"For a time, the flying boat was seen as the way of the future. These aircraft, so strange and foreign to the modern mind, once criss-crossed the world and fulfilled essential military roles. In his ...

In 2013, back when Vintage Aviation News was still Warbirds News, we published a short article about the efforts to restore a Donnet-Lévêque Type A, a rare French pre-WWI flying boat for the Swedish ...

Pan Am's 1937 promotional film Flying the Lindbergh Trail traces Charles Lindbergh's earliest flights across the Caribbean and South America, promoting the airline's new commercial flights on their ...

Luxury seaplanes, also known as flying boats, were a popular mode of travel in the 1930s. They offered all the accouterments of sailing on a beautifully appointed ocean liner, like private sleeping ...

"From the early 1930s until the end of that decade long-distance air travel was the preserve of the flying-boat, which transported well-heeled passengers in ocean-liner style and comfort across the ...