Word: pontooned
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...fuselage rests solidly on a metal pontoon, and with the landing gear drawn up, the craft is a seaplane. But let the pilot press on a button, and a small electric motor, driven by a storage battery, releases landing wheels at the side of the pontoon, draws them out and downward and in eleven seconds the craft is a land plane. In the first tests the amphibian made 30 landings alternately on land and water without a hitch...
...designed primarily for training purposes. It has dual control, wings pitched upward to prevent skidding and other features which have won for it the reputation of being the safest plane that the Navy ever flew. A speed of 65 knots can be attained in it. The Aeromarine has the pontoon beneath the lower plane which distinguishes it from the flying boat in which the cockpit is in the hull, and the motor above the pilots head. In the Aeromarine the engine is in front of the pilot...
...advocates of the military camps say that they also are hopeful, but that in the meantime we must be practical, we must face the situation as we find it. Ability to build a pontoon bridge, to "shoot straight", has a suggestion of practicality which it is hard to overcome. But one clear-sighted diplomat, one President Wilson, is of more practical worth for the actual preservation of peace than all our present navies and soldiers combined. As one correspondent has said, it is the voter who must ultimately decide this question, who must understand his own interests well enough...