Saunders Roe SR-45 Princess Uploaded

[PutPut]

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

[Roger]

Thank you Paul. It's the same age as me

[MCDesigns]

Thanks Paul!! :ernae::ernae:

[gera]

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.....

[foreigndevil]

Wonderful! Thanks!

[Lionheart]

Hey Paul,

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

:ernae: :ernae:


Bill

[hey_moe]

Paul, outstanding job:ernae:

[Roger]

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

[Pips]

Beautiful Paul, I luv the flying boats!

If I may be so bold, any chance of you turning your hand to modelling a Short Sunderland?

[Timm]

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

[wilycoyote4]

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

What different texture for the prop, please? Could you zip it for download? Here in the forum or the library?

thanks

[Roger]

What different texture for the prop, please? Could you zip it for download? Here in the forum or the library?

thanks

Okay here it is...

[Railrunner130]

Many thanks to Paul and Roger!!

:ernae:

[Panther_99FS]

Thank you Paul. It's the same age as me

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[wilycoyote4]

Okay here it is...

thanks

[PutPut]

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

[wilycoyote4]

Thanks again for the props. This is one big flying boat. Aircraft history project, too.

[Tweek]

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:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhFzk...rom=PL&index=2

[PutPut]

[QUOTE=Tweek;246815]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

[DaveQ]

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

Thanks

DaveQ

[Roger]

Dave,
Create a flight close to where you want your water take-off and slew there (might be a bit of a bumpy ride, lol!). Then save your flight as whatever you want to call it and load it (from the load menu) next time you want to fly from there.

[DaveQ]

Dave,
Create a flight close to where you want your water take-off and slew there (might be a bit of a bumpy ride, lol!). Then save your flight as whatever you want to call it and load it (from the load menu) next time you want to fly from there.

Thanks Roger - I'll give it a go!

DaveQ

[wilycoyote4]

Some coastal cities have "water seaplane runways" in the drop-down menu but these water runways may not ne long enough and you may have to taxi to open sea for a takeoff run.

[casey jones]

Will there be aFS9 version?

Cheers

Casey

[CG_1976]

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

Thanks

DaveQ

Dave, have you tried MoCats Caribbean Seaplanes and Lands Ends series? Lots of Seaplane landing scenery fron Dinar Key, Fl New york, Chicago are some examples within his scenery.