Saunders-Roe Princess

A procedural model built in Blender from the type’s published dimensions, painted as G-ALUN, the Saunders-Roe SR.45 Princess, the only Princess to fly, standing on its beaching gear on the slipway at East Cowes as photographed in 1953–54: the largest all-metal flying boat ever built, with a pressurised double-bubble hull on a two-step planing bottom, a 219 ft 6 in wing carrying ten Bristol Proteus turboprops in six nacelles (four coupled pairs driving contra-rotating propellers and a single engine in each outer nacelle), wing-tip floats retracted to form the wing tips, and a tall fin above a dihedral tailplane: bare aluminium hull sides, wings and nacelles, a white roof and white fin and rudder, a dark blue cheat line through the upper-deck windows with a white pinstripe below it, a grey planing bottom, a Union flag high on the fin with ‘G-ALUN’ in black below it and ‘G-ALUN’ under the port wing (no Princess survives; the shape was taken from a published three-view scaled to the published span, length and height and checked against some 20 photographs of G-ALUN; the colour of the planing bottom is inferred from black-and-white photographs, the beaching gear’s wheel sizes are estimated, and a small unreadable marking near the bow is left off). Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom · all 297 models · download .glb (1.8 MB) · Plate 208 in The Hangar