Stenning received his knighthood within half an hour of his landing on the Thames, having sweated and cursed his way through his forty-thousand-mile flight alone round the world in the little Rawdon Dabchick flying-boat. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Also, because so many people ask for it: The Original Irish coffee recipe, developed at the old flying-boat base at Foynes (near the present Shannon Airport). ❋ Unknown (2006)
A Sunderland flying-boat brought the Commander-in-Chief of Mediterranean forces, HMS Wrangler took supplies to Ithaca, and before long there turned up HMS Bermuda, the Forth, the Reggio, and the New Zealand ship, The Black Prince. ❋ De Bernieres, Louis (2003)
Grumman JRF 1939-1945 fixed-wing flying-boat utility . . . more info ❋ John L. Trapp (2002)
Grumman U-16 1955 fixed-wing flying-boat utility . . . more info ❋ John L. Trapp (2002)
Prince Paul's closest friend in Europe - and his brother-in-law - is the Duke of Kent: well, he was until the Duke was killed in a flying-boat accident last year. ❋ MacLean, Alistair (1982)
Two days later, when a signal had been received that the German flying-boat "mother ship" Schwabenland was reported in the South Atlantic the staff discussed the possibility of her being the raider; and on 7th October Captain J.W. Clayton, the Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence, reported that he was not sure that the raider was the ❋ Pope, Dudley (1956)
Next day the Graf Spee's wireless operators intercepted a good deal of signalling between the British flying-boat Beothik and British steamers. ❋ Pope, Dudley (1956)
An amphibian is a flying-boat or seaplane that is fitted with landing wheels to enable it to put down on land or water. ❋ Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 (1951)
This instrument may be turned toward a land or sea wireless station, of which the call is known, and it will register the bearing from the flying-boat to this station. ❋ Gordon Lamont (N/A)
About the same time the flying-boat, piloted by a Boston man, and the biplane, in control of two Englishmen, had reached Yokohama, Japan, within a few hours of each other. ❋ Chelsea Curtis Fraser (N/A)
Only four of the eleven aircraft to start had succeeded in getting across the treacherous Atlantic, two of these being dirigible balloons, one a flying-boat, and the other a Vickers-Vimy biplane. ❋ Chelsea Curtis Fraser (N/A)
Sir HENRY NORMAN surprised the police in Palace Yard by arriving on a motor-scooter, and there is an unconfirmed rumour that the Editor of _John Bull_ made his _rentree_ to the House in a flying-boat drawn by four _canards sauvages. ❋ Various (N/A)
American efforts to cross the Atlantic by air date back to the spring of 1914 when the flying-boat _America_ was built to the order of ❋ Gordon Lamont (N/A)
Another project, given up owing to recent disturbances, was one for a flying-boat service on the Nile. ❋ Frederick Hugh Sykes (1915)
Then there is the flying-boat, developed under naval auspices. ❋ Lawrence Perry (1914)
The flying-boat, which was only a few hundred yards distant, slightly altered its course, now heading toward them in a way that left no doubt that the steersman had detected their presence. ❋ David Lindsay (1910)
I have come back to you with great peril in my flying-boat to tell you of the upper world and all its goodness. ❋ George Allan England (1906)
when one asks their friend " dude did you have a [hard time] [taking a shower] high?"
dude:"[its like] flying a boat ❋ Andy Spinxter (2006)
hey, [would you like to] fly the boat? (would u [like to] get extremely [high]) ❋ Andrew God Damn This Thing (2006)
I hate this place on [the 4th] of [July], every boat fly [in town] is here! ❋ Dbm.93 (2019)
