Nagoya tech school students plan to build seaplane for flood rescues
Members of Nagoya City Technical High School's airplane club are planning to develop a seaplane that can be used to rescue people from floods — an idea they came up with after learning about the Ise Bay Typhoon, a 1959 storm that swept through ...
Seaplane line may launch sightseeing flights over Sea of Japan and Seto Inland Sea
The nation's only seaplane company is thinking of launching a new service for tourists next spring to show off parts of western Japan facing the Sea of Japan and the Seto Inland Sea. Setouchi Seaplanes plans to fly its amphibious Kodiak 100s between the Sanin ...
Seaplanes touted as tourism lifeline in regional Japan
Seaplanes used to be a common form of transport in the Japanese archipelago, with scheduled cargo and passenger flights operating mainly in western Japan until the mid-1960s. But as shinkansen trains and regional airports, which enable faster transport links with greater capacity, developed, seaplanes were ...
