Armstrong Whitworth civil aircraft projects 1934

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Prior to finalising the design of the AW27 Ensign Armstrong Whitworth worked on a number of alternative airliner types
 

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The narrowing towards the tail of options 2, 3 and 4 seems a bit excessive wasting potential space at the rear of the aircraft and wings look thick enough to walk an elephant on.
 
Amazing Projects Schneiderman,

but can I ask you that,during middle of 1930s,the Type numbers was appeared,did
those airplanes belong to it or not ?,please see;

http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,9673.msg254528.html#msg254528
 
What were the seating arrangements, 2 looks like a 1 + 1 while 3 and 4 look like a 1 + 2.
 
hesham said:
but can I ask you that,during middle of 1930s,the Type numbers was appeared,did
those airplanes belong to it or not ?,please see;
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There is no indication on the drawings and all the numbers between AW15, Atalanta, and AW27, Ensign, appear to have been assigned to known projects. I suspect that they are early concepts that were not given official project numbers
 
PMN1 said:
What were the seating arrangements, 2 looks like a 1 + 1 while 3 and 4 look like a 1 + 2.
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Yes, that is correct
 
PMN1 said:
The narrowing towards the tail of options 2, 3 and 4 seems a bit excessive wasting potential space at the rear of the aircraft and wings look thick enough to walk an elephant on.
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The fuselage construction looks to be the same as for the AW15 Atalanta rather than the metal monocoque adopted for the AW27 Ensign.
I also just noticed that the original drawing dates are November 1933, signed off in March 1934.
 

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