Blummer draws itsy-bitsy airplanes (notably the PBY Catalina)!
Actually thats a very poor rendition of the PBY.
The large fixed outrigger floats are more like those of a British Sunderland.
The folding outriggers of the PBY were actually double duty , serving as wing tip extensions while in flight. This was an unusual if not unique feature of the PBY. Being part of the wing the floats were necessarily no longer than the wing was wide.
The very wide bottom of the Catalina made it so stable in the water that it didn't need larger outriggers.
A side note. Much of the PBY's success in bombing Japanese vessels was due to its secret stealth feature. Light bulbs were fitted to the leading edges of the wings and photo sensors fitted to the rear of the aircraft. When coming in at near wave top altitude out of the sunrise or sunset the sensors controled the brightness of the bulbs so the exact amount of light was projected as the ambient light behind it. Thus no silhouette only a line of light indistinguishable from the background.
Not entirely invisible this did fool the eyes of lookouts and gunners on the enemy ships till it was too late.
The code name for the device was either "Glimmer" or "Glamour", either name would have been well suited to this near magical cloaking device. "Magical" in the sense of a stage magician's bag of tricks. In fact the best stage magicians were recruited by the allies to develop such tricks to fool the enemy.
