Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People came out to watch jet boats speed up and down the Payette River at speeds well over 100 miles-per-hour.

The U.S. military has employed a wide variety of aircraft over the years to transport troops, deliver cargo, and engage in combat. Perhaps no aircraft in its historical fleet, however, is more random ...

Saunders-Roe and others kept trying to save the flying boat by making it bigger, faster, more luxurious, and eventually more futuristic, culminating in extraordinary concepts like the Queen, a ...

Floatplanes are generally easier for general aviation pilots to transition to, offer more conventional handling, perform better on glassy water and in confined take-off areas, and are more accessible ...

"For a time, the flying boat was seen as the way of the future. These aircraft, so strange and foreign to the modern mind, once criss-crossed the world and fulfilled essential military roles. In his ...