Aviation, Imagination of the Future from the Past

[hesham]

Hi,

http://klausbuergle.de/roemer_mondfahrt.htm

 

[Grey Havoc]

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200409-how-to-work-remotely-what-the-past-50-years-teaches-us

 

[hesham]

From Aviation Magazine.

 

[hesham]

Hi,

https://pdhonline.com/courses/m567/m567slideshow.pdf

 

[hesham]

Hi,

old idea on a Model.

https://books.google.com.eg/books?i...zoUKHe8qC7kQ6AEwDXoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q&f=true

 

[Grey Havoc]

https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroFuturism/comments/gqpijr

 

[Grey Havoc]

Vintage NASA film was produced in early 1970's and intended to paint a picture of NASA in 1985.

 

[hesham]

Hi,

http://edan.si.edu/slideshow/viewer/?eadrefid=NASM.1993.0055_ref536

 

[Hood]

Came across this stuck in my 4th Edition of Jane's Aircraft Recognition Guide, a cutting I made from The Times circa 1999 (must have been around the time of the conclusion of the public hearings