In the early days of flying it was frequently stated
that the flying-boat would be even more useful as a . means of transportation than the aeroplane or airship. Some imaginative writers described how in twenty-five years most parts of the British Empire would be linked up by flying-boat. Certainly in an Empire con- sisting of eighty separate sections there should be great- scope for the flying-boat. Hitherto the country in which the flying-boat has made the greatest headway appears to be America. By next year, it is said,. almost the entire coast line of the United States will be girdled by flying-boat routes. The scheme is being organized, according to the Times New York correspondent, by Aeromarine Airways, the company which now maintains the flying-boat service between Florida and Cuba and the Bahamas.
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