Sentence examples for flying boat from inspiring English sources
noun
A fixed-winged seaplane with a hull, capable of landing on water, but not on land.
A coal-fired flying boat?
They came by "flying boat" from Egypt.
The 1930s and '40s were also the era of the "flying boat," or Clipper (see seaplane).
In June, it unveiled a one-person flying boat called the Flyer.
It said the missile -- which it called a "super-modern flying boat" -- was undetectable by radar.
Although its F-1 flying boat was well designed, sales were poor, and in 1921 the company was liquidated.
— stars in a free-form journey from woodland to dreamland, traveling at one point in a flying boat.
The plane, a Curtiss flying boat, was manufactured in 1917 at a Philadelphia naval plant and meant for training pilots.
From 1942 he worked on the design of an eight-engine wooden flying boat intended to carry 750 passengers.
In 1919, a Navy NC-4 flying boat took the first trans-Atlantic passenger flight, from Rockaway to England.
