NOUN
- a large seaplane that floats with its fuselage in the water rather than on pontoons
How To Use flying boat In A Sentence
- By 1937 she's air-racing, in a four-engined flying boat. Making Light: Maybe next year
- The pilot was a youngster of 21 in a Catalina, which is an American built flying boat. The Coastal Command and Its Work with the Royal Navy
- The craft is a biplane flying boat that is thought to have been designed and built immediately after the Great War.
- Flying boats lost their advantage over land planes when runways appeared. Times, Sunday Times
- As a volunteer for the Royal Air Force, he developed improved mountain rescue methods and in Northern Ireland researched prepacked rations for the flying boats, negating the need for vegetable sacks and a Primus stove on board.
- The craft is a biplane flying boat that is thought to have been designed and built immediately after the Great War.
- The Short Empire flying boats were extremely successful aircraft that helped extend the airways to all corners of the British empire.
- With its great lakes and long coast line, the continent was, it seemed, ideally suited to the flying boat.
- Even the successful flying boats proved, in the end, uneconomical.
- The flying boats carried some thirty people in an unpressurised cabin.