Описание
Страна : Великобритания
Год : 1957
(проект)
Фотографии
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Air-Britain Archive 1992-02
Keith Cruttenden has uncovered a newspaper cutting dated 10.11.57 with the headline World's Biggest - and it's British which apparently did not come from page three but referred to "the largest airliner ever conceived - three times the size of the giant Brabazon. It has been designed by a British engineering firm." The company was named as Saben Hart & Ptnrs who would build the 350 ft span aircraft with dimpled steel sheets but no windows, the passengers looking outside through remote control TV. Power was to be pure jets with a top speed of 650 mph but a freighter version was also proposed with 470 ft span, eight turboprops and a speed of 500 mph. The photo may not reproduce well but shows a flying-boat style hull. Does anyone know anything more about this project?
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Air-Britain Archive 1992-03
The Saben-Hart flying boats brought a response from Peter Green. The consulting engineers put forward their proposals while studying long-term freighter requirements. No detailed design work was done, nor consideration given to the ground (water) handling facilities required by such large aircraft. This drawings is the 470 ft span turbo-prop freighter with a proposed gross weight of 3,000,000 lb, 500 mph cruise and a ton/mile operating cost of 2.75d over 2,000 miles.
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Air-Britain Archive 1992-03
The 325 or 353 ft span passenger version in which 606 passengers would cruise at 660 mph for 2d per seat/mile. A 1800 passenger version of the freighter was also proposed. The time however was not right for a relaunch of flying boat principles.
