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    Romancing the Clippers - An excerpt from THE GOLDEN AGE OF FLYING BOATS by Peter Pigott
    Malcolm Turner
    • 3 min

    Romancing the Clippers - An excerpt from THE GOLDEN AGE OF FLYING BOATS by Peter Pigott

    https://www.burntash.eu/flying-boats-golden-age Juan Trippe’s fascination with maritime tradition was everywhere. “The Clipper was a ship...
    An extract from: The Golden Age of Flying Boats by Peter Pigott
    Malcolm Turner
    • 3 min

    An extract from: The Golden Age of Flying Boats by Peter Pigott

    https://www.burntash.eu/flying-boats-golden-age Through the war some 650 BOAC staff were employed at Poole on the flying boat services. A...
    THE MAN WHO INVENTED FLYING BOATS
    Malcolm Turner
    • 7 min

    THE MAN WHO INVENTED FLYING BOATS

    An excerpt from Peter Pigott's forthcoming book: The Golden Age of Flying Boats
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