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Definition: Flying Boat |
Flying BoatNoun1. A large seaplane that floats on the full rather than on pontoons. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Transportation | A seaplane in which the means of ensuring buoyancy and alighting on water is a hull. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A flying boat is an aircraft with a hull-shaped fuselage designed to take off and land on water. The flying boat NC-4 was the first airplane to fly across the Atlantic Ocean in 1919. In the 1920s and 1930s, flying boats made it possible to have regular air transport between the US and Europe, opened up new air travel routes to South America, Africa, and Asia. Where land-based aircraft lacked the range to travel great distances and required airfields to land, flying boats could stop at small island or coastal stations to refuel and resupply. The PanAm Clipper planes brought exotic destinations like the Far East in reach of air travelers and came to represent the romance of flight.The military value of flying boats was quickly recognized, and they were utilized by various nations in tasks from anti-submarine patrol to maritime search and rescue. Aircraft such as the PBY Catalina recovered downed airmen and operated as scout aircraft over the vast distances of the Pacific Theater during World War II.
Several factors contributed to the decline of flying boats. As the speed and range of land-based aircraft increased, the need for flying boats diminished. Their design compromised aerodynamic efficiency and speed to accomplish the feat of waterborne takeoff and landing. Competing with new civilian jet aircraft like the Boeing 707 was impossible. Helicopters overtook the flying boats in their air rescue roll. The land-based P-3 Orion and carrier-based S-3 Viking became the US Navy's fixed-wing anti-submarine patrol aircraft.
The pinnacle of flying boat design was surely the Hughes H-4 Hercules, known as the "Spruce Goose." The largest plane ever to fly, the Spruce Goose flew only once. The age of the flying boats was largely at an end, and the massive plane was seen as a dinosaur from a bygone era.
True flying boats have largely been replaced by seaplanes and amphibian aircraft.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Flying boat."
Crosswords: Flying Boat |
| Specialty definitions using "flying boat": aircraft body ♦ fuselage assembly. (references) |
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 | Flying Boat Construction. Credit: NASA. |  | Coast Guard PBY flying boat used for nine-lens camera photography. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | A flying boat cruising by Battery Park at the south end of Manhattan Island. In: "Flug Und Wolken", Manfred Curry, Verlag F. Bruckmann, Munchen, 1932. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | View on the ship's afterdeck, while she was carrying the Navy's first combat air group to Vera Cruz, Mexico, in April 1914. Planes visible include a Curtiss "AB" type flying boat (on deck at left), and a Curtiss "AH" type floatplane (atop the after 12"/45 gun turret). Note boom rigged to the battleship's superstructure, at left, for hoisting the planes on and off the ship. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Halftone photo spread from Our Navy at War by Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the Navy during World War I. It features a portrait photograph of Lieutenant David S. Ingalls, the U.S. Navy's first aerial "ace" (right), and a view of Lieutenant George H. Ludlow seated in an Italian-built Macchi M.5 flying boat (left). Inset is a photograph of Ensign Charles H. Hammann, who was awarded the Medal of Honor for rescuing Ludlow on 21 August 1918. Credit: NAVY. |  | Howard Hughes, seated in cockpit of wooden flying boat, turned right, facing front. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
flying boat | 107 |
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| Language | Translations for "flying boat"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | hidroplan me trup si varkë. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | хидроплан с корпус-лодка. (various references) | |
Czech | hydroplán (hydroplane, seaplane, water plane). (various references) | |
Danish | flyvebaad. (various references) | |
Dutch | vliegboot. (various references) | |
Finnish | lentovene. (various references) | |
French | hydravion coque. (various references) | |
German | Flugboot. (various references) | |
Greek | ιπτάμενο σκάφος, υδροπλάνο (hydroplane, seaplane), αεράκατος. (various references) | |
Hungarian | vízi repülõgép (hydroplane, seaplane), repülõcsónak. (various references) | |
Italian | idrovolante a scafo. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 飛行艇 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ひ"うてい. (various references) | |
Manx | etlan marrey. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | yingflay oatbay.(various references) | |
Romanian | hidroavion (hydroplane, sea-plane). (various references) | |
Russian | летающая лодка. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | hidroavion (floatplane, hydroaeroplane, hydroplane, seaplane). (various references) | |
Spanish | hidroavión de canoa. (various references) | |
Swedish | flygbåt (hydrofoil). (various references) | |
Turkish | deniz uçağı (floatplane, hydro, hydroplane, seaplane, watercraft). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-f-g-i-l-n-o-t-y" | |
-2 letters: antilogy, bloating, floating, tangibly. | |
-3 letters: antilog, biltong, boating, bolting, fabling, faintly, fatling, flaying, flyboat, flyting, foaling, ignobly, loafing, lofting, notably, tabling. | |
-4 letters: abying, albino, aliyot, bagnio, baling, bating, baying, bonita, botany, botfly, fating, faying, flagon, flinty, floaty, flying, fontal, gabion, gainly, galiot, gitano, globin, goblin, latigo, latino, laying, litany, notify, obtain, otalgy, talion. | |
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