The story of the flying boats and seaplanes of Solent and Poole.

Flying Boats: Air Travel in the Golden Age sets out to do justice to a time of glamorous, unhurried air travel, unrecognisable to most of today's air travellers

The history of the development and operations of flying boats in the early twentieth century is a vibrant one, full of colourful characters and experimentation.

From Henri Fabre's first successful take-off from water, to the introduction of a hull (rather than floats) by American Glenn Curtiss, to the world-wide develop