ANY flying boat you come across nowadays is likely to be in a museum, yet these amphibious aircraft, which use their fuselage to provide buoyancy, once had a golden age. In the 1930s they were luxurious civil airliners, lake- and sea-hopping through the British empire with well-heeled tourists on board. In the 1940s, during the second world war, they took on a military role, ferrying large numbers of troops over long distances, hunting and destroying submarines, and rescuing pilots who had ditch...
ANY flying boat you come across nowadays is likely to be in a museum, yet these amphibious aircraft, which use their fuselage to provide buoyancy, once had a golden age. In the 1930s they were luxurious civil airliners, lake- and sea-hopping through the British empire with well-heeled tourists on board. In the 1940s, during the second world war, they took on a military role, ferrying large numbers of troops over long distances, hunting and destroying submarines, and rescuing pilots who had ditch...
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