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Percival Spencer’s 1941 Air Car design formed the template for two generations of amphibious lightplanes. For ordinary Americans living through the Great Depression, the notion of privately owning a seaplane—even a small one used for sport—was pretty extreme. Attempts to introduce such aircraft to the civil market during the 1930s had met either with very …
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