First World War maritime aviation produced many small aircraft families instead of concentrating on a few very large production runs. Flying boats and seaplanes were developed almost in real time, often in batches of only a few hundred or fewer. The result was a crowded field of hulls, engines, armament arrangements, and operating ideas. That variety records rapid wartime experimentation across waterborne aviation.
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Many small production runs accelerated maritime-aircraft experiments
Waterborne aircraft evolved through numerous modest production runs, creating more design variety than the larger standardized runs familiar from land aviation.