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Saunders Roe SR.45 Princess BOAC British Overseas Airways Corporation

86.0k Annedzsrue  4.6 years ago

The Sa-Ro Princess in BOAC colours

Overnight flight

In the Cockpit

Controls

AG3...................Moor back astern
AG5...................Maintain heading
Landing Gear...Tip Floats and Landing Lights
VTOL.................Flaps
Trim..................Trim

This SaRo Princess features

-BOAC livery 1950
-Interior cockpit
-functional instruments
-moor back astern
-Contrarotating Propellers

Note

Taking off is tricky since you are captaining a flying boat for goodness' sake, before throttling up, set the trim to 50% below the centre of the trim slider, after which start throttling up to 100%, NEVER let the bow of the boat to lower down, keep the boat level with the horizon, once it stops accelerating or reaches 114kts (210km/h, for you land sailors) pitch up, never let the speed drop below 96kts (180km/h), keep the boat steady and once the hull is no longer in contact with the water, immediately set the trim to 0% centre and level the boat. Its max speed is tested at 260kts (500km/h) and stall speed of 83kts (155km/h) with full trim support. Landing is straight forward, just land it like any other plane, bows up, stern down, and cut throttle at contact.

Honestly, the largest concern on this project is not the awkward fuselage shape thanks to the experiences gained from the Beluga Project and the 238 Project, but rather the playability of it, if made too realistic, taking off is more than just a song and dance routine with careful orchestration, and careful engine tuning so its strong enough to take off but weak enough to not pull a Space Shuttle maneuver. I am glad that in just six days, the Princess is already seaworthy and airworthy, Sub-assembling all duplicate parts really helped, the cockpit panel has been used numerous times, and serviced all the projects after the A330 project, so to reduce and save time, and making ok cockpits.

After seeing the Comet Project flop in a spectacular fashion, I fear that any British Plane I build under any British Airline Colours would fail in a similar and blinding fashion, to combat this, at the same time built three aircraft in the week and since the majority of the parts are from other projects, its fast to build. Now the only thing to do is the livery.

Spotlights

General Characteristics

  • Successors 4 airplane(s) +63 bonus
  • Created On Windows
  • Wingspan 211.6ft (64.5m)
  • Length 144.3ft (44.0m)
  • Height 55.5ft (16.9m)
  • Empty Weight N/A
  • Loaded Weight 141,944lbs (64,385kg)

Performance

  • Power/Weight Ratio 0.474
  • Horse Power/Weight Ratio 0.172
  • Wing Loading 20.9lbs/ft2 (102.1kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 6,787.1ft2 (630.5m2)
  • Drag Points 68253

Parts

  • Number of Parts 580
  • Control Surfaces 5
  • Performance Cost 2,219
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    18.0k cyon

    Moor back astern is a term similar to pushback while on gate, its literally means to reverse while attached to a mooring or a dock

    9 months ago
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    What's moor back astern? Seems not happend anything when I press AG3

    1.2 years ago
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    1,299 PZLAgencies

    What is moor back estern

    +1 1.8 years ago
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    3,500 AWACSgoddess

    @herosword13033 my iPhone XR can run this extremely cleanly at high quality settings

    2.0 years ago
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    @Annedzsrue a mustard fan i can see you´re a man of culture

    +1 2.6 years ago
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    Big plane, not as big as my ex tho

    +1 3.3 years ago
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    Any for mobile?

    3.5 years ago
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    Very beatifull plane

    3.8 years ago
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    590 cheeki

    @Plooperman his BV 238

    3.8 years ago
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    What's that plane in the fourth picture? It looks nice

    4.3 years ago
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    That nose😂😂 nice plane tho.

    4.5 years ago
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    This was in a my little pony episode but i forgot which one

    4.6 years ago
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    I tried to land it on land and because of physics, I stood on the nose for a second lol

    4.6 years ago
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    13.7k FlyingHueman

    Glad to see this beautiful bird around! That's a (rather sadly) rare one.

    4.6 years ago
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    @jelybaca
    How would you feel about making an ekranoplan?

    4.6 years ago
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    23.7k FeatherWing

    @jelybaca
    Mustard, the Youtube channel...
    Made a Video on this aircraft

    +2 4.6 years ago
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    86.0k Annedzsrue

    @ND40X no this is BOAC

    +1 4.6 years ago
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    23.7k FeatherWing

    Very Impressive.
    And Mustard has struck again.

    +1 4.6 years ago
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    13.9k ChrisPy

    @jelybaca wack

    4.6 years ago
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    20.3k MAINE

    That's a HUGE B!T(H!!!

    +1 4.6 years ago
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    The most beautiful bird that ever swam.

    4.6 years ago
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    86.0k Annedzsrue

    @ChisP, I use the DesignerSuite mod over the built in one, just like any blueprint, prompt the designer suite tab on ortho and instead of blueprints, open view with the custom screen shots, keep the ortho view on when sharing amd just align the camera with the picture.

    4.6 years ago
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    86.0k Annedzsrue

    @Tang0five Oh itd be the dream to live in BC, sadly no. I live in the heartland of Canada, where its ran over by a drug crisis and general ghetto aura. Though we have polar bears so thats something.

    +1 4.6 years ago
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    53.2k Tang0five

    That sun set a long time ago my friend. Sometimes I think I was born in the wrong century. Still, BC eh...? Got to be a great place to live! @jelybaca

    4.6 years ago
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    86.0k Annedzsrue

    @Tang0five A Pan-Am livery would pan out the same, Its still a flying boat at the end of the day, or in the commonwealth 21:00 hours, because the day never ends.

    I suspect you are of UK citisen, if so, please tell the Queen to dissolve the commonwealth so the sun can finally sink at the shorelines of British Columbia, thank you.

    4.6 years ago
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