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Saunders Roe SR-45 Princess Uploaded

PutPut

PutPut

Charter Member 2014
I uploaded the "Princess" to Simviation and flightsim earlier today. It should show at these sites tomorrow. The SR-45 first flew in 1952 and was one of the largest flying boats ever made. It was powered with 10 Proteus turbine engines geared to combinations of single and double contra rotating propellers. I included a custom XML gauge by Warwick Carter that turns the turbine exhaust on and off at 80% throttle. It has the default factory livery and the proposed BOAC paint job. It has .dds textures and a specular shine. The VC has animated flight controls and working flight gauges. I did NOT model all the gauges for 10 engines ganged to the 4 the simulator allows, so the flight engineer station is a picture. It has reverse thrust which is recommended on landing as this boat has a lot of momentum and will float forever.

Cheers, Paul
 
Thank you Paul, a beautiful model of a horrible plane, will fly it as soon as I download it....these old jobs sure come handy for neat Adventure flights.....
 
Hey Paul,

Well done Sir! What a huge plane those were. Excellent work on the hull and wings near the engines.

:ernae: :medals: :ernae:


Bill
 
This was a huge aircraft! Thanks Paul:engel016: I hope you don't mind but I added a different prop texture; just personal preference.

sr45-1.jpg


sr45-2.jpg
 
Beautiful Paul, I luv the flying boats! :applause:

If I may be so bold, any chance of you turning your hand to modelling a Short Sunderland?
 
Hi Guys,
Awesome aircraft, Never heard of these before so a quick google/youtube and here's the result some old news film of these monsters. Timm

BW news footage
 
Roger said:
This was a huge aircraft! Thanks Paul:engel016: I hope you don't mind but I added a different prop texture; just personal preference.
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What different texture for the prop, please? Could you zip it for download? Here in the forum or the library?

thanks
 
The thought occurred to me I haven't flown around NYC since I got FSX. All my flying has been on the west coast or in the bush country. Anyway, this is where the Princess was supposed to be able to fly.

Paul
 
Tweek said:
I don't suppose this comes with sounds, or if there's any sounds for the Bristol-Siddeley Proteus? In my opinion, the best thing about the aircraft is the way it sounds:

I included the sounds from a TU-114 which had similar thrust engines.

Paul
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This looks awesome but can someone please tell me how you can start a free flight on water in FSX?

Thanks

DaveQ
 
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