David Oliver
Jet Flying Boats
Jet Flying Boats
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During World War II, over 9,000 flying boats were produced to fulfill various roles, but their military use declined after the war. It took twenty years for a new breed of multi-engine flying boats to emerge, with the Dornier Seastar and AG600 being built in China. Turboprop conversions of piston-engine flying boats have also been successful, and the book explores the legacy of flying boats in the twenty-first century.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 96 pages
Publication date: 15 March 2018
Publisher: Amberley Publishing
During the Second World War, the main protagonists produced over 9,000 flying boats, fulfilling a multitude of roles such as maritime reconnaissance, bombing, fleet spotting, search and rescue, long-range transport, and communications. However, time was running out, and a little over a decade after the war's end, the military flying boat seemed to be a dying breed on the verge of extinction. It would be another twenty years before a new breed of multi-engine flying boats would leave the drawing boards of leading aerospace companies to successfully fulfill their traditional military roles of maritime reconnaissance and search and rescue, as well as one at which they have proved to be very adept, that of aerial fire-fighting.
Currently, the twin-turboprop-powered twelve-seat Dornier Seastar amphibian is being built in China, which is also developing the AG600 search and rescue amphibian for the Chinese Navy. There have been several successful turboprop conversions of piston-engine flying boats, such as the Grumman Mallard and Canadair CL-215 amphibians.
In this book, aviation historian David Oliver covers the little-known flying-boat legacy of the Second World War, which includes jet fighter flying boat projects; the jet maritime reconnaissance flying boat development in the Cold War; the successes and failures of turbo-prop flying boats; converted turbo-prop flying boats; as well as the new horizons for flying boats in the twenty-first century.
Weight: 272g
Dimension: 233 x 166 x 9 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781445646138
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