Saunders-Roe SR.45 Princess (Plastic model) - HobbySearch Military Model Store

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-Introducing a completely new mold injection kit 1/350 Saunders Law SR.45 Princess from the Arsenal model group in Ukraine.
-Although it is a small scale of 1/350, it will be about 120mm long and 191mm wide when completed.
-The kit comes with etched parts and decals.

-The Saunders Row SR.45 Princess is a long-range passenger flying boat produced by the British company Saunders Row.
-At that time it was an ambitious design with a revolutionary large turboprop engine, a two-story fuselage and a retractable float, but in the 1950s when the aircraft was born, passenger flying boats Already out of date, the development plan was canceled after three prototypes were built.
-The princess has 10 Bristol Proteus turboprop engines, 4 inner reversing propellers with 2 engines each driving one axis, and 2 outer ones driving a single propeller. did.
-Due to this, it was planned to fly between England and New York at a cruising speed of 580 km / h with 105 passengers.
-The prototype machine number [G-ALUN] first flew on August 22, 1952, and the other two ([G-ALUO] and [G-ALUP]) were partially manufactured All three were dismantled in the 1960s.
-The Princess is the largest all-metal flying boat in history, measuring 42.1m long and 66.9m wide.

Item Size/Weight : 24 x 15.6 x 4.2 cm / 98g