HIGH HULLS FLYING BOATS OF THE 1930S ANS 1940S . FTH024

For a time, the flying boat was seen as the way of the future. These aircraft, sometimes strange and foreign to the modern mind, once criss-crossed the world and fulfilled essential roles.

In High Hulls: Flying Boats of the 1930s and 1940s, Charles Bain looks at the golden age of the flying boat, when these sometimes strange and often beautiful aircraft spanned the globe.

These vessels – a combination of ship and airplane – found themselves working as patrol and passenger aircraft, transports and even in combat roles.

This essential book contains their stories with the complete histories of 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 a strange jet fighter that landed like a duck. It even includes the flying boats that keep on flying today.

Each of these aircraft has a story worthy of telling and often a memorable role to play in the history of aviation.