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Since the S-51, the pontoon design was radically changed and the pontoons used on the 54, in no sense similar to the originals on the F4, proved easy to handle and are now the Navy standard...
...visibility. Snow so loaded the plane that the speed was cut to 60 m.p.h. Unable to climb above the storm, Pilot Hutchinson dropped to 50 ft. With windshields caked with snow, he dodged icebergs and cliffs until forced to make a practically blind landing. Drift ice punctured a pontoon. Radioman Gerald Altfilisch sent out SOS calls and their position, soon received a reply from Angmagsalik that the Scotch trawler Lord Talbot would rescue them within two hours. Breaking waves quickly put the set out of commission. Pilot Hutchinson taxied the crippled ship to shore where the family and crew salvaged...
...make room for the scientists, their bulky equipment and stores, the Graf's normal crew was reduced from 41 to 30 and the cabin radically remodeled. The ship's outward appearance, too, was altered by the addition of a large rubber pontoon bottom to the gondola, for sealanding...
Taking off from the Harlem River in his seaplane Ethiopia I, the Black Eagle attempted a flight to Ethiopia in 1924, landed on the mud flats of Flushing Bay, explained: "Pontoon trouble...
...from the British Cruiser Danae helped Dominican soldiers clear the streets, police the city. Sailors from the U. S. S. Grebe and a Cuban gunboat landed food, built a temporary wooden aqueduct to bring pure water into town. A score of Dutch sailors from Curaçoa threw a pontoon bridge across the Ozama River...