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flying boat
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flying boat: see seaplane seaplane, airplane designed to take off from and alight on water. The two most common types are the floatplane, whose fuselage is supported by struts attached to two or more pontoon floats, and the flying boat, whose boat-hull fuselage is constructed with the
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flying boat
a seaplane in which the fuselage consists of a hull that provides buoyancy in the water

flying boat [¦flī·iŋ ¦bōt]
(aerospace engineering)
A seaplane with a fuselage that acts as a hull and is the means of the plane's support on water.


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Mr Jones, who became Ireland's oldest skydiver three years ago when he did a charity parachute jump, used to train captains and crew on the 17-tonne Catalina flying boats during six-hour flights along the Donegal corridor.
 
 
 
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