flying boat in English

noun

1

a large seaplane that lands with its fuselage in the water.

Unlike float planes, flying boats land on the water on their fuselage as well as on their wing floats.

Use "flying boat" in a sentence

1. MP-1 : Civil version of the MBR-2M-17 flying-boat.

2. The Dornier Do R Superwal was a German flying boat airliner of the 1920s.

3. They included the Model 306 bomber, Model 306 flying boat, and Model 306A airliner.

4. The Loire 130 was a French flying boat that saw service during World War II.

5. “Meanwhile an Englishman —later knighted as Sir Thomas Sopwith— had built a single-hull flying boat.

6. Circa 1936: Sleeping Berths on an Imperial Airways Flying Boat, most likely of the Short Empire [+] class

7. The Boeing 314 Clipper was an American long-range flying boat produced by Boeing from 1938 to 1941

8. Unable to dive, U-26 was forced to surface where she was bombed by a Sunderland flying boat.

9. But if airships were the last word in luxury then the penultimate word belonged to the flying boat.

10. The Saunders Roe A.27 London was a British military biplane flying boat built by the Saunders Roe company.

11. For such a large flying boat, the K-200 likely would have been powered by the Ne-330 turbojet.

12. When the pre-war airport, a flying boat facility on Darrell's Island, closed in 1948, Bermuda's air routes were taken over by land planes operating through the airfield.

13. Due to their passive flotation abilities, an Airship can possess a greater range and fuel efficiency than airplanes, such as a flying boat.[citation needed] Airships vary in their design, but most appear to possess a rigid frame due to the ribbing that can be seen through the envelope, and