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    A flying boat is a type of fixed-winged seaplane with a hull, allowing it to land on water. It differs from a floatplane in having a fuselage that is...
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    The following is a list of seaplanes, which includes floatplanes and flying boats. A seaplane is any airplane that has the capability of landing and taking...
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    The Kawanishi H8K is a flying boat used by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service during World War II for maritime patrol duties. The Allied reporting...
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    categories based on their technological characteristics: floatplanes and flying boats; the latter are generally far larger and can carry far more. Seaplanes...
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    The Kawanishi H6K was an Imperial Japanese Navy flying boat produced by the Kawanishi Aircraft Company and used during World War II for maritime patrol...
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    The AD Flying Boat was designed by the British Admiralty's Air Department to serve as a patrol aircraft that could operate in conjunction with Royal Navy...
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    was best known for its seaplanes, such as the Kawanishi H6K and H8K flying boats, its N1K-J land-based fighter -derived from their Kawanishi N1K1 floatplane...
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    1933 flying boat Nakajima E8N Dave 1934 reconnaissance seaplane Kawanishi H6K Mavis 1936 recon. flying boat; formerly - Navy Type 97 Flying Boat Mitsubishi...
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  • Hikōtei Jidai (飛行艇時代, lit. 'The Age of the Flying Boat') is a manga by Hayao Miyazaki. A fifteen-page, all-watercolor work, it was published in Model...
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  • with Short flying boats. From 1950 to 1954, Wellington was also linked by flying boat to Sydney. The long intended Wellington–Sydney flying boat service...
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  • The Short Empire was a medium-range four-engined monoplane flying boat, designed and developed by Short Brothers during the 1930s to meet the requirements...
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    Spruce Goose; registration NX37602) is a prototype strategic airlift flying boat designed and built by the Hughes Aircraft Company. Intended as a transatlantic...
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  • biplane flying boat airliner CANT 10 single-engine biplane flying boat airliner CANT 18 single-engine flying boat trainer CANT 22 trimotor flying boat airliner...
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    Retrieved 22 December 2013. "The Foynes Flying Boat Museum...Recalling Aviation History". The Foynes Flying Boat Museum. Retrieved 29 August 2010. "Foynes...
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  • Pemberton Billing's British Marine Air Navigation (part of the Supermarine flying-boat company), the Daimler Airway, under the management of George Edward Woods...
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  • Consolidated PBY-5 Catalina - Amphibian flying boat Curtiss SOC-4 Seagull - Floatplane Douglas RD-4 Dolphin - Flying boat Fairchild J2K - Liaison Grumman JF-2...
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    The Short S.25 Sunderland is a British flying boat patrol bomber, developed and constructed by Short Brothers for the Royal Air Force (RAF). The aircraft...
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  • twin-engine patrol flying boat prototype (1932) Sikorsky XSS: Naval scout flying-boat (1933) Sikorsky S-42 "Clipper": four-engine flying boat (1934–1935) Sikorsky...
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  • Ansett's operations was the flying-boat service from Rose Bay in Sydney to Lord Howe Island. This was operated by Ansett Flying Boat Services using Short Sandringham...
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  • Donnet-Denhaut flying boat 1915 patrol flying boat, about 1,085 built FBA Type H 1915 patrol flying boat, ~2000 built Grigorovich M-5 1915 patrol flying boat, about...
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  • flying boat MBR-7 - 1937 reconnaissance flying boat and light bomber Be-2 - 1936 reconnaissance floatplane Be-10 - 1956 maritime patrol flying boat Be-12...
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    from the moored flying boat. Voices carried clearly across the calm water.[citation needed] The Qantas service to Nouméa flying boat came to and end in...
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  • largest flying boat base in Australia RAAF Base Temora, Temora RAAF Base Uranquinty, Uranquinty – 1941–45 Pilot training, and 1947–52 No.1 Basic Flying Training...
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  • reliance on flying boats for long over-water routes. Operators of the Fw 200 focussed on other routes, though. In the 1930s a flying boat route was the...
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  • floatplane Grumman JRF Goose amphibian flying boat Grumman J4F Widgeon amphibian flying boat Hall PH flying boat Lockheed XR3O-1 executive transport Lockheed...
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    operationally. Savoia-Marchetti produced two twin-hulled flying boat types. The S.55 multirole flying boat first flew in 1924. It was built in large numbers...
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  • 3 – flying boat biplane (1916) Macchi M.5 – flying boat fighter (1917) Macchi M.6 – flying boat fighter prototype (1917) Macchi M.7 – flying boat fighter...
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    floats mounted under the fuselage to provide buoyancy. By contrast, a flying boat uses its fuselage for buoyancy. Either type of seaplane may also have...
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    helicopters do exist as well. Fixed-wing amphibious aircraft are seaplanes (flying boats and floatplanes) which are equipped with retractable wheels, at the expense...
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    more commonly known as the PBY Catalina (US Navy designation), is a flying boat and amphibious aircraft designed by Consolidated Aircraft in the 1930s...
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