"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 ...
Martin’s PBM Mariner emerges from the late 1930s as a giant flying boat designed to outclass earlier patrol aircraft in range, payload, endurance, and crew comfort. Built with a huge hull, gull wings, ...
Pan Am's 1937 promotional film Flying the Lindbergh Trail traces Charles Lindbergh's earliest flights across the Caribbean and South America, promoting the airline's new commercial flights on their ...