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SPEED WEEK - Spontoon Island 1938. (A Work in Progress.)
The "Witches Cauldron" racing floatplane is approximately based on the racing land-plane (circa 1936) that performed so well in the USA Greve & Thompson air races. That French airplane was the Caudron C-460 designed by Delmotte and flown by Michel Detroyat. The pilot is conferring with Speed Week racing officials. The small boat passing by carries 2 photographers/reporters for a local journal that follows the regional airplane traffic, aircraft statistics, flight personalities, and all the gossip the little magazine can fit in. They will cruise the Spontoon Lagoon looking for stories and photo opportunities. The photographers consider it 'co-operative' to resell copies of photos to interested magazines and newspapers interested in the Speed Week racing events.
(Speed Week racing at the Spontoon Island website:) http://spontoon.rootoon.com/SPwRacCn.html
("The Island Birdwatcher" journal at the Spontoon Island website:) http://spontoon.rootoon.com/SPwIsBW1.html
The "Witches Cauldron" racing floatplane is approximately based on the racing land-plane (circa 1936) that performed so well in the USA Greve & Thompson air races. That French airplane was the Caudron C-460 designed by Delmotte and flown by Michel Detroyat. The pilot is conferring with Speed Week racing officials. The small boat passing by carries 2 photographers/reporters for a local journal that follows the regional airplane traffic, aircraft statistics, flight personalities, and all the gossip the little magazine can fit in. They will cruise the Spontoon Lagoon looking for stories and photo opportunities. The photographers consider it 'co-operative' to resell copies of photos to interested magazines and newspapers interested in the Speed Week racing events.
(Speed Week racing at the Spontoon Island website:) http://spontoon.rootoon.com/SPwRacCn.html
("The Island Birdwatcher" journal at the Spontoon Island website:) http://spontoon.rootoon.com/SPwIsBW1.html
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I had been thinking that they probably owned at least 3 small boats, to move around the Lagoon to the seaplane marinas and to go over to the landing strip on Eastern Island. But you know, that would fit that they would rent (or lease) small boats from a boat rental co-op (or even a private operator). There would likely be no objection from the co-op staff to add the "Island Birdwatcher" logo to the side of the boat during the leasing time. (A month before, and a week after, Speed Week?) They might have visiting photographers, reporteres, & industrial spies that might join their journal staff around the Speed Week. Thanks.
So, Skookum Tamolitch? Skookum might be what they're skimming off the water...
It's an ironic name, and maybe affectionate, for their powerful tub. There is probably plenty of skookum piah chuck floating around the aviation refueling areas. Those sticks with the cloth or sponges at the end are more for fending-off the hard wood canoe from the racing seaplane's floats and wings. The mechanics and pilots get very annoyed at dents or scrapes in the hardware. It's a trade-off, for you are right, the fender poles' padding is going to pick up any oily slime floating on the water, and transfer the volatiles to the floatplane's paint-job. The mechanics and pilots wouldn't like the smeared paint either.
Although, the high-performance engines were supposed to be huge oil-burners. Mention is made of the engines (also non-muffled) obviously trailing plumes of burned oil from the exhausts. One famous floatplane racer (at a Schneider Cup race in Venice, Italy) appeared with its official fuselage color turned to "black"... from burning oil smoke during pre-race tuning and testing. Maybe the mechanics and pilots accepted the changes more than the publicity staff.
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