USS Balsawood
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In 1950, the Navy contracted a Delaware firm to conduct flight tests and sea trials of an SNJ and a Piper PA-11 equipped with water skis (later called hydroskis). The purpose was to make it possible to take off from and land on a 120-foot-long raft made of balsa (dubbed the U.S.S. Balsawood). Although not necessarily practical, the tests were successful.
Below taken in the Chesapeake Bay the aircraft were from "All American Airways" ??
