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:engel016:

[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!:applause::applause:

[Lionheart]

Hey Paul,

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

:ernae: :medals: :ernae:


Bill

[hey_moe]

Paul, outstanding job:ernae:

[Roger]

This was a huge aircraft! Thanks Paul:engel016: I hope you don't mind but I added a different prop texture; just personal preference.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y203/rogera/sr45-1.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y203/rogera/sr45-2.jpg

[Pips]

Beautiful Paul, I luv the flying boats! :applause:

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 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AV1eUeo27tc)

[wilycoyote4]

This was a huge aircraft! Thanks Paul:engel016: 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:engel016:

:bump:...

[wilycoyote4]

Okay here it is...
:medals::applause:thanks:guinness:

[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. :medals:

[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=YhFzket3SM4&feature=PlayList&p=EEE5937E8ADA3BE1&playnext=1&playnext_from=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:icon_lol:

[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.

[DaveQ]

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

Thanks

DaveQ

Thanks to all - will look for MoCats scenery and give that a go. Meanwhile slew works for me!

DaveQ

[Seahawk72s]

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

I have tried using replacement turoprop and older prop engine gauges for replacement on the 2D panel but am having limited success.
I don't see that the default engine gauges work, is there something I'm doing wrong..?

[Seahawk72s]

Any recommendations to replace the air file for this monster..? (looking for the engine gauges to work) (I know little about editing the air file)

[mcanx]

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=38351&stc=1The reason engine gauges are not working is that they used piston engine instead of turbo prop. I configured the panel to use turbo gauges. Overwrite original panel.cfg with this one. You can leave cab file in the panel folder or copy it to gauge folder. Your preference. Robert

[Seahawk72s]

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/attachment.php?attachmentid=38351&stc=1The reason engine gauges are not working is that they used piston engine instead of turbo prop. I configured the panel to use turbo gauges. Overwrite original panel.cfg with this one. You can leave cab file in the panel folder or copy it to gauge folder. Your preference. Robert


Thank you..! Nice gauges, good looking panel.

[Seahawk72s]

I'm looking for detailed pictures of the cockpit and flight engineers station for the SR-45.
I've combed thru Google and seen the out of focus cockpit shots. I have the Saunders Roe PR info
while having nice pictures of her being built and flown, nothing that clearly shows the pilots panel.
If you know of any pictures or books it would be information greatly appreciated.

[srgalahad]

I'm looking for detailed pictures of the cockpit and flight engineers station for the SR-45.
I've combed thru Google and seen the out of focus cockpit shots. I have the Saunders Roe PR info
while having nice pictures of her being built and flown, nothing that clearly shows the pilots panel.
If you know of any pictures or books it would be information greatly appreciated.

I did a bunch of research for Paul when he was building the model and yes, it is hard to find good info with the normal searches. Here are links to the best of what we had:

Smiths' Instruments advertisement from 1952
1952 | 2934 | Flight Archive (http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1952/1952%20-%202934.html?search=princess%20cockpit)

Cut-away drawings of the Princess. Note that the FE station is labeled as "Flight Engineers" (plural) and shows two seats. Six crew- 2 pilots, Nav, RO, 2 FE
1952 | 2837 | Flight Archive (http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1952/1952%20-%202837.html)
1952 | 2843 | Flight Archive
(http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1952/1952%20-%202843.html)1952 | 2844 | Flight Archive (http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1952/1952%20-%202844.html)
(http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1952/1952%20-%202843.html)
On this page you will find the best (some not great) pictures of many details including the various panels and systems. Scroll through and click on the thumbnails for larger images.
http://www.seawings.co.uk/saroprinwalk.htm

(http://www.seawings.co.uk/saroprinwalk.htm)
Edit - forgot one - Popular Science overview including one view of a mock-up of the cockpit
https://books.google.ca/books?id=nikDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA138&dq=popular+science+September+1949+%22produce+a+giv en%22&hl=en&ei=bavjTJX5DcajnAet9O3qDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=popular%20science%20September%201949%20%22produc e%20a%20given%22&f=true

There are a bunch of flight items that need some help (and further research)... drag/thrust, flaps, probably tuning of contact/scrape points, but in other ways it's a fun model that flies as ponderously as you'd expect for such a monster.

