DVD Solent Flying Boats & Aircraft Newsreels, British PatheDVD Solent Flying Boats & Aircraft Newsreels, British Pathe Rare and historic film footage of flying boats and aircraft. Rare newsreels from the British Pathe collection with forty five minutes of early attempts in producing flying boats in the Solent area. Factories in Southampton, Cowes and Hamble were all instrumental in developing the newly formed flying machine into a waterborne amphibian. Film of the first launching at Fairey Aviation at Hamble