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Why giant flying boats disappeared

The Saunders Roe Queen was a proposed flying ocean liner designed to carry hundreds of passengers in luxury across the globe.
Explore the rise and fall of flying boats, from their luxurious dominance in the 1930s to their decline in the jet age. Once symbols of elegance and long-range travel, aircraft like Saunders-Roe’s ...
"For a time, the flying boat was seen as the way of the future. These aircraft, so strange and foreign to the modern mind, once criss-crossed the world and fulfilled essential military roles. In his ...