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Welcome to the SEAWINGS website - the largest flying boat reference website in the World - the home of the flying boat 'in detail' on the web - also hosting the only dedicated Flying Boat Forum, the exclusive Flying Boat Shop and not forgetting 'On The Step' the SEAWINGS Blog.

SEAWINGS specialises in providing information for the scale modeler, historian and enthusiast in the form of contemporary and modern photographs, plans and articles detailing flying boats of various types, scale model kit construction and reviews, together with close-up photographic 'walk-rounds' of most of the surviving examples and much, much more! Enjoy!

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Buy the latest print from the superbly talented artist and flying boat aficianardo Tom Kalina, showing a Sikorsky RS-3 in USMC markings, one of only two of these in use, this being the second one. There are just 20 signed & numbered prints of it currently being made available to purchase. Click the image to visit Tom's website for more details.

Manuals from the Dawn of Aviation to the Present Day..!

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This site would not offer as much information and detail as it already does without the help and contribution of many companies and individuals. A number of these have been outstanding in their assistance and must be specially thanked for the time and effort taken - they are:-

RAF Museum, London	RAF Cosford, UK	British Aerospace Plc	Norman Harry, UK	James Jennings, Arizona
Fotios Rouch, Arizona	Maurice Sagius, Holland	Ken Withey, UK	Bill Devins, USA	Grumman Aerospace Inc
Dave Koss, Canada	Imperial War Museum, Duxford, UK	Imperial War Museum, London	Science Museum, London	William T. Larkins, USA
Axel Ganz, Germany	Alex Norton, Canada	Pete London, UK	Stuart 'Reggie' Martindale, UK	John Smith, UK
Bruce John Vander Mark, USA	Douglas B. Wilde, USA	Louis Emond, Canada	Bill Bailey, USA	Brian Cassidy, UK
Bill Mortimer, UK	J-Christophe Polet, France	Bob Wealthy, UK	David H. Marion, USA	Bill Spargo, Australia
Edward Pagel, USA	Scott Barrus, USA	Greg Knowles, Australia	Andy Doran, UK	Chris Eldridge, Canada

This site is owned and operated by 'SEAWINGS' - aka Bryan Ribbans - webmaster, scale modeler, author and flying boat enthusiast, for the benefit of all flying boat scale modelers, historians and aviation enthusiasts with a love of these craft. It is not intended to infringe any copyright and all reasonable steps have been taken to avoid this. It is believed that all material displayed here, other than SEAWINGS's own photographs, written articles and reviews, is freely available within the public domain or has been freely given for use, by the owner. If this should not be the case then a polite e-mail will suffice to have the offending material removed or credited. It is SEAWINGS's policy to immediately remove upon notification and identification, any specific image, article or other matter displayed on this site represented to be owned or copyrighted by other parties who express a desire not to have it included on the website. Should you, or any organisation possess the copyright to any such image and be able to prove such a claim, please contact SEAWINGS at your earliest convenience. Use of this material is not intended as a copyright infringement on any author, artist, photographer or any other entity's copyrighted material. If you believe that any material found on this site has been used in a manner that constitutes infringement of your copyrighted work, please provide written notice to SEAWINGS that includes: the signature of the owner or a person authorised to act on behalf of the owner of the item that is allegedly infringed, details of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, where the infringing material is located on this site, your contact information and a statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorised by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law. Having done so and proven, the offending image will be removed immediately. All donations of photographs and written material for use on this site are gratefully accepted on the basis that no financial reward is asked for or given and that all such material displayed here is for the benefit of flying boat enthusiasts world-wide. SEAWINGS: 2000- 2012 © Bryan Ribbans, Essex, England.