Flying boats opened up travel destinations around the world—then they went to war Dave Kindy A Sikorsky S-43 banks near Galveston, Texas, in 1993. Nicknamed the “baby clipper,” it was a smaller ...

"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 ...

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 ...

Explore the rise and fall of flying boats, from their luxurious dominance in the 1930s to their decline in the jet age. Once symbols of elegance and long-range travel, aircraft like Saunders-Roe’s ...

An Aspen filmmaker is taking to air, sea and land for a new documentary on a little-known piece of aviation history. Dirk Braun, best known locally for his commercial film work with his Red Mountain ...

"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 ...

In the 1930s passengers travelling to and from Bermuda on Pan Am’s legendary “flying boats” were served gourmet meals on china, there was spacious seating, and lounges and sleeping berths to make the ...

In the first of three programs, David Lomax tells of the early days when Britain's first flying boat landed on the Solent in 1913; of First World War patrols in the North Sea; and of RAF long-distance ...