This book is the result of a meeting between Max Pinucci (Italian designer working on modern seaplanes) and Hideaki Ozawa (Japanese 3D artist and researcher) with the Air Force and aviation experts Stefano Cosci (scientific advice and editorial coordination) and Gregory Alegi (historical advice).

Just over a decade ago, industrialist Jacques Schneider, almost as a wager, proposed a challenge between seaplanes. Slowly but surely, the race came to the world’s attention not only for its technical and competitive challenges: the myth of speed and flying mechanics of incomparable elegance, in which form and function are integrated, reached heights that are still unmatched today. Realised over twenty years of work between a team of artists and authors, narrated through meticulous digital reconstructions, this volume is a tribute to the racing cars that challenged each other, between 1913 and 1931, skimming the waves of the seas.