Re: "What If Models Was:Martin P5M Marlin

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>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Maiesm72) wrote:
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>> One of the big British flying boats, Singapore maybe, was converted to a
>> houseboat.
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>> A Walrus was also converted to a house trailer, IIRC.
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>> Then there all of the airliner restaurants.
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>> Tom
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>One of the Dutch East Indies Do 24s that escaped to Australia eventually 
>ended up as a houseboat on the Darling River. "The Legacy of the DC-3" 
>by Henry Holden (Niceville, FL:Wind Canyon Publishing, 1996) shows 
>pictures of a DC-3 motorhome (pp.289-90) in New South Wales, Australia. 
>And wasn't one of the Boeing 307s converted into a houseboat somewhere 
>in Florida? No doubt that's where those chuckleheads in Washington got 
>the idea of trying to land the 307 in Puget Sound ;-}
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>Mark Schynert

what are the aircraft that are converted to fast, long 
distance boats on the amazon? saw some on lonely planet and 
wouldn't that make a diorama?