SaRo Princess giant seaplane then and now 

Just realised after loving this place for years that the floats retract into the wing tips!! Omg how can i have missed that for so long Lovely plane , would love to have seen it

Nice, and, for once on youtube, the music choice is spot on. Excellent job, thank you.

I often wonder why I keep getting these videos on RC airplanes. This is one of the times I’m glad I did. Very cool my friend.

Spectacular! What an elegant and graceful beast!

Notice on the RC model's takeoff, the left float darn near nails the tug-boat. Beautiful plane, and model. That the model flew so well, speaks for the aerodynamic credibility of the Princess.

It's a flying boat because the fuselage also acts as a hull because it submersed in water,where as a seaplane is an aircraft which has floats attached to allow it to float,the fuselage doesn't enter the water.

Only just found this. It almost brings a tear to my eye. When I was a nipper we moved from Swindon to the Isle of Wight where my Dad, an aircraft engineer, joined Saunders Roe and worked on the Princess. Aviation changed dramatically during it’s development, resulting in the concept being shelved, but what a machine. Sad but inevitable that the three airframes suffered severe corrosion and had to be scrapped…..

I just picked up a 1/350 kit of this. Will put the music from this video on as I build the model. Bravo!

Can you imagine being in one of those countryside homes, hear a noise and see that thing come blasting overhead? So cool.

I remember seeing these mothballed giants from my uncle's cabin cruiser in the early 60's as we left Southampton water for the Solent. My father, an aircraft engineer, knew their history well and was saddened that so magnificent a machine should not have succeeded.

Very impressive model. We'll done!

Great tribute. Outstanding rc aircraft, truly Beautiful..sea planes and trains..allmost entirely gone..damn it!

Mustard did a video on the Princess I recommend that you watch it if you're interested

Nice video, thank you, Very impressive model.

I have ALWAYS loved SeaPlanes. It is a shame that they have been largely phased out.

When I see the old news reels, I'm amazed that these behemoths in reality ever got off the water. Best idea before WW 2, not so much after, what with all of the hard surface runways left behind by the military & the fact that BC of the war, the land based planes just kept getting bigger. & Bigger. Look at them NOW!!

What i would give to see this come back (but with modern engines and amphibious mode with landing gear)

Thanks for a great video. Showing my age but I remember seeing these cocooned at Calshot. Shame they couldn't have converted one into a restaurant or similar.

Completely awesome! Imagine getting on an airplane moored near a major population center only to get off in Petit St. Vincent or some other glamorous place that is inconveniently far from an airstrip.

Video is great - the stylophone reminds of sparky's magic music? The R/C model is mega! Thank you.

It's a real shame that they were not even able to sell a single one of these elegant pieces of aviation history. It would have been interesting to see if they would have eventually made a profit for their owners. The only land plane close to their opulence was the Boeing 377 and it missed their level considerably. I think it would have done well "down under" for trips in the Orient, as far as the United Kingdom and Hawaii. Maybe even place like San Francisco.

I saw one of these landing on Southampton water once and thought it was a Stratocruiser about to crash in the sea but my brother told otherwise absolutely awesome

Just to see the model fly was awesome! Well done.

Great video of an impressive leviathan.

A very sweet and poignant video. Excellent music choices.

Beautiful work and a fine testament to human endeavour

Always wondered how many hours it takes to build a model such as this. How much guts it takes to fly it the first time. Once attended a flying boat R/C competition in California from a large pond near some warehouses. One plane lost its signal and flew into a cement wall. Nothing but pieces. The owner was sick!

So beautiful!

Nice to see one still flying.

Unfortunately that was the only plane of it's kind! It's Britain's Spruce Goose! It was obsolete before it flew and never found it's buyer! Would make an awesome toy for a rich man! A flying yacht!

Awesome RCmodel of an iconic flying boat sadly It was built too late as well as the Hercules Howard Hughes flying boat

Great video.

Great build!

