avoiding bad weather

The span of two floats is probably wider than the legal road
width in most states.




"Peter Duniho" wrote in
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| "Tater" wrote in message
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| one way to beat IFR i guess. wonder what the costs are?
wonder why the
| transport? no time to see if any dammage.
|
| Airplanes do occasionally get moved around not under their
own power, for a
| variety of reasons. Avoiding IMC is an incredibly rare
reason for that
| (you'd have to *really* need the airplane to be moved, and
have no hope of
| VMC for weeks for some reason), and I doubt that's what
was going on with
| the airplane you saw.
|
| More often, it's a matter of maintenance or recovering an
airplane from an
| accident, that sort of thing. You don't say what
orientation the airplane
| you saw was relative to the truck it was on, but given
that only one float
| was attached, it sounds a lot like a salvage operation to
me. Probably
| broke the other float off during a bad landing or takeoff.
The wings may or
| may not have been damaged in the accident, but removing
them before
| transport would be typical in any case.
|
| There are smaller airplanes designed to be trailered, so
you don't have to
| pay for a hangar or in the case of a floatplane can put
them down a boat
| ramp, but a) you wouldn't normally see them getting moved
with a semi, and
| b) they would be transported with both floats attached
(when so-equipped).
|
| Pete
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