Green Energy Enterprises Inc. (GYOG)

[Porgie Tirebiter]

“folds the floats up into the streamliner pannier below the fuselage during flight”

The type of airplane this system is suited for would be a high winged aircraft with fuselage mounted landing gear. Perhaps a single engine airplane with a low wing could use the system if it had fuselage mounted gear. But there would still be clearance problems with the wings and propellor, unless the floats held the airplane very high off the surface of the water.

The King Air has a low wing, with the landing gear mounted in the nacelles aft of the engines. This system that tigerfish has is incompatible with such a configuration.

Look at the web page: http://tigerfishaviation.net/page3.html

You can scroll down, they show no airplane configured like a King Air is. LOL, I see a Citation 500/501 there. No way they would be able to certify that due to the possibility of water ingestion. This won't work with jets mounted aft on the fuselage.

I'm not saying they got a bum system, I find the concept interesting. It's just that what they have won't work on a King Air, and the engineers will tell you that. It's the hypesters who might say otherwise.