Bréguet Br.978A crescent-wing jet airliner project......

[Caravellarella]

Dear Boys and Girls, here is an article in French describing the Bréguet Br.978A jet airliner which remained a "project". It was one of the submissions to the specification that resulted in production of the Sud-Est SE.210 Caravelle. The article seems to have been intended to show that France had not been left behind in the research into crescent-wing configurations and was published alongside an article on the Handley-Page Victor......

The article comes from the 17th January 1953 issue of Les Ailes......

Jemiba has much better pictures of the Bréguet Br.978 designs......

Terry (Caravellarella)

 

[toura]

Some time ago Jemiba post 3views of each studie

 

[Caravellarella]

Some time ago Jemiba post 3views of each studie

Yes, thank you Toura. Jemiba did excellent drawings of the Bréguet Br.978 "projects" some time ago here

http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,4926.msg38998.html#msg38998

in a topic about Sud Caravelle (?) "projects" (Jemiba, can you put your drawings here where they belong please?)......

Terry (Caravellarella)

 

[Jemiba]

can you put your drawings here where they belong please?)......

Well, ok, as this really is the more appropriate thread now. Think I got a more precise drawing
of the AP in the meantime, but still have search for it ... :-\

 

[Caravellarella]

can you put your drawings here where they belong please?)......

Well, ok, as this really is the more appropriate thread now. Think I got a more precise drawing
of the AP in the meantime, but still have search for it ... :-\

Thank you Jemiba; looking forward to it......

Terry (Caravellarella)

 

[Jemiba]

Well, did some thinking (sometimes it works !) about where to look, and as the Br.978 was
a contender to the Caravelle, I looked up in John Weggs "Caravelle" book. There it was,
although with light blue lines scanning was a little bit difficult.
Breguet actually found a much more elegant solution for fitting the Bristol Proteus to the nose,
than me. Maybe my profile of the Proteus was wrong ? ???