A fictional depiction of what a successor to a military utility floatplane like the WWII Vought Kingfisher might look like in the early 1950's.

Powered by two Blasto-50 turbojets, this craft can dart around at 450 mph. Thanks to its novel system of extendable flaps, it can cruise leisurely at 150 mph with only 20% power.

This is a fully tricked-out airplane with lots.of features like:
=> Fully functional front cockpit with sliding canopy
=> Rear cockpit/observer seat with sliding canopy. Currently the cockpit soeydo much but it has lots of sliders, buttons and fancy lights to play with.
=> Combined air brakes / extending flaps with sliding-out engine spray guards.
=> Foldable wings.
=> Beaching mode with powered retractable landing gear for driving onto the beach on own power.

One feature I deliberately did not include are guns and bombs. If anything, I can't imagine even a military plane like this to cary anything but sonar buoys or life rafts. You are free however to load up the plane with all cannons, rockets or torpedoes you like.

Commands:
=> VTOL down: lower flaps, extend engine spray guards.
=> VTOL up: Air brakes/ float brakes
=> Activate 1: Front canopy open/close
=> Activate 2: Rear canopy open/close
=> Activate 3: Fold wings
=> Activate 4: Beaching mode, slide back float wheel covers
~> Activate 4+ Trim: deploy/raise beaching wheels
~> Activate 4+ beaching wheels down: drive mode. Pitch (right controls up/down) to drive forward/backward. Yaw (left controls left/right) to steer.

Flying:
Take off: Flaps 1/2 down, full throttle, unstick at 150.mph, immediately retract flaps and climb to desired height. (At full throttle, aircraft will climb at 45° angle)
Slow Cruise: Lower throttle to 25%, lower flaps completely, use trim to keep plane level, raise or lower throttle to climb or descent. Switch view to pilot or observer to look around.
Landing: use air brakes (sparingly) to descent to about 150 ft, lower flaps completely and kill throttle. Keep craft level until it hits the water. Push VTOL forward all the way to deploy air- and float brakes to bleed off speed. Use yaw to steer on water.

Beaching: cruise on water until you find a suitable beach with shallow banks. Hit beach head on, activate 4 to enter beaching mode, slide trim down to lower wheels, trottle up to push aircraft onto beach. Once on beach kill trottle and use pitch and yaw (right hand commands up/down, left hand commands left/right) to drive around. If you haven't done so already, turn plane to face the sea, stop and save location for later use.
Beach takeoff: choose beach location (saved above) to start. Activate 4 and lower wheels. Use pitch and jaw to drive to water. Drive into the water, raise wheels and de-activate 4 to close wheel hatches. Then throttle up jets to taxy and takeoff.

Important: the beaching wheels are not a landing gear. Although you can use them on occasion to take off from an airfield or aircraft carrier, they will break when trying to land on them. Landing is on water only.

Happy flying