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Flying boat   /flˈaɪɪŋ boʊt/   Listen
Flying boat

noun
1.
A large seaplane that floats with its fuselage in the water rather than on pontoons.





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"Flying boat" Quotes from Famous Books



... Mr. Rodman Wanamaker gave Glenn H. Curtiss a commission to build a flying boat which would fly across the Atlantic. Commander Porte was brought from England, and he, with Mr. Curtiss, worked out the designs for a flying boat much larger than any previously built, and fitted with two motors instead of one. As entirely separate ...
— History of the World War - An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War • Francis A. March and Richard J. Beamish
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... a bully plan. If we can make it and if he can get leave we will explore the headwaters of the Amazon with a two-passenger Curtiss flying boat, maybe next year. ...
— The Trail of the Hawk - A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life • Sinclair Lewis
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... surface and came up dazed and nearly stunned. As he floated, dashing the water from his eyes, he saw the Drifter, now a flying boat, cut around a point of rocks, bearing ...
— Dave Dashaway and his Hydroplane • Roy Rockwood
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... his small two-seated racer, since it was the fastest craft in the hangar. Realizing, however, that Captain Britten might want to bring along considerable baggage, the young inventor had told Ned he felt it best to go in his flying boat. ...
— Tom Swift and His Giant Telescope • Victor Appleton
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... the verdurous gateway steering, The strong-armed oarsmen urge their flying boat, Till now, the broad horizon disappearing, On the still island-lake they pause ...
— Atlantic Monthly Volume 6, No. 37, November, 1860 • Various
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