samsonshydroplane

The New "Warship" - Commander Samson's hydroplane (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

• Richard Norton said:

  This would be Air Commodore Charles Rumney Samson CMG, DSO & Bar, AFC (8 July 1883 – 5 February 1931) the British naval aviation pioneer. You can read more about him here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Rumney_Samson

• Terrific Lake said:

  best shot

• Kees Kort said:

  This beauty of a photograph (together with the one before) shows the very early Short S.41 Tractor Biplane which was completed in March 1912 as a landplane. It was later converted as a seaplane, with two central floats and three streamlined air-bags (!). Commander Samson used the machine in the Naval Review in 1912. Source: C.H. Barnes. Shorts aircraft since 1900, page 80. Cheers Kees

• Kristi (LOC P&P) said:

  Richard Arthur Norton and Varese2002: Thank you! When we update the source record, we will add the expanded descriptive information.

• Art Siegel said:

  looks like the same model as"