How to Use flying boat in a Sentence
flying boat
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Some were fresh out of flight school, others flew lumbering flying boats or were ferry pilots for large bombers.
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Brad Lendon,
CNN Money,
1 Sep. 2025
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Two sea planes took off that night in search of Flight 19, though one of those flying boats also vanished from radar, and its 13-member crew went missing.
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Lorenzino Estrada,
AZCentral.com,
5 Dec. 2025
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The carrier’s flying boats would travel between Australia and Sri Lanka, staying airborne long enough for passengers to witness two sunrises.
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Marisa Garcia,
Forbes.com,
25 May 2026
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The work chronicles Pan Am’s predicament during the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the flying boat service the carrier had in the Pacific.
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Miami Herald,
21 Oct. 2025
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Between world wars, Pan Am used the airport for takeoffs and landings of its famous flying boats, the Clippers, eventually leading to the groundbreaking and construction of the airport.
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Miami Herald Archives,
Miami Herald,
26 Mar. 2026
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These flights from Perth to Sri Lanka and on to London (in four days) were, made from 1943 to 1945 using lumbering PBY Catalina flying boats.
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Michael Goldstein,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2026
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Presidents have been flying since Teddy Roosevelt took off in a Wright Brothers biplane on a campaign swing in 1910 and Franklin Roosevelt crossed the Atlantic in office on a flying boat during World War II.
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Alexandra Skores,
CNN Money,
24 June 2026
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Tiki culture is an art, music, and lifestyle movement born in the 1930s with the success of ukulele music, romantic posters of cruises to tropical destinations on Pan Am Clipper flying boats, and films like 1933’s King Kong with its mysterious Skull Island.
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Michael Goldstein,
Forbes.com,
17 May 2026
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