Flying boats are a rare piece of aviation history — and I had the chance to not only find one, but learn to fly it. From ...
Initially developed as a Navy patrol flying boat, the aircraft later served as cargo transport. The Philippine Mars will be displayed at the Pima Air and Space Museum in Arizona. The last Martin Mars ...
It lacked the sleek lines of a fighter or the imposing presence of a heavy bomber, yet the Consolidated PBY Catalina became ...
Flying boats opened up travel destinations around the world—then they went to war Dave Kindy A Sikorsky S-43 banks near Galveston, Texas, in 1993. Nicknamed the “baby clipper,” it was a smaller ...
The Pacific during the Second World War was the largest battlefield in history, yet all but a tiny fraction of it was water.
When I first began covering Candela and the company’s flying electric boats, I thought it was pretty cool tech that only a few people could ever dream of experiencing. Fast forward to a few days ago ...
You know how boats usually sail on water, right? Well, what if I told you there’s a boat that can fly over water, like a bird or a plane? Sounds crazy, right? But it’s true. There’s a company in ...
Sitting on the picturesque Sproat Lake in British Columbia, Canada is the last operational example of a famous flying boat. And after 77 years of dutiful service, it's not ready to quit yet. This ...
It's Sea Month here at autoevolution. A month in which we celebrate all things that sail across the world's seas and oceans (or seas and oceans on other worlds in some cases). For some people, the ...
Candela, based in Sweden, is at the forefront of an international array of startups making electric hydrofoiling boats (it has delivered around 100 leisure boats, and has orders for 83 ferries). Its ...