By: wieesso - 13th May 2013 at 20:01
Great! Love to see it! And a year later 🙁
http://www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1401671/
By: Matty - 18th August 2012 at 02:40
I can’t remember if I posted this link already. NASA certainly gave the Princess some serious consideration:
By: alertken - 17th August 2012 at 19:10
In 1945 Coronado seemed the way in MR, Boeing 314 in long-haul commercial. UK issued both a civil and an MR Spec. Award to Saro, 5/46, was for R&D for both applications, and for 3-off for BSAAC, whose routes through Bermuda were on/over water. In 1948 the RAF MR Requirement became for 80, won by Saro P.162. On 30/7/49 BSAAC faded into BOAC, who cared little for S.America; elsewhere, enamoured of their Canadian/US landplanes, they ceased splashing, 10/11/50. Work dribbled on, on MR until 1955, when RAF judged Shackleton would do anything that needed to be done (an MR4 variant was mooted, with Napier Nomad long endurance compound/diesel).
Latecoere 631 and Martin Mars suffered similarly. It was landplane efficiency, more than pouring of concrete, that did for big hulls.
By: forester - 2nd May 2007 at 20:26
The flying boats had definately gone from Cowes by 1967, we stayed at the youth hostel there in August 67 and 68 and took the ferry from West to East Cowes several times.
I missed a trip with a bunch of aeronautics students to see the Princesses broken up. They all brought souvenirs back so there’s probably quite a lot of parts still around.
Google says it was July ’67 and I think that’s probably correct.
By: Canberra man - 2nd May 2007 at 16:45
Princess
Hi.
I’ve just entered Saunders Roe Princess flying boat in ‘search’ and got a whole lot of info’
Canberra man
By: Fleet Shadower - 2nd May 2007 at 16:24
Princess Footage
That footage has reduced me to tears. What a beautiful aeroplane. They (or at least one) should have been given to a museum. What a B****Y waste. I would love to see a full size flying replica, but no doubt would be too expensive to build. Ah well…
By: painter - 27th December 2006 at 17:00
Kind words Pelican, thank you very much.
The Princess drawing has been finished over Christmas and now I’m about to start to prepare the paintings surface. I shall post my progress with it sometime in the new year.
Cheers to you all 🙂
By: pelican - 22nd December 2006 at 17:42
Fantastic!
Well done Paul it looks great. I purchased one of your prints a few years ago so was pleased to see your latest work. My farther remembers the Princess on it’s first flight-can’t wait to see your take on it.
Keep up the good work.
By: painter - 22nd December 2006 at 17:23
Princess / Jet boat
Hi people!
I have been working away on my Princess flying Boat project recently. And for all those people who gave me encouragment and requested an update of the project here is the latest photo of the work.
The first work shows the SRA/1 jet boat-this amazing machine caught my imagination during the research for the project and due to the amazing response I got from people on this forum the work has expanded in to 2 paintings. The second painting ( to follow) will be of the Princess flying boat itself on a take off run but is still at the drawing stage.
Cheers
Paul
By: painter - 19th August 2006 at 10:12
Fantastic!
What would I do without the Internet! You guys are great, thanks for all the info this is all interesting stuff and it’s all building up towards a good basis for a painting. Thanks “STORMBIRD 262” that old thread has some great pictures on it. I’m going to head back down to the Solent to do some more research and try to speak to a few guys who worked on her. Cheers “7 Cyllinder man” – The Saunders-Roe Apprentice web site will prove to be a great resource although the photo archive still doesn’t seam to be working yet. Anyway I’m off to spend the weekend at my drawing board!.
Thanks again Gentlemen.
By: 25deg south - 19th August 2006 at 09:09
Shame on you all :p
Re Dick Stratton; A great man who gives a first class lecture. He taught many of us in the RAFGSA ‘practical engineering’ . 🙂
I wonder how many realised it was the same guy? .The penny didn’t drop with me for years.
By: 7 cylinder man - 19th August 2006 at 08:44
Shame on you all :p
http://www.saroapprentices.co.uk/links.html
also
http://www.saundersroearchives.com/ (although this link was not working when I last tried it)
Re Dick Stratton; A great man who gives a first class lecture. He taught many of us in the RAFGSA ‘practical engineering’ . 🙂
By: Newforest - 19th August 2006 at 08:16
Hi Phil, great news about the Princess thread, do you want to share the link with us? :diablo:
By: Pete Truman - 19th August 2006 at 08:16
The flying boats had definately gone from Cowes by 1967, we stayed at the youth hostel there in August 67 and 68 and took the ferry from West to East Cowes several times. This passes close to the Hovercraft works and slipways and I have some pictures taken at the time, but only of new hovercraft, I’m sure that had the hulk of a Princess been still lurking, then I would have snapped it.
Mind you, I did spot a Prince, it was Cowes Regatta and we wandered onto a small quay and bumped into HRH Prince Philip and who I presumed was Uffa Fox, trying to get their dinghy out of the water, no security men around in those days to chase us off.
By: STORMBIRD262 - 19th August 2006 at 06:02
Dragged up a Princess thread for ya Paul mate!
I think you will like it, Ciao Phil
By: ALBERT ROSS - 18th August 2006 at 21:15
April 1st has gone! They were never at Poole, only Cowes and Calshot. 🙂
..well I was only small!! Must have been Calshot, then? Could have sworn they were at Poole :confused:
By: Newforest - 18th August 2006 at 20:44
When were the two Princesses moved from Calshot to Poole? As a small boy, I remember seeing then cocooned whilst standing on Poole harbour quayside.
April 1st has gone! They were never at Poole, only Cowes and Calshot. 🙂
By: ALBERT ROSS - 18th August 2006 at 20:17
When were the two Princesses moved from Calshot to Poole? As a small boy, I remember seeing then cocooned whilst standing on Poole harbour quayside.
By: Newforest - 18th August 2006 at 16:41
The Princesses succumbed to the torch in the 60’s, not able to locate the exact time of death at the moment and the instrument panel appeared at Cockptfest in 2003 so that had been dormant for almost twenty years.
By: Pete Truman - 18th August 2006 at 16:41
When did the last vestige of Princess Flying Boat succumb to the scrap-man’s pot?
I have a vague recall of seeing what I think was the/a fuselage when making a crossing to the I.O.W. in the summer of 1963. It would have been at the crossing point used by rail passengers from London.
Ringing any bells with anybody?
Mark
You would only have seen anything if taking the ferry from Southampton to the IOW, the main route from London Waterloo would have arrived at Portsmouth Harbour station and connected from the jetty there to Ryde, you would have seen nowt of Calshot, however, if my memory serves me well, you may have been lucky enough to have sailed on one of the paddle steamers still operating at the time, unless you fancied a good walk to Clarence Pier and travelled on one of Mr Cockerills finest inventions.
Also, sigh, on reaching the other end, you would have had to travel on either the unique petrol driven tram along Ryde Pier or caught the last surviving O2 driven steam train via all stations to Ventnor.
Anyone have a time machine going cheap, the nostalgia has got to me.
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