Is "seaplane" the right word? I thought an aircraft the bottom of whose fuselage was a hull on which the aircraft floated was a "flying boat", and a seaplane was one that had floats instead of a wheeled undercarriage and the fuselage of which was somewhat above the water.

Same engine setup as on the Bristol Brabazon double decker...

Mustard?

So beautiful!! the dreamthat was never to be.

Do you know where I can get a hold of one or at least a blueprint so we can recreate it with todays tech?

Where did you get the rc plane

They are huge but still beautiful

G'day, This is an excellent video. The only thing which "gives the game away" during the Ground-to-Air flight-footage, that it's a Model flying in the imagery, was the Gust-Response Times of the Aeroplane...; because a 10-Engined (4x2 + 2 = 6 Airscrews, 4 being Contra-Rotating...!) FLYING BOAT {not a "Seaplane" as the Title misapprehends}..., simply doesn't "twitch & jump about...", like that (!). But the gravest mistake in the Video, in my (humble ?) opinion, was to persist in using Software-induced FAKE-Sepia-Tones, on all the 1940s/'50s stock-footage of the Princess...; though I can indeed see validity in the argurment that maybe 20 or 30 seconds of Sepia-Tones invokes the "Olden Times" cliched emotionsl response, from all the Viewers.... The problem as I see it, is that Sepia-Tones were well obsolete by 1928, all over the British Empire, even for the lowest-budget users of Kodak "Box Brownies, taking Stills...; whereas in the heady dayze of Britain before they realised their Imperial Powers had evaporated (at Suez, in '56) they were using crispy fine-grained Black & White Monochrome, any time they couldn't afford Kodachrome or Technicolour... Just(ifiably ?) sayin', Take it easy, Such is Life... ;-p Ciao !

Contra rotating props? I bet the noise level was off the charts!

This so good.

Oh man, so it shrunk! crazy stuff, weird what time can do, I'd better go and check my 68 Charger.

Always wondered just how much of an issue that rust/corrosion was on the airframes,as these are intended to takeoff/land in or near salt water/oceans?

Much resistance from the water during taking off？

What a wonderful piece of machinery, a pity they ever invented the airliner, Heathrow would be so peaceful now!

How does the size compare to the Spruce Goose?

its criminal that these planes were scrapped

I actually saw these flying boats before they were broken up. The ferry to the Isle of white used to pass quite close. I always felt a sadness that they were cocooned as they were. All in a dull grey, with only the general outline......Perhaps it is better to think of them in their glory days. The last of the breed, the romance period of flying.

¡BELLISSIMA!

Looks like this "monster" had 10 engines?

Notice when you get closer to it. seems smaller.

Cant believe they spend the money to finishing

I saw them moored up on the Solent in the sixties.

can you attach a small dog with goggles to float plane? ty kc

I love the music whats the song

Замечательно!:)...

Here too. 😀

I'm interested in seaplanes but just couldn't watch the video because of the cheesy music! I'll try again later with the sound muted.

you legend. hooooray hoooray

Imagine if the engineering and fabrication resources had of been put into something useful. I guess it kept some talented engineers and workers employed.

Was the first plane Howard Hughes’ “Spruce Goose?”

Looks like a flying whale....be great to see this sort of aircraft in service today.....

It's a shame some of them were not saved for posterity.

Too slow compared to the jets, too fast to enjoy the amenities of a cruise ship, a beautiful solution for a need that no longer existed.

Lindo!!

Only here for the music

Jets were faster and carried more.

Looks less like a princess and more like a baleen whale.

Монстер.

Oh! SUCH DELIGHTFUL MUSIC to step through time with. THANKYOU for the pleasure. Far more enjoyable listening to american morons flapping their mouths talking about which they know zilch. BLOODY ANNOYING RETRDISTANIS

Probably a good flyer but she is not a pretty airplane

This could've been great, really, but your poor choice of (unnecessary!) music completely ruins your video... Just an opinion...

What a rubbish background racket