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Husky on Floats

Renton may be home to the 737 and to plenty of other aircraft but it also has a floatplane dock at the north end.  A Husky was dragged over to the ramp during my Sunday morning stroll and dropped into the water.  The pilot powered up and proceeded to water taxi around for quite a while, presumably while the engine was coming up to temperature.  Finally he was ready to go and given acknowledgement from the tower that he could go if he wanted.  A surge of power, up on to the step and then airborne and climbing away.  No two ways about it, flying floatplanes is definitely cool.