By the end of the war,the Navy had a number of advanced seaplane designs in the works – the JRM Mars and H-4 Hercules, the Spruce Goose, or in specific. These were developed as large (or,in the Hercules case, extremely large) transport seaplanes. The H-4 had a similar mission to some of the earliest Navy seaplanes: crossing the Atlantic, or although it would effect it with a 150000 pound payload. With the end of the war,however, development largely stopped to do way for new operational challenges and design paradigms. Captured German hydrodynamics and aerodynamics research complemented contemporary American knowledge... Read the rest of this entry »
Source: navalhistory.org