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ALL ABOARD THE FLYING BOAT

ALL ABOARD THE FLYING BOAT

PAGES 46, 47.
In the 2026 Showcase issue of Aircraft Interiors International magazine, Jennifer Coutts Clay relates the history of the Boeing B314, a long-range aircraft that took off and landed on the water. It carried mail, cargo, and passengers across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans in the 1930s and 1940s. She explains how visionary Pan Am Founder Juan Trippe commissioned the B314 to compete with ocean liners. Clay describes the passenger experience aboard these luxurious flying boats and invites readers to visit a 100% full-scale model of the B314 at Foynes Flying Boat & Maritime Museum in the Republican of Ireland.

‘[Juan Trippe believed] that boarding the B314 should feel like entering a flying hotel, rather than embarking on a daring aerial adventure.’

23 January 2026

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Grateful acknowledgement is given to the airlines and other organizations credited in this book for permission to use their photographs.
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