#flyingboat

First flying on 28 December 1933, the Loire 70 was a long-range maritime reconnaissance flying boat designed for the French Navy. Seven production aircraft were ordered and along with the prototype served with Escadrille E7 at Karouba in Tunisia. At the start of the Second World War, they carried out patrols in the Mediterranean. On 12 June 1940, an Italian air raid destroyed three of the four surviving aircraft. The sole surviving Loire 70 was requested to be scrapped on 4 October 1941.

A Boeing 314 Clipper 'Berwick" in military service Formerly owned by Pan Am, it was operated the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC). In the posed, possibly colourised image, taken in 1943, "female seamen of BOAC moor the flying boat," in Poole Harbour where flights from the UK to the US via Lisbon and the Azores, along with routes to West Africa and Cairo began. Both Roosevelt and Churchill flew in the Clippers several times, the black & white picture reputedly shows Churchill at the controls.

Courtesy of Lazzarini Design

Packard advert in National Geographical Magazine. 1925

Lost at sea - Perdu en mer

Ragazza e rondoni 55x89cm Michael Pontieri 2020

20210309 Kakamigahara museum 4 by Bong Grit UF-XSを後ろから。赤いおしりが印象的。 @Gifu-Kakamigahara air and space museum, Kakamigahara city, Gifu pref. （岐阜県各務原市 岐阜かかみがはら航空宇宙博物館） https://ift.tt/3sZ6iSL