Saunders-Roe Saro P. 192
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 |
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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
- ↑ http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1948/1948%20-%201758.html
- ↑ http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread198736/pg1
Web links
- photos