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Passenger Seaplanes and Their Bases

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

R. A. Bell
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The history of the seaplane is almost as old as flying itself, dating back to man-carrying Box Kites only two years after the Wright brothers memorable flight at Kittyhawk.

The First World War greatly increased the pace of development, which continued to its peak just before the Second World War, when the flying boat became a mainspring in the opening of routes to the Empire. During the Second World War seaplanes played a major part in the Allied war“* effort but decline was already evident, and increased during the early post-war years.

The relative numbers of landplanes and seaplanes used by one principal carrier are shown on Fig. 1, which indicates the rise and fall of the popularity of the seaplane passenger aircraft relative to other aircraft. This paper attempts to analyse the seaplane's virtues and drawbacks, reviews its past and attempts to anticipate its future. The problems and characteristics of the seaplane base are also examined together with some past solutions.

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The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 74 , Issue 717 , September 1970 , pp. 703 - 717
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1970 

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