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In another life I'd love to be a float plane delivery guy, dropping off toilet paper and beer to people living in bum fuck nowhere, and maybe doing some lite smuggling on the side. I'd have a handle like "Buck" or "Otter" and have a big beard.

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[–] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Those little pond skippers are fun as hell, but using them to get to a camp at 3am is nightmare material at times lmao

[–] T34_69@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What why would you do that meow-knit

There's no lights on the pond???

[–] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

Shift change at 5. You don't have much option.

[–] propter_hog@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The De Havilland Otter is objectively the best seaplane.

[–] livestreamedcollapse@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Not to get too "um akshually" with your distinction between floatplane vs. seaplane, but I'd contest that the Otter is the best floatplane; PBY-2 Catalina best seaplane, don't tell me having one of those converted into a mobile home & chilling on a south pacific atoll isn't the dream

[–] propter_hog@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

I can agree with that, especially growing up watching Tail Spin

[–] ANarcoSnowPlow@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

I had a model pby-2 when I was a kid. I loved that thing so much.

[–] Owl@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

How recently did you watch Porco Rosso?

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

In another life

Ditto. And I already have the big beard.

In other news - in everyday language - are the words "floatplane" and "seaplane" used interchangeably?

Rant. I googled but google and google images just wasted my time. Gah.

[–] propter_hog@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

https://www.skytough.com/post/seaplane-vs-floatplane/

A floatplane is a seaplane, but not necessarily the other way around.

[–] came_apart_at_Kmart@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I knew a guy nicknamed "Corn" once.

if I could have any nickname I wanted, it would be something like Tater, Ox or Neckbone.

[–] propter_hog@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

Beaver, Canadian plane