Luxury seaplanes, also known as flying boats, were a popular mode of travel in the 1930s. They offered all the accouterments of sailing on a beautifully appointed ocean liner, like private sleeping ...

By the end of the Great War, the flying boat was now a proven concept, and the years after the war would see the development of flying boats that could fly further, faster, and higher than the ...

Click to open image viewer. In 1911, Glenn Curtiss was awarded the prestigious Collier Trophy for the development of the hydroaeroplane, a land airplane mounted on floats. In 1913, Curtiss developed ...