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Transport Flying-Boats

Life and Death

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

B. S. Shenstone
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Extract

      When I was young and in my prime,
      The Boats were flying all the time.
      But now that I am old and gray,
      Those Boats, like me, have had their Day.

The first time I saw flying-boats close-up was in 1928. The first was an old Curtiss HS2L being used in Tima-gami for forest fire patrol in northern Canada. Designed in about 1916, this antique was at the end of its tether, but was doing a job that no other aircraft could do until a replacement became available. The second flying-boat I saw was this replacement, the Canadian Vickers Vedette, another single-engined pusher biplane, but a much better one.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 73 , Issue 708 , December 1969 , pp. 1038 - 1040
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1969 

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