— stars in a free-form journey from woodland to dreamland, traveling at one point in a flying boat.
Last year it was a flying boat, this year we're hoping for a gigantic George Osborne made of Mumford & Sons CDs.
He wrote a number of books about his activities, including My Flight to the Cape and Back (1926) and Twenty Thousand Miles in a Flying Boat (1930).
Also featuring: red squirrels in a mock combat zone, a misty morning photography mishap, a flying boat base and the joys of "a squeeze" in a cave.
The story revolves around two children in a flying boat, which gets them into difficult situations where they confront problems like bullying and pollution.
This was my second trip aboard Albatross One, a flying boat bought in 2008 by Row 44, a satellite technology company that is developing what it describes as the next generation of in-flight, multimedia Wi-Fi service.
Nearby, a stone bust of Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia stands much larger than life, like its subject, and a model of a flying boat hangs from the domed ceiling.
So not only was he on one occasion "plucked off the Irrawaddy by a flying boat, like James Bond", he even managed to be an Orwell-style anti-imperialist and to further the cause of "Burma for the Burmese".
Stretching around the full circle of the Marine Air Terminal's rotunda, James Brooks's mural "Flight," a W.P.A. art project, depicts the history of aviation, with interconnected scenes of vision and progress, from Icarus to Leonardo, flying machines to modern technology, including a flying boat.
The tale has to do with Foynes, a quiet little town west of Limerick, and a group of cold, miserable, no doubt disgruntled passengers who filed off a flying boat here late one night in 1942 onto a jetty that stuck out into the sheltered estuary of the River Shannon.
