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    The Colonial Model C-1 Skimmer was an American small single-engined amphibian flying boat built by the Colonial Aircraft Corporation. It was the start...
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    Colonial C-2 Skimmer, itself a development of the three-seat Colonial C-1 Skimmer. The Colonial Aircraft of Sanford, Maine developed the C-2 Skimmer in...
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    Thurston, who later developed several other light seaplanes including the Colonial Skimmer, Lake Buccaneer, Thurston Teal and Seafire. Only 19 aircraft were built...
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    Consultants Twin Bee Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Colonial Skimmer Goodyear Duck Lake Aircraft Amphibian SIAI-Marchetti FN.333 Riviera...
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    later developed the design into a family of amphibians including the Colonial Skimmer and Lake Buccaneer. Data from Grumman Aircraft since 1929 General characteristics...
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  • designer noted for his work on small amphibious aircraft, including the Colonial Skimmer, Lake Buccaneer, Thurston Teal and AeroMarine Seafire. He also wrote...
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    v t e Colonial and Lake aircraft Colonial aircraft Colonial C-1 Skimmer Colonial C-2 Skimmer IV Lake aircraft LA-4 Amphibian LA-4-180 Skimmer LA-4-200...
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    Prototypes 3 Claude Dornier Sea Star Germany Amphibian 1986 Prototypes 2 Colonial Skimmer C-1 and C-2 US Flying boat 1960s Production 43 Consolidated Commodore...
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    (660 ft) on land Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Colonial Skimmer Goodyear Duck Lake Aircraft Amphibian Republic RC-3 Seabee Thurston...
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  • ME (Pres: Herbert Lindblad), 1959: Acquired by Lake Aircraft Corp.) Colonial Skimmer ((Willis C) Brown-(Richard) Young a.k.a. Columbia Aircraft Co.) Columbia...
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    v t e Colonial and Lake aircraft Colonial aircraft Colonial C-1 Skimmer Colonial C-2 Skimmer IV Lake aircraft LA-4 Amphibian LA-4-180 Skimmer LA-4-200...
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    is an important habitat for thousands of birds representing species of skimmers, stilts, terns, pelicans, egrets, herons, and ibis. Gaillard Island is...
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    greater obstacle crossing capabilities than the Susquehanna Skimmer, although the Skimmer outperformed the Aircat in deep water. The Thomas Beaver Free...
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    they are to all sorts of migrating birds that stream by. Birds like black skimmers, clapper rails, and American oystercatchers may be found in every season...
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  • In 1955, Colonial Aircraft began production of the Skimmer amphibian in Sanford, Maine. Later in 1959, the type certificate for the Skimmer was sold to...
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    24, 2012. James Fenimore Cooper (May 1, 2004). The Water-Witch; or, The Skimmer of the Seas. Project Gutenberg. Retrieved December 24, 2012. James Fenimore...
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    an image of him as an adult in a suit with a skimmer hat was widely circulated during the American colonial regime. They first appeared in the 1914 book...
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    structure called the Oconee skimmer wall was built; it separates the plant's inlet canal from the lake itself. The effect of the skimmer is to fetch cool lake...
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    Laridae in the suborder Lari. They are most closely related to the terns and skimmers and distantly related to auks, and even more distantly to waders. Until...
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    "Alaska" (Russian: Аля́ска, romanized: Aljáska) was introduced in the Russian colonial period when it was used to refer to the Alaska Peninsula. It was derived...
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    Laridae is a family of medium to large seabirds, the gulls, terns, and skimmers. Gulls are typically grey or white, often with black markings on the head...
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  • Laridae is a family of medium to large seabirds, the gulls, terns, and skimmers. Gulls are typically grey or white, often with black markings on the head...
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  • Laridae is a family of medium to large seabirds, the gulls, terns, and skimmers. Gulls are typically grey or white, often with black markings on the head...
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    bodies on the sand in the place they have chosen to site their nest, while skimmers build their scrapes with their feet, kicking sand backwards while resting...
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    David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (August 2022). "Noddies, gulls, terns, skimmers, skuas, auks". IOC World Bird List Version 12.2. International Ornithologists'...
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    the family Laridae, which also includes several genera of gulls and the skimmers (Rynchops). They are slender, lightly built birds with long, forked tails...
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    lucubrationes' (twenty years of reflection) of Lord Coke; they are mere skimmers of the law, and know little else." St. George Tucker, his one-time student...
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    little stint, the wood sandpiper, and the common sandpiper. The African skimmer (Rhyncops flavirostris) nests in the banks of Central Island. The white-breasted...
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    important wintering sites for the spoon-billed sandpiper and the Indian skimmer. Some species such as hog deer (Axis porcinus), water buffalos (Bubalus...
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    darters, and some of the Charadriiformes (the gulls, skuas, terns, auks and skimmers) are classified as seabirds. The phalaropes are usually included as well...
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