The second of three programmes In the 1930s the world was opened up for airline passengers and the flying boat took pride of place in the development of new routes. First was the largest aircraft in the world, the huge 12-engined German Dornier flying boat, soon to be followed by the graceful Empire flying boats of Imperial Airways reaching out to Africa, the Far East and Australia.
David Lomax continues the story of the flying boats and those who flew in them until 1939 when the transatlantic service was started, only to be sharply interrupted by war -when the flying boat had a new role to play.
(Part 3 tomorrow at 3.45 pm)