Board Thread:Event Official Threads/@comment-35182244-20160811090319/@comment-25861293-20160817000118

The way range works changed in this event. A squadron can only fly as far as the lowest range aircraft in the squadron. Type 2 Flying Boat adds three range to that, which is what makes it useful.

One Ginga and one Reppuu can only fly five nodes. With a flying boat, they could fly eight nodes.

Now I can sleep easy. No more asking those poor fairies with low range to make one-way sorties for the sake of a failed farming run.