Company Wigetworks have created AirFish-8, a boat/plane hybrid that glides on water ... aircraft is able to produce additional lift when flying near the ground. AirFish-8 has a V8 car engine ...

China claims to have successfully tested a new sea plane, purportedly the largest in the world, and while its primary purposes are firefighting and water rescue, this new aircraft could be used to ...

In his latest YouTube video, [Peter] takes viewers through the process of turning one of these rather lame RC boats into an impressive flying machine ... which the whole plane flies.

The planes are the last two remaining Martin Mars flying boats, cargo aircraft built in the 1940s for military use and later converted for civilian firefighting purposes.

Flying boats flew from Poole to US and parts of the British Empire during the 1930s and '40s. Poole mayor Lindsay Wilson said the planes were an "important part of our town's history". BOAC was a ...