Albatross Landing and Taking Off on Candlewood Lake, CT

I was boating on Candlewood Lake, October 2nd, 2013 and had stopped for lunch on a small island when this aircraft flew overhead, then made a turn for a landing approach.
Note copilot waving as he passed by about 100 feet from me. Awesome!
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[@blackredsplanemodelunboxer777]

EPIC SHOT AND AWESOME AUDIO, MATE!! Sounds like a 2 bladed radial pistonprop for sure!!

[@rumpstatefiasco]

Brilliant video! THANKS for capturing this transcendent moment for us to enjoy. I love this magical aircraft so much.

[@ZacharyE]

Fannnnntastttttic! I absolutely love flying boats!

[@wn6904k]

WOW....talk about being in the right place at the right time. Great video !!!!!!

[@77Avadon77]

Look at those wing tip vorticies in the water mist. Really cool, they look like doughnuts. :D

[@ronaldfazekas6492]

Just came across this video--I don't live far from Candlewood Lake--wish I had been there!--I was lucky enough to have flown on the smaller Grumman Goose in the Virgin Islands decades ago

[@jwb2814]

You did a nice job Thx for posting

[@olddog103]

Spent a lot of summers at candle wood as a kid. First plane I got to fly in after I joined USN, was a HU16C

[@overcastfriday81]

Painted to mimic a Boeing 314. Very cool.

[@Agislife1960]

Looks like the long wing version with aux tanks slung underneath the wings, that baby is set up to cover some distance.

[@wun1gee]

Nope, not a long-wing. You can tell because the trailing edge is fully tapered. the long-wing's inboard extensions are square and not tapered, so it interrupts the trailing edge taper. The long-wing also removes the leading edge slats at the wingtips. Lastly, the long-wing's ailerons, rudder and elevator don't go all the way to the tips of the wing/v-stab/h-stab respectively because all of those surfaces are extended past the control surfaces. So she's a short-wing.

[@afterhourshotrods6882]

I Use to see them fly over my house everyday when I was a kid. The US Coast Guard had a fleet of about 10 that operated out of Opa Locka air base when the Cuban missile crisis was happening. I knew the sound of them big Wright's R1820'$ and I run out of the house every time just to see them. They don't build Aircraft like that anymore!!!

[@Warbird-Aviation]

Fantastic

[@mothmagic1]

Beautiful

[@sardu55]

Where is Candlewood Lake? Is it in central Connecticut? Thanks. Just wondering why the plane would be in that area.

[@dododostenfiftyseven4096]

Difference between albatross goose and mallard?

[@aircraftadventures-vids]

There's actually 4 Grumman amphibians. From smallest to largest: - Widgeon, 200-270 hp - Goose, 450 hp - Mallard, 600 hp - Albatross, 1,450 hp

[@fr-tigerfangs7039]

Oh my God!! This is beautiful!! I can't help but noticing that the livery of this Albatross is a nod to the one that the B314 Yankee Clipper and the M130 used to sport back in the days. Am I right? Thanks a bunch for posting!

[@ronaldfazekas6492]

That was the "neutrality" livery when we were supposedly neutral prior to entering WWII

[@tomservo5007]

he heard about the food at Down the Hatch

[@johnnywalker2609]

Too cool

[@christopherwood2290]

I have seen helicopters land on islands on the lake.

[@حسنحسنى-ل1ط]

عوزين يشوهو صورتي قدام الانجازات بيرسمو علي تقيل عوزين ياخدو الشقه❤

[@حسنحسنى-ل1ط]

⭐🥀

[@manaboutit1594]

PLOP!

[@selmafritsch744]

Adelio não é uma você

[@duchuntr001]

This is the plane kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZmjGnJ-KgtWfmLc