Saro SR-A/1: the British Flying Boat Jet Fighter That Even Had the U.S. Intrigued
16 Aug 2022, 19:30 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / In truth, Saro had been working on the concept for a twin-engine, jet-powered flying boat since at least 1943 under Air Ministry specification E.6/44.
Saro Lerwick: the Infernally Awful Polar Opposite of the American Catalina
12 Aug 2022, 19:46 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / To pile on to its bad points, the airframe was so gosh darn heavy that it couldn't sustain level flight if one of the engines failed