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Swedish Flying Fish: The Flygvapenmuseum's Donnet-Lévêque

In 2013, back when Vintage Aviation News was still Warbirds News, we published a short article about the efforts to restore a Donnet-Lévêque Type A, a rare French pre-WWI flying boat for the Swedish ...
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Flying Boats Were Once the Luxury Liners of the Air

Flying boats opened up travel destinations around the world—then they went to war Dave Kindy A Sikorsky S-43 banks near Galveston, Texas, in 1993. Nicknamed the “baby clipper,” it was a smaller ...
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Curtiss Model E Flying Boat (hull only)

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Hull of a Curtiss Model E Flying Boat. Full-size aircraft was a single-engine, two-seat, biplane with a pusher engine ...
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Today in Aviation History: First flight of the Short Sunderland Flying Boat

On October 16, 1937 the Short Sunderland, a remarkable British flying boat, sailed through the water and the sky, leaving innovative trails behind. Developed for the Royal Air Force (RAF) in the late ...