Saunders-Roe Saro P. 192

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Saunders-Roe (Saro) P. 192
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Type: Passenger flying boat
Design country:

Great Britain

Manufacturer:

Saunders-Roe

Number of pieces:

draft only

The Saunders-Roe Saro P.192 was the design of a flying boat by the British manufacturer Saunders-Roe (Saro).

history

Major Dundas Heenan, chief engineer at the Heenan, Winn & Steel consultancy, who was responsible for some unorthodox designs (e.g. the Planet Satellite, a four-seat light aircraft) in the late 1940s and early 1950s, resigned in the early 1950s behalf of P & O shipping company Saunders-Roe by suggesting approach to build a flying boat, at least 1,000 passengers between the UK and Australia can carry.

The comfort should be comparable to that of an ocean liner and the costs should not be more than seven pence per passenger kilometer. A few years earlier, Saunders-Roe had built what was then the largest flying boat in the world, the Princess , and therefore seemed particularly suitable for this task.

construction

The hull of the flying boat should have five decks and passengers should be accommodated in six-seater compartments with seats that can be converted into beds. The engine nacelles were designed to be accessible from the inside so that engine repairs could also be carried out in flight. Even the failure of six engines should only reduce cruising speed by 14%.

The twelve engines in each wing were arranged well above the water surface to protect them from splashing water. In addition, air should be supplied through inlets on the top of the wings while the flying boat was in the water. In flight, the "normal" air inlets in the wing leading edge should then be opened.

The flight plan to Australia looked like this: take off from Southampton , first stopover in Egypt , then via Karachi , Calcutta , Singapore and Darwin to Sydney in 45 hours. The return flight would take 48 hours and the whole trip should only cost £ 60.

Technical data (calculated or estimated)

Parameter Data
crew seven crew members and 40 cabin stewards
Passengers 1,000 passengers
length 97.00 m (318 ft)

For comparison: the Airbus A380 is 72.7 m long.

span 95.50 m (313 ft)
height 26.80 m (88 ft)
Takeoff weight 681 t (1,500,500 lb)
Cruising speed 720 km / h at an altitude of 9000 m
Service ceiling 12,200 m
Range 4,800 km
Engines 24 × Rolls-Royce Conway jet engines with a thrust of 82.4 kN (18,500 lb) each

See also

literature

  • GR Duval: British Flying Boats and Amphibians 1909-1952 ; Putnam, London 1966.
  • James Gilbert: Most of the time they did ; Swiss publishing house Zurich 1978 (pages 221-223).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1948/1948%20-%201758.html
  2. ↑ http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread198736/pg1

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