flying boat

noun

1. a seaplane whose main body is a hull adapted for floating.

flying boat

noun

1. a seaplane in which the fuselage consists of a hull that provides buoyancy in the water

Word History and Origins

Origin of flying boat¹

First recorded in 1900–05

Example Sentences

The flight lieutenant, from Aberdeen, earned the honour for an attack on a German U-Boat while piloting a Catalina flying boat in June 1944.

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Lough Erne was a base for RAF Coastal Command flying boats protecting Allied shipping convoys in the Atlantic.

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Later it became the world's largest military flying boat station during World War Two.

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“President Franklin D. Roosevelt traveled by Boeing Clipper to meet with Winston Churchill at the Casablanca Conference in 1943. On the way home, Roosevelt celebrated his birthday in the flying boat’s dining room.”

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“I heard a rumbling sound and saw a flying boat, as Thais called it back then,” recalled an animated Mr. Sao, now 87.

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