Rob

[Seahawk72s]

I did a bunch of research for Paul when he was building the model and yes, it is hard to find good info with the normal searches. Here are links to the best of what we had:

Smiths' Instruments advertisement from 1952
1952 | 2934 | Flight Archive (http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1952/1952%20-%202934.html?search=princess%20cockpit)

Cut-away drawings of the Princess. Note that the FE station is labeled as "Flight Engineers" (plural) and shows two seats. Six crew- 2 pilots, Nav, RO, 2 FE
1952 | 2837 | Flight Archive (http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1952/1952%20-%202837.html)
1952 | 2843 | Flight Archive
(http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1952/1952%20-%202843.html)1952 | 2844 | Flight Archive (http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1952/1952%20-%202844.html)
(http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1952/1952%20-%202843.html)
On this page you will find the best (some not great) pictures of many details including the various panels and systems. Scroll through and click on the thumbnails for larger images.
http://www.seawings.co.uk/saroprinwalk.htm

(http://www.seawings.co.uk/saroprinwalk.htm)
Edit - forgot one - Popular Science overview including one view of a mock-up of the cockpit
https://books.google.ca/books?id=nikDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA138&dq=popular+science+September+1949+%22produce+a+giv en%22&hl=en&ei=bavjTJX5DcajnAet9O3qDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=popular%20science%20September%201949%20%22produc e%20a%20given%22&f=true

There are a bunch of flight items that need some help (and further research)... drag/thrust, flaps, probably tuning of contact/scrape points, but in other ways it's a fun model that flies as ponderously as you'd expect for such a monster.

Rob




Hi Rob,
What an incredible wealth of information...! The instrumentation pics are all that I could hope for. The pictures portray an historical look an aeronautical engineering for that time period
that is priceless. Please accept my thanks for sharing these resources.

Regards,
Tony

[tommieboy]

Available in the Avsim Library now!

Search for the following file:

saunders_roe_princess_boac_v2.0.zip

A redo of the default BOAC paint scheme in a slightly higher texture resolution. The graphics around the nose had some texture mapping limitations so I could not recreate the historically correct graphics to my satisfaction. Still I think it's a nice addition to this aircraft.

Tommy

http://www.fsfiles.org/flightsimshotsv2/images/2016/06/03/SR45_982.jpg

http://www.fsfiles.org/flightsimshotsv2/images/2016/06/03/SR45_981.jpg

http://www.fsfiles.org/flightsimshotsv2/images/2016/06/03/SR45_980.jpg

http://www.fsfiles.org/flightsimshotsv2/images/2016/06/03/SR45_979.jpg

[tommieboy]

If you want a beefier sound set, search the internet for the following file:

Tu-95_Sound.zip

It's for the Russian Bear bomber, but I tend to use it for most of my "heavy" multi-engine turbo props.

Tommy

[Seahawk72s]

Nicely done on the repaint, thanks..!

[tommieboy]

Nicely done on the repaint, thanks..!

Thanks for the kind words. Maybe sometime later on down the road (this year) I'll find some time to do a update of the all metal version too.

Tommy

[tommieboy]

Available in the Avsim Library now!

Search for the following file:

saunders_roe_princess_boac_v2.0_white.zip

Similar to the previously released repaint noted above, but with white color accents.

Tommy

[Seahawk72s]

Available in the Avsim Library now!

Search for the following file:

saunders_roe_princess_boac_v2.0_white.zip

Similar to the previously released repaint noted above, but with white color accents.

Tommy


Nice work..!