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1784 Universal Mag. 75 221/1 Mr. Blanchard..during the late war, formed a flying boat, which he intended for carrying the dispatches from Brest to Paris, but as this did not answer his expectations, he was obliged to relinquish the idea of elevating himself above the clouds.

1854 A. C. Mowatt Autobiogr. Actress 108 In a single night, the booths, the fairy houses, the circus, flying boats, cars, horses disappear.

1903 O. Chanute Let. 13 Mar. in M. W. McFarland Wright Pap. (1953) I. 301 Today I spent with Wm. Kress who experimented with a flying boat last year.

1913 Aeroplane 24 Apr. 470/1 The death of Louis Gaudart showed what a deathtrap the ordinary type of flying-boat is.

1917 C. C. Turner Aircraft of To-day xix. 277 The twin-engined Curtiss flying-boat ‘America’.

1928 Manch. Guardian Weekly 31 Aug. 178/3 A flying-boat service between Sydney and Wellington.

1934 ‘R. Crompton’ William—the Gangster iii. 49 Riding upon merry-go-rounds, flying in flying-boats, sliding down helter-skelters.

1958 Times 18 July 6/5 Britain's only remaining air line using flying-boats, Aquila Air~ways, are to cease operations on October 1.

1971 Daily Tel. 16 July (Colour Suppl.) 5/3 One of the Sunderland flying boats between Cairo and India: a yacht of the sky, landing on the sea or inland lakes as it hopped from point to point.