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Saunders-Roe SR.A/1

Started by Leading Observer, May 25, 2025, 12:04:27 AM

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jcf

What appears to be just another innocent boathouse on the shore of a fjord ...

Dum-dum-daaa.

Leading Observer

Quote from: jcf on May 28, 2025, 03:26:37 PMWhat appears to be just another innocent boathouse on the shore of a fjord ...

Dum-dum-daaa.

To misquote Jaws " You're going to need a bigger boathouse"

Although that does give me an idea to be included in the backstory...
LO


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Rheged

Quote from: jcf on May 28, 2025, 03:26:37 PMWhat appears to be just another innocent boathouse on the shore of a fjord ...

Dum-dum-daaa.

Slight adjustment  "...an innocent Very Wide boathouse..."

It has to accommodate a couple of launches to remove floating debris from the fjord;   we don't want a mishap like that suffered by Eric Brown when he flew this particular design of aircraft  , as mentioned in this extract from :-https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2016/august/royal-navys-incomparable-aviator

Brown's last flight at Farnborough came even closer to disaster, though in a far less dramatic aircraft. The Saunders-Roe SR/A1 was a rare bird—a twin-jet flying-boat fighter. Upon landing, Brown clipped some debris in the water, capsizing the plane and leaving him inverted in the cockpit. He nearly drowned, barely reaching the surface in time for a launch to arrive. Lapsing in and out of consciousness, he finally came around in the hospital, "spouting water like a whale with someone giving me artificial respiration."
"If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you....."
It  means that you read  the instruction sheet