20th Century Passenger Flying Boats

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Near Marseilles in 1910 Henri Fabre fitted aerodynamic floats to his Le Canard and achieved the first successful water take-off and landing; two years later Glenn Curtiss developed the ‘hydro-aeroplane’ with a hull. From those beginnings to the decline of such craft after wartime investment in paved runways, this visual account of flying boats uses private, public and corporate images and ranges across Europe, the Americas and Australasia.

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