This Grumman Albatross is now an exhibit at the Pima museum in Tucson AZ. An Albatross is a cool plane anyway so might be worthy of a post but what I really liked about this one was the joined-up thinking for using it. An amphibious plane is clearly going to be used to “land” on water a lot of the time. When on water, you would really want to have your jetskis to hand. Putting them in the hull and trying to launch them seems like a lot of hassle. Instead, why not mount them directly to the wing and lower them from there directly to the water. Far more efficient.