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Wonderful. Much admire your commitment to aviation and flying boats. The boats will return as the realisation that the needed infrastructure required, is much less than the slanted land based ones that exist at the moment. Good luck, keep at it. We should be led by need and not by political parsimony. Rmb5*

Beautiful planes the Clippers.. But the Mars oh boy!!

Great stuff!!

I just noticed your page doesn't have anything about the Martin Mars.

This is the PBM IN PORT ALBERNIE BRITUSH COLUMBIA THAT I climbed into.

Look at the luxury?? Today we are considered homeless to them

thanks for posting from the UK - home of the Short Sunderland 'flying porcupine'

I was arrested at the Coast Guard ramp for Fishing, Drinking and Public Urination...Confiscated my fishing rig and Roadmaster bicycle, $500 fine..whew😢

They kill fish and birds😢

As a young schoolboy I made a model seaplane , read about Biggles and his seaplane exploits in seaplanes .at 70, still find them fascinating planes. Especially clippers

A wonderful job.

Thank you for this historic footage, particularly of Bermuda where I am from. At 42 minutes into this video s Boeing 314 lands to arrive at Darrells Island passing the shoreline where, fifteen years later, my parents built a pleasant waterfront home.

These babies were war winners

Happy Birthday fella, are these flights going on patrols or training runs down the mach loop etc?

That is a sweet setup. I just bought a kit today and found this. Thanks for uploading and I know it's been 4 years since you posted this but if you see this, let me know what retracts those are and where you got them, thanks.

I like the inner gear door thing. I will be working with a Robart door sequencer for pneumatic main gear retracts. I wanted to do an inner door as well like yours.

Crossing the Atlantic was easy compared to crossing the massive Pacific.

turbulence would of been a bitch

EXCELLENT! AMAZING! EXCITING VIDEO!!!!! Thank you for posting this video.

To bad that the sound can nt be heared properly!! I love aviation, and my father was one of the very few people I can talk about these matters where I am living. As he is developing dementia, no more talks, so now more than ever, I wtch all the videos on this subject. Love Aviation and Aerospace. Love to learn. Thanks you for your videos, and for staying around!!

This video is filled with errors, exaggerations of performance , greed presented as "dreams'"...and worse, scandalous adulation of an Hitler lover , C. Lindberg . Propaganda crap at itts best.

Love the staggerwing. Get a little longer takeoff roll. Do not force it in the air.

Hope Japanese Kingdom Country Can Made The Big Flying Boat Water Bombing For Forest Wild Fireds Like What Happening In Hawaii & Canada US Country Include In Greeck Country, _ Thanks All, ..... Cheerio.*****.

The Plane Flying Boat Is To Short And Little Capacity, Angine To Little Need More Big And Powered ( 4 Angine ) , _ Thanks All, .... Cheerio.*****.

Is that the Top Flite giant scale? 85in wingspan? Trying to find an alternative electric gear other that spending $550 on the Robart electric gear for the P-47.

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Hey! Trace the route of the B-314 at the beginning of WW-2. Wouldn't you just love to take that round the world flight?

Large seaplanes are still being built and flying ... look up the AGC600

The Boeing 314 is featured heavily in Ken Follett's novel Night Over Water, set just as WWII is starting in 1939.

Why no closed caption? (cc)

Though not about the Americas, Alexander Frater has written the excellent "Beyond the blue horizon" about Imperial Airways and their routes to the far east using flying boats in the 20's& 30's.

Great video series on the "Flying Boats". If I were a billionare, I'd have the Spruce Goose flying to Europe and Hawaii !!!

Great footage!!!

I was very fortunate to fly the PBY and the Grumman Mallard and Goose. Wonderful experience which I will never forget.

way cooler than joe biden🖕

Way better than ocean gate.

This video should be shown to school age kids in class. What is possible when we aim to greater heights.

The Do.X barely 'flew' at all. Even in the clip you show, the aircraft is flying in ground effect rather than flying 'properly'. Just FYI: the interior shots of passengers eating, sleeping, etc. and crew working are taken from a Pan Am advertorial (!!!) film called 'China Clipper'. None of those shots were taken in flight and the 'passengers' were all PAAS (Pan American Airways Systems) employees. The range quoted for the Boeing Model 314 (3500 miles) is really incorrect. The longest commericial leg flown by the 314 was 2410 miles from San Francisco to Oahu. The range of Model 314-A (not the 314) was quoted by Boeing as 3500 miles but they failed to qualify that as 'full fuel and NO payload'.

Great footage of wonderful planes - too bad it neglected to mention the fact that all 3 Martin clippers were lost in fatal crashes . . . . .

Great series.

Interesting, although the music.... Rick Grant's dream of restoring and flying the Solent commercially never came to fruition. It's a museum display now.

Excellent Video !

Floatplanes are not flying boats!

After the initial effort of getting an heavier than air aircraft to fly I have for many years thought that Glenn Curtis far outstripped the Wrights in improvements and innovation to powered flight.

Excellent film, thank you . . .

I agree with you Completely ❤ It

looks like an old idea which with new material and computing could make a. come back with inflatable gear or similar

Flying boats have always been fascinating to me. This video was most interesting.

Just after WWII, my Dad was stationed in the Northwest Territories to provide care to the indigenous people. (He became very fond of them, and they of him.) The only way my Dad could get to the isolated communities up there, hundreds of miles away from roads, was via a float plane. When my mother discovered that I was on the way, my Dad moved the family to a small town near my parents’ relatives and began a prosperous practice. He received letters from friends up the the wilderness that he sometimes missed. One piece of news upset him. My Dad found out that every one of the bush pilots he and my mother considered friends had been killed in flying accidents.

Never heard of the Viking. What a beast.