FS2002/FS2004 Saunders Roe SR-A1. The SR-A1 was the world’s first jet-powered flying boat. It had come into being as a result of Air Ministry Specification E.6/44, a wartime requirement for a high-speed fighter capable of operating from coastal waters in the Pacific theatre. Outwardly conventional in its appearance, the SR-A1 nevertheless embodied a number of features designed to result in an aerodynamically clean exterior with the minimum of drag-producing protrusions. By Kazunori Ito. 1,5 Mb
