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Posted By: Don Maxwell
Date Posted: May 20, 2019
Description: This is a really unfair question--although most seaplane pilots probably know of the airplane. Can you identify it?
Date Taken: 2019-05-18
Place Taken: Lake Anna, VA
Owner: Don Maxwell
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Mark MacKinnon - May 19,2019   Viewers  | Reply
    Thurston Teal?     
  
Don Maxwell - May 19,2019   Viewers  | Reply
    No, but you're sort of on the right track, more or less.     
  
Mark MacKinnon - May 19,2019   Viewers  | Reply
    Coot amphib?

The center windshield post is what's throwing me off. 		    
  
Don Maxwell - May 20,2019   Viewers  | Reply
    Nope, not a Coot. Not a bird at all. Here's another hint: This airplane made its first water landing and takeoff (in that order) in 20 or 30 years that day.     
  
Don Maxwell - May 21,2019   Viewers  | Reply
    So... you give up, eh?

It's a Volmer VJ-22 Sportsman two-place amphibious flying boat, designed by Volmer Jensen in 1957. This one was restored by a couple of guys who probably weren't born yet when Volmer began flying the first one in 1958. It attended the SPA's Lake Anna (VA) splash-in on May 18th. When it arrived it made its first water landing in about 20 years, though some said 30 years. It made its first water takeoff since whenever later in the day.

You can see it and a bunch of other seaplanes, including an Icon A5 and some Seareys, in this video: https://youtu.be/f72zjyFtoIY 		     Attachments:  

2019 Lake Anna Splash-In
2019 Lake Anna Splash-In

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John Dunlop - Jun 25,2019   Viewers  | Reply
    Great video Don!
Now don't blame the robot lady Don. She never had a chance with your smooth 10 flap landing.. 		    
  
Don Maxwell - Jun 26,2019   Viewers  | Reply
    No worries, John. That lady and I have a loving, caring relationship. (The LED indicator was at the 30 mark that time, but I should adjust the lady's sensor switch to anticipate it when there's a heavy load on the flaps.)     
  
Mark MacKinnon - May 22,2019   Viewers  | Reply
    Great video, Don. (Finally had a chance to get my laptop to a wifi where I could watch it on a decent screen). Nice to see such a large variety of non-floatplane amphibs! Seabee, Lake Amphib, Volmer, Seareys and even an Icon. We often don't do this well up here at the Greenville Seaplane fly-in....lots of floatplanes but not so much amphibs.     
  
Mark MacKinnon - May 21,2019   Viewers  | Reply
    I thought of Volmer Sportsman but every pic I could find of them had a single piece windshield without a center post. I allowed that to throw me off. Also the curved fiberglass panel threw me.
The Sportsman was the first popular homebuilt amphibian. The wood, plywood and fiberglass hull tended to be heavy if too much fiberglass was used, which tended to be a common error during building with this and the similar Anderson Kingfisher. The fiberglass layer had to be kept as thin as possible. I believe both planes could use Piper Cub or Champ wings to speed construction (if you could find them).
Volmer designed it with a pusher configuration. Some builders decided to turn the engine around and made theirs a tractor config, but Volmer didn't like that as it forced the raising of the engine higher for prop clearance. 		    


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