The Flying Boat Forum from www.seawings.co.uk

Early Days to the end of World War One - 1918
From Curtiss through to the Felixstowe 'boats

Between the Wars - The 'Golden' Era - 1918 to 1939
From the Singapore and Southampton through to the Short Empire

World War II - 1939 to 1945
The Short Sunderland, Dornier Do-24, Kawanishi H8K 'Emily' and many more.

1945 - Post War up to Today's Modern Aviation
Martin Seamaster through to the Canadair CL-215 & 415 and the Shinmaiwa US-1.

W.I.G.'s (Wing-In-Ground-effect) Craft
Ekranoplans - the Lun Class, the A-90 Orlyonok, the 'Caspian Sea Monster', the civilian classes - indeed anything that can be naturally classed as a W.I.G. can be discussed here.

'What If's' - Flying Boat Might Have Beens, Prototypes, One-Off's and Proposals.
This is the forum for photo's, plans, drawings and all details of those flying boats that were discussed, proposed , planned and reached prototype stage, yet never - for whatever reason - went into series production.