seadromen.
/ˈsiːdrəʊm/ 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.
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1923 Daily Mail 17 July 10 The feature of the project is that there should be eight ‘seadromes’..moored permanently on the Atlantic air route.
1927 Daily Express 6 July 9/5 A seadrome which is to be moored about five hundred and fifty miles east of New York to provide a landing-place for Transatlantic airplanes.
1936 J. 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.
1947 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 51 143/2 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?
1948 Trinidad Guardian 18 June 2/1 (heading) Seadrome site inspected.
1969 Daily Tel. 4 Sept. 24/2 The seadrome scheme for Foulness plans a floating airport complex measuring five million square yards.
1970 New 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.
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