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 ...

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 ...