Flying Boats: Air Travel in the Golden Age

By Charles Woodley

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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: The History Press
• Release date: Aug 10, 2018
• ISBN: 9780750989725

Charles Woodley

Charles Woodley is an expert in civil aviation. His first book, 'Golden Age'-Commercial Aviation in Britain 1945-1965' was published by Airlife in 1992. Last summer his book on the Bristol Britannia was published by Crowood, and his latest book, on BOAC, was publised in July/August 2004 by Tempus.