Flying Boats: Air Travel in the Golden Age

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.

• | Author: Charles Woodley
• | Publisher: The History Press Ltd
• | Publication Date: Aug 01, 2018
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780750970143
• | ISBN-10: 0750970146