Saunders Roe Queen

[sly bough]

As per my other suggestions already hinted, I'm simping for old flying boats and interwar/early afterwar designs, so why not the Saunders Roe Queen?

The Queen was designed by Saunders Roe and "surprisingly" never entered service, or anything other than sketches. It was designed to be a response to the increase in jetliners, flying Europe-America.

Saunders Roe previously tried to maintain the legacy of flying ships with the Princess, which were at least built but ultimately failed when building only 3 planes cost almost 4x the originally planned costs. Only one ever flew and racked up almost 100 flighthours in tests.

The flying ships failed, due to being slower than almost all jets and being very expensive to maintain. The only upside were, that they could land anywhere with water and could transport more people at once, which cancelled itself out with the way slower speed. That's why the Queen was supposed to be a jet.

The Queen was designed with an unholy 24 jet engines in it's wings to even take off from the water and was intended to carry 1000 passengers ||(more than my home town btw)|| plus almost 50 crew. It was intended to be an oceanliner, but with the speed of a "modern" jet.

Due to everyone (except Saunders Roe) understanding that this was just copium because their beloved flying ships were starting to get out off style, the planning was never funded.

Since the Princes is already in the game and the Duchess is "planned", why not get the full family?

That was my autistic yapping session, pls add.
Thank you.

Edit:
Stats blatantly copied and shortened from Wikipedia:
General characteristics:
Crew: 7 crew and 40 cabin stewards
Capacity: 1,000 passengers
Length: 97 m
Wingspan: 95 m
Height: 16.99 m
Wing area: 466.3 m²
Max takeoff weight: 680,615 kg
Powerplant: 24 × Rolls-Royce Conway turbofan engines, 18,500 lbf (82 kN) thrust each

Performance:
Cruise speed: 720 km/h at 9,000 m
Range: 4,800 km
Service ceiling: 12,200 m absolute

It was big enough for an internal restaurant with a kitchen and a promenade btw...

[echo dome]

you have a scale model for this?

or blueprints?

i can try to find some but

i doubt ill get much

[sly bough]

The drawings are the most you can get out off copius engineers

[echo dome]

oof uhhh

you need blueprints and stuff twin

[sly bough]

Let me try to find something usable

[echo dome]

ok

[sly bough]

The best I could find

[echo dome]

any scale models?

wind tunnel maybe?

[sly bough]

There were no models

[echo dome]

you need one of them too

[sly bough]

This was just a very sad attempt to get funding

[echo dome]

im sorry to say but devs aint gonna accept

[sly bough]

This was on the same level as what the germans were designing late war

[echo dome]

oof

then the devs ESPECIALLY wont like it

[sly bough]

Just ungodly amounts of copium and other substances and get it on paper until you sober up

Trust

[echo dome]

whatever you say man

but those suggestion cynics, the really annoying ones, are gonna eat this up

in a bad way

[sly bough]

I'm basically on the same levels of copium as the engineers

[echo dome]

ok

[shy flicker]

was ingame briefly
on trello
may come back later afaik

[sly bough]

I call that a success

On what trello tho

[shy flicker]

#trello-and-database

[sly bough]

The planned or denied one?

[shy flicker]

suggestions trello

i forgor

if it gets remodelled itl likely get added back

but demand for it is low

[sly bough]

Still a success in my book

Anything for flying ships

[hybrid galleon]

Shin meiwa GS but original

[limpid heart]

Was gonna say that but i thought it was removed permanently?

[shy flicker]

if the Queen is removed permanently with no chance of readdition thousands will be angered

[fast scaffold]

“Thousands will be angered”
The like 250-300 active players: ….

[feral creek]

Dank is AFK: eep - an hour ago

[fast scaffold]

[molten orchid]

Stupid question. Ain't this just the Shin Meiwa but engines are funnier and the tail v shaped

[limpid heart]

Im waiting for him to put up another nonsensical argument like he did with the JFK Clarence argument once he wakes up

[fast scaffold]

…

I wasn’t being serious

[hybrid galleon]

It's too realistic

[limpid heart]

No i mean im taking whatever Dank says that "represents the Aero community in any & every way" with a grain of salt

[hybrid galleon]

Hello I'm john arro comuty

[shy flicker]

The statement was a hyperbole but that doesnt change the validity

-# also not trying to argue anyways

[shy flicker]

[fast scaffold]

Dw Dank, I would be upset

[shy flicker]

Nah that isn’t the goal lol
But like...
-# (ik this is old but still)
#vehicle-suggestions message

[jovial shore]

https://trello.com/c/DVEbpDkD/319-saunders-roe-p192-queen

Trello

Saunders Roe P.192 Queen

• Originally made for public usage, but never released.
• Engines were never made, so gigantic jet engines were added instead.
• Removed from the game due to its unfinishedness.

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** Made by: IsurusOxyrinchus**

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Rejected

[shy flicker]

It was on the under consideration for like 3 years

Why is it rejected now

[jovial shore]

nah it wasnt

it was in rejected since uhh early 2023

or earlier

[gritty pier]

Why was this rejected though?

[jovial shore]

too big + developers thought that it had no engines

tho it has like 20 engines placed in its wings

[shy flicker]

It wasnt labelled as rejected prior to the page being revamped

[jovial shore]

nah it was

it was either halted or rejected

[shy flicker]

IIRC, It was at the bottom of jet engine suggestions with “Halted”

Now it’s in a different spot

Doesn’t deserve to be rejected but that’s just me

[quaint junco]

https://trello.com/c/DVEbpDkD

Trello

Saunders Roe P.192 Queen

• Originally made for public usage, but never released.
• Engines were never made, so gigantic jet engines were added instead.
• Removed from the game due to its unfinishedness.

‌

** Made by: IsurusOxyrinchus**

Labels

Rejected

The creacher

[shy flicker]

[limpid heart]

But on a serious note since i fancy big planes