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The U.S. Navy's 50-year romance with the flying boat
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Part One
In its tempestuous love affair with the flying boat, it took the Navy nearly a halfcentury to finally concede that wheeled aircraft posed far fewer operational problems.
From its initial experiments with powered flight the Navy resolved that flying boats should dominate the development of naval aviation.
Motivated by the ideology that the best way to justify airplanes was to mate them with the same environment in which ships operated - on the earth's oceans th...
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