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Flying-Boats

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

Henry Knowler
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This Account of Flying-Boats will deal mainly with British craft, and must necessarily have a personal approach from one who has been involved in flyingboat development over nearly the whole of its life history.

The prehistoric giant amphibians suffered eclipse through changing environment; similarly changed conditions in Aviation caused the still-evolving flying-boat to come to the end of its economic life. Probably concrete runways were the basic reason for the disappearance of flying-boats for both civil and military use, since landplanes were then no longer restricted either in size of efficiency or aerodrome conditions.

Type
A Century of British Aeronautics
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 70 , Issue 661 , January 1966 , pp. 134 - 137
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1966

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