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Seaplane partially submerged in Orchard Lake; no injuries reported, deputies say • Nov. 2, 2026, 2:25 PM ET (CBS)

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U.S. Navy P5M-2 seaplane

The U.S. Navy team at the seaplane races for the Schneider Trophy, August 1926.

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Glenn Hammond Curtiss.

Glenn Hammond Curtiss

American engineer

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Jerome C. Hunsaker

American aeronautical engineer

Dornier, Claudius

Claudius Dornier

German engineer

NASA's Reduced Gravity Program provides the unique weightless or zero-G environment of space flight for testing and training of human and hardware reactions. NASA used the turbojet KC-135A to run these parabolic flights from 1963 to 2004.

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