Design of seaplane hull

[bystrik]

Hi everybody!
Does anyone have any information how to design common seaplane hull!


Regards
Marek

 

[DORD2002]

The old NACA archives are loaded with information about Hull design. The old Technical Reports and Technical Notes can provide some good information. The archive can be found at

http://naca.larc.nasa.gov/

Good Luck!

 

[bystrik]

Thanks.

 

[dan100]

See FAR25 for loads.
dan100

 

[jcai]

HI BUD - CORRECTION - A SEAPLANE OR FLOATPLANE - DOES NOT HAVE A HULL - IT HAS A FUSELAGE - A SEAPLANE IS SUPPORTED OUT OF THE WATER ON FLOATS - LIKE A DHC BEAVER - THE FUSELAGE DOES NOT TOUCH THE WATER - A FLYING BOAT - WHETHER AMPHIBIOUS OR NOT - HAS ITS HULL RESTING IN THE WATER - THEREFORE NEEDS A MARINE TYPE HULL - THATS WHY ITS CALLED A FLYING BOAT . SEE BOEING B.314 , SHORT SUNDERLAND , PBY CATALINA , SIKORSKY S-42 , MARTIN MARS - AND IN MODERN ONES JAP SHIN MEIWA .
ANYTHING I CAN HELP WITH PLS ASK - I LOVE FLYING BOATS -IF THATS WHAT TYPE YOU MEAN - J.C.

 

[Miper]

bystrik,
The following references should get you started. By the way, you will note in these references (which include the FAA, seaplane developers in the USA and UK, and numerous researchers) that they all associate the words “seaplane” and “hull” without any sense of embarrassment and hardly any upper-case text.

http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0018149.html

http://www.peachtree-city.com/HENDON_MUSEUM/SeaplaneHull.html

http://www.centaurseaplane.com/docs/design.htm

http://www.sae.org/aeromag/techupdate/05-2002/

Ernest G. Stout, "Development of High-Speed Water-Based Aircraft," Journal of the Aeronautical Sciences, Vol. 17, No. 8, Aug., 1950, pp. 457-480. Very good survey of the modern development of the seaplane concepts by the head of the Consolidated seaplane hull development work.
Shizuo Kikuhara, "A Study of Spray Generated by Seaplane Hulls," Journal of the Aeronautical Sciences, June 1960, pp. 415-428.
Ingo Dathe and Manrico de Leo, "Hydrodynamic Characteristics of Seaplanes as affected by hull parameters," AIAA paper 89-1540, 1989.
Federal Aviation Regulations, PART 23.521 through 23.537 and 25.521 though 25.537
For example PART 23.527 ==>

http://www.risingup.com/fars/info/part23-527-FAR.shtml

http://www.precisiondesigninc.com/competit.htm

http://www.oriontechnologies.net/Documents/Hull.pdf

http://aeroweb.lucia.it/en/history/pegna1.htm