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 latest book for Fonthill, Charles Bain looks at the golden age
of the flying boat, when these sometimes strange and often
beautiful vessels spanned the globe. These vessels-a combination of
ship and airplane-found themselves working as patrol aircraft,
passenger aircraft, transports, and even as combat aircraft. This
volume contains their stories, from memorable aircraft such as the
Short Sunderland and Boeing 314 Clipper, to the craft that roamed
the Pacific Theatre of the Second World War, to forgotten giants
from Saunders-Roe and even strange jet fighters that once landed
like ducks. It even includes the flying boat that has not let time
get in the way of doing its job-the Martin Mars. Each of these
aircraft has a story worthy of the telling, and often a memorable
role to play in the history of aviation. `High Hulls' delves deeply
into a long-vanished part of aviation's golden age.
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