Short Shetland – A Pioneering Flying Boat
The Short Shetland Flying Boat was developed as a flying boat during the Second World War to meet a specification
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Short Sunderland – The Flying Porcupine
The start of the Second World War was not exactly a surprise to the British Government, but still found them
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Blohm & Voss BV 238 – The Flying Boat Beast
Considered the heaviest plane ever flown at the time, the Blohm & Voss BV 238 was a gigantic experimental transport
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Dornier Do X – Bigger Isn’t Always Better…
If you wanted to travel across the Atlantic in the 1920s, your choices were rather limited which inspired the creation
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Savoia-Marchetti S.55 – The Unlikely Endurance Athlete
During the interwar period Italian manufacturer Savoia-Marchetti was inspired to create a new aircraft that could act as a torpedo
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Martin JRM Mars – The World’s Best Firefighter
It was August 1938 when the US Navy first commissioned Glenn L. Martin Aircraft Company to build for them a
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SR.45 Princess – The Largest Metal Flying Boat Ever Built
A product of the optimism of post-World War Two Britain, the Saunders-Roe Princess, the largest metal flying boat ever created,
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Blohm & Voss BV 222 Wiking – The German Sky Ship
The Blohm and Voss BV 222 Wiking was an enormous six-engine seaplane developed by the Germans just after the start
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