Flying Boats
Author | : Charles Woodley |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : 2018-08-10 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780750989725 |
ISBN-13 | : 0750989726 |
Rating | : 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: 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.