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seadrome|ˈsiːdrəʊm|
[f. sea n. + -drome, after aerodrome.]
A floating aerodrome, an offshore airport; spec. (in early use) one of a series of constructions on or at which a (sea) plane could alight (for refuelling) during a journey.
The seadrome exists solely as a concept. None has yet been built.
1923Daily Mail 17 July 10 The feature of the project is that there should be eight ‘seadromes’..moored permanently on the Altantic air route. 1936J. Grierson High Failure xiv. 293 A series of floating platforms (colloquially called ‘sea-dromes’) on which planes could alight, spaced at intervals of 5–600 miles across the Atlantic. 1947Jrnl. R. Aeronaut. Soc. LI. 143/2 If alighting places for flying boats were more easy to provide than aerodromes, could Mr. Lipscomb offer any reason why they..suffered from lack of ‘sea-dromes’, whereas there were plenty of very costly aerodromes for landplanes? 1948Trinidad Guardian 18 June 2/1 (heading) Seadrome site inspected. 1969Daily Tel. 4 Sept. 24/2 The seadrome scheme for Foulness plans a floating airport complex measuring five million square yards. 1970New Scientist 22 Jan. 156/1 The two firms of engineers..are already discussing their plans for a ‘Seadrome’ with one of the Thames estuary development companies. |