Town celebrates golden age of flying boats

FOYNES yesterday turned back the clock more than 60 years to spectacular effect.

The flying boat era which put the Co Limerick port on the world map has been recaptured in a €2 million expansion to the local Flying Boat Museum, which was officially opened by Tourism Minister John O’Donoghue.

The centrepiece of the extended museum is a full-size replica of a Yankee Clipper flying boat — the fastest civil aircraft flying the Atlantic during the Second World War.