500, "dlevy" wrote:

Any designs out there?
..... just curious. I've never seen anything like that.


There are the retractable wingtip floats on the Grumman amphibs - I
think they were an option on the Widgeon and the Goose. Those are the
only ones I can think of.