Even if the flying boat concept were a land-based blended wing body, the design would buck all industry trends. Current state of the art airliners such as the Boeing 787, Boeing 777X and Airbus ...

Spruce Goose flew only once before it was retired. To this day, it remains the largest flying boat ever built and, perhaps just as importantly, one of the most controversial. Photo: Yelken Octuri ...

Forget flying cars. One bold designer wants to help you live out your Baron Munchausen dreams. The Flying Yacht, a new concept by designer Yelken Octuri, takes two potentially conflicting forms of ...

Centrostiledesign wants the world to get aboard flying boats. The Italian studio, which is helmed by noted yacht designer Davide Cipriani, has just unveiled a futuristic foiling yacht concept with ...

If the wings snap in rough weather or the hulls suddenly smack into the water, the boat could take a nosedive. “Flying in waves can be dangerous,” says lead designer Jean-Mathieu Bourgeon.

Concept art for General Atomics’ Liberty Lifter ... Aurora Flight Sciences’ concept looks more like, well, a traditional flying boat plane, with a single fuselage and 8 turboprop engines ...

It's the dream. Now, it appears that NASA holds the same belief, as it just funded a flying boat concept that could study alien lakes. In the last round of funding in NASA's Innovative Advanced ...