Talk:Type 2 Large Flying Boat/@comment-5492702-20150428130856/@comment-26114359-20150428162155

Yes and no. Generally, all planes that has the capability of taking off and landing at the water is a seaplane. Now a seaplane is divided into two, the float plane and the flying boat. Float planes have pontoons and can only land at water. A flying boat has a boat hull for an airframe and can land both at sea and land. The latter is also much bigger than the former and cannot be carried on ships, at least on ships not specialized for servicing flying boats. If we call seaplanes are the same as flying boats then that would be similar to calling floatplanes are the same as flying boats.

In general, all flying boats are seaplanes, but not all seaplanes are flying boats