Conceived as a transatlantic luxury liner of the skies, the Saunders-Roe Princess represented the pinnacle of flying boat design. Yet only one aircraft ever flew. By the 1950s, the age of jets had ...
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How flying boats disappeared almost overnight

Flying boats once connected continents before long runways existed. The Saunders Roe Princess and Queen represented the peak ...
"For a time, the flying boat was seen as the way of the future. These aircraft, so strange and foreign to the modern mind, once criss-crossed the world and fulfilled essential military roles. In his ...