Talk:List of flying boats and floatplanes

Odd moves

Um, what was the point of that move? —Morven 07:02, Dec 16, 2004 (UTC)

Uh, what move? -Lommer | ^talk 20:57, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)

This move:

20:56, Dec 15, 2004 Ingoolemo (List of flying boats and seaplanes moved to List of seaplanes and flying boats)

In other words, User:Ingoolemo did a move that reversed the order of 'flying boats' and 'seaplanes' in the title. I was curious as to the point. —Morven 01:04, Dec 17, 2004 (UTC)

That's really bizzarre - the move doesn't show up in the page history (isn't it supposed to? where did you get it from?). However, I do see what he's doing though, there's already a category called "List of seaplanes and flying boats", and he wanted the associated article title to match. So rather than edit every article in the category over to a new category he just changed the the title of this one. -Lommer | ^talk 06:11, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)

It shows up in the page history of the PREVIOUS name, not this one. In other words, in the history of the redirect that's created at the old name. Annoyingly, the article existed way before categories, so by rights it should have been the other way round ... —Morven 06:32, Dec 17, 2004 (UTC)

I'd think that it's because seaplanes is a more generic term; flying boats is more specific. User:justfred

I notice that there are entries under the country heading 'Croatia' that list aircraft built in other countries (Canada, USA). This does not appear to be consistent with the general structure of the article, which appears to only list aircraft under their country of manufacture. I think that this Croatia entry should be removed, but I am hesitant to do it myself because I have not previously contributed to this article. PanEuropean (talk) 21:06, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

organization

I would expect these to be organized, first by country then by either manufacturer then year or model, or by year somehow. Moved the early ones to the top of US section. Do these ALL need to be listed, or only the common ones? Or only the manufacturers?

In fact, isn't this page really replaced by category:seaplanes and flying boats? --user:justfred

Yes, it is. However, if the category is to be as useful as this page then it needs to be broken into country-specific sub-categories and then the entries sorted by date. This is easy enough to do and once done, this page should be deleted I think.-Lommer | ^talk 19:16, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Are floatplane variants included?

I added two DH Beavers. This is a secondary application of this aircraft. Leonard G. 02:10, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

New amphib to ad

The Air Tractor 802F can also be added to this list. See www.firebossllc.com - the aircraft is now flying fire fighting missions in Minnesota through the MNDNR. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.73.30.164 (talk) 06:20, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

New name

This has been discussed elsewhere (probably on WT:AIR), though I don't recall when exaclty. Anyway, I've decided to be bold and correct the title to better represent the article's content, as flying boats ARE seaplanes (though not floatplanes, which is probably what was confused here). Amphibious aircraft are generally defined separately from full-time seaplanes, though the difference is offten just whether or not the aircraft is fitted with wheels. Even so, I believce the new title is more comprehensive and accurate. - BillCJ (talk) 10:56, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

What qualifies?

I'm curious what qualifies a plane to be on this list. I've flown quiet a few sea planes but none of them are on this list. Is this only military sea planes or is there some other criteria? Otherwise the list seems a bit random to me because it seems far from complete. Perhaps these are planes that *ONLY* are sea planes vs. those that are converted under an STC.--66.60.137.134 (talk) 02:34, 2 December 2008 (UTC)