Saroe never heard of that name before.

Please give me the voiceover style back I last enjoyed a week ago (Alfa Montreal vid).

Fab vid, the Britz seem to waste resources, look at brexit, years and billions invested just walked away, no wonder the fab workers a so poverty stricken annd depressed, they pay for everything.

Superb contribution. I can't help thinking that the Princess had been inspired by the Blohm & Voss 238.

After WW2, British made number of just stupefyingly ideas and decisions. Building outdated expensive junk designed by government comities. It’s surprise that Brits actually were able to win the war. Maybe it was caused by the victory hangover. Enemies conned drunk British government to sign everything away, including Crown Jewels. Building white elephant herd. - How to Bankrupt a country 101

We have SO much incompetence in our management/design department/leadership in our country over the past 5 decades! It is no wonder why we hardly produce things any more! Absolute disgrace! Saw a lot of it first hand having been in the military/nhs/railways [train driver] now thankfully retired!

Once Euston got rid of steam and electrified I lost interest in visiting there. However one day I found myself there and how quiet it was, especially compared to Paddington’s seemingly constant running of diesel locos (and consequent fumes) and the noise resulting in me taking a train to Neath when I didn’t need to as I could barely hear myself on a public phone and misheard the person in Neath!

My team leader and his wife was in New York in September 2001 and was due to fly home on the 11th. They were actually in the WTC on the 10th, visiting the observation deck. They made it home safely thankfully a few days later, something nearly 3,000 people didn't do. Seeing all those names on the memorial fountains on our visit in October 2023 really hit it home.

I swear that if I see anyone on here commenting with a false bash against Ruairidh for supposedly plagiarizing prior videos on this topic I will put them on report to KZfaq's Moderation Battalion for racist and bullying commentary. Ruairidh is doing us a great service by reminding us of the details of this great aircraft and nobody has the right to cast racist aspersions against him for any reason. Anyone suggesting otherwise shall be ON REPORT!

We really should have saved G-ALUN. What a waste.

A microcosm of Britain, really.

Engineers should be followers not leaders. This like Brabazon, VC10, Concorde and now HS2 are all commercial failures. All intended for premium class passengers who wouldnt pay enough. Americans do the business analysis first for standard class passengers. Hence the huge success of the state subsidised 707 and 747 and other aircraft. If it wont sell. Dont build it. The UK has built for the toffs since the very first railways. And heavily subsidised these luxury toys to avoid embarrassing admissions of failure. Socialism for the rich.

You got thet right< the "bullet appeared in two movies"top secret and melba" i was there 1951/53

"Spoken in Australian "..... please .... one of Rh....... the cunts turning at Max volume....... ffs ❤❤❤❤

princess, whether a car or flying boat, seems to be a code word for failure.

At least BOAC did not insist on square windows.

The fact that offers were made to buy it, shows somebody somewhere didn't want it flying. I wonder who?

@2:25 you did not make mention of the proposed nuclear reactor and nuclear/chemical engine

BOAC and BEA helped destroy the British aircraft industry,

Powerplants an oversight?

It's a shame, but they completely failed to understand the direction that aviation was headed in. They would have been magnificent though.

The grreat days of loco i can rember the big four before the take over i would watch lots of mixe traffic trundleing along the network miss the old days off goods open wagons parcels all together and break wagons on the back from the big four sadly in now my later years i miss it its all container wagons now sometimes you wouldn't get a mix of the big four

waited while the Government dithered.

Bit of a late UK "Spruce Goose".

still all suitably sad and symptomatic of uk government mismanagement of aerospace (think Rotodyne as just one example, and BOACs messing with VC10, Trident etc)

Incredible technology at the time. Shame it was not devised as a land plane from the beginning

Sad

I was a 10+year old on a round-the-island trip on a paddle steamer and saw the Princess take off on her maiden flight. I was told later that she was just supposed to taxi that day but the test pilot said something on the lines of “she just wanted to fly, so I let her.” I wonder if there is anyone else still alive who saw that.

Overcomplicated nonsense!

There is a picture of my late father driving WD 2-8-0 Sir Guy Williams on the Bullit Expres in the recently published book on Longmoor.

Was this larger than the Spruce Goose?

A classic case of new technology replacing the familiar. And, of course, with WW2 leaving hundreds of airfields with concrete runways, the air travel market was never going to bother with flying boats with passengers having to take a journey to the coast just to board one ! The Comet showed the future despite its travails, and flew at over 500 mph, as did the Boeing 707 and others. Speed like this also revolutionised the productivity of airliners, although the ultimate example of this, Concorde, unfortunately failed due to the sonic boom problem.

You should change your channel name. I try to recommend you to friends, but can rarely remember the correct spelling.

Thanks for a very informative video of these last of the giant flying boats.

Imagine a Flying Boat With Jet Engines 😳 😮 4:49

Not only wrong-headed market analysis but the Proteus was a troubled engine. One can only gasp at the development problems of a coupled Proteus. Well done video with tech details on powered controls that I had never seen.

Hi Ruairidh, you should do a video of the history of the Columbine Yard at East Cowes It is probably the most iconic British industrial building, instantly recognisable for the giant Union Jack (the largest in the world apparently) painted on the front to the succession of brilliant but often doomed projects that it has issued forth. Not only was it the birthplace of the Princess but also the first jet propelled flying boat the SR. A/1, the worlds first hovercraft also was built there and launched off that ramp along with its successors the huge Mountbatten cross channel hover ferries to name but a few. SARO was also involved in the Black Knight rocket project and more latterly, now known as GKN, Osborne the sister site to Columbine in East Cowes designs and produces a large proportion of the worlds aircraft winglets. Columbine is still a factory, being the home of Wight Shipyards and produces high quality aluminium boats including the Thames Clippers.

Excellent video!

I'm not for nostalgia nor for endless hype-chasing, just for steady progression. I have a thorough dislike for "what may have been". I prefer to see something like this beautiful aircraft as the closing statement of a generation. If you have to go alone into the endless night, pray that you're allowed to go like this.

As a little boy, I saw the Princess flying over my home. It was a grey day and she was travelling from west to east. Huge...

Look at that dinosaur and visually remove everything below the ‘double fuselage’, dump the boat hull . Then add a sub wing underneath the fuselage containing the main landing gear plus a nose wheel up forward and you have a six engined ‘Hercules’. Then again the Brit’s would probably have insisted that she be a taildragger. Great video. My dad flew Sunderlands out of Pembroke Dock 1944.

When they showed this ship at Farnborough, did they not think: wait, there is no water here. Doh.

Here in Southern Africa, this is by far my favourite domestic airliner - roomy, relatively quiet, smooth.

So sad 💔

National hubris. Dreams of lost empires.

Then along came the mx5 and showed them how to do it properly

It was a seriously pretty thing. Useless, but really nice to look at.

That's "The Best Documentary" that i saw about the SR.45... Very Good Video!!!

one of my earliest memorys is visiting calshot in march 67 and seeing the 2 flying boats covered in snow . eventhough i was only 4 years old my comment to my farther was "but theyve got no engines " pitty they were gone a month later

"Nuclear-Chemical Pratt&Whitney T 57 engine"? "Unit Shield General Electric Reactor"? Which of these behemoths did they envision being powered by that? EDIT: ah, never mind, 18:09 answers that.