Once symbols of luxury and engineering ambition, flying boats like the colossal Saunders-Roe Princess vanished almost overnight. Designed to bridge oceans in the jet age, the Princess was caught in a ...
Conceived as a transatlantic luxury liner of the skies, the Saunders-Roe Princess represented the pinnacle of flying boat design. Yet only one aircraft ever flew. By the 1950s, the age of jets had ...