Flying Boats: Air Travel in the Golden Age sets out to do justice to a time of glamorous, unhurried air travel, unrecognisable to most of today's air travellers, but sorely missed by some. During the 1930s, long-distance air travel was the preserve of the flying boat, which transported well-heeled passengers in ocean-liner style and comfort across the oceans. But then the Second World War came, and things changed. Suddenly, landplanes were more efficient, and in abundance: long concrete runways had been constructed during the war that could be used by a new generation of large transport aircraft; and endless developments in aircraft meant they could fly faster and for further distances. Commercial flying boat services resumed, but their days would be numbered.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Author’s Note
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Imperial Airways and the Empire Air Mail Scheme
- 2 Pan American Across the Pacific
- 3 Transatlantic Beginnings
- 4 Wartime Interlude
- 5 Return to Peacetime Operations
- 6 The Princess Flying Boat
- 7 Aquila Airways
- 8 Australia and the South Pacific
- 9 South American Operations
- 10 Norwegian Coastal Services
- 11 Preserved Flying Boats
- Appendix 1 Foynes Flying Boat Movements During September 1943
- Appendix 2 Fleet Lists of Major Flying Boat Operators
- Sources of Reference
- Picture Section
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