From the Seas to the Sky

Flying boats seem almost silly to modern eyes. After all, they’re not very good boats and they’re not very efficient airplanes. But we live in a world where we have the luxury of airstrips in nearly every corner of the globe — usually constructed in the 1940s for military use.

In the pre-World War II era, seaplanes — encompassing both float planes and flying boats — made perfect sense. After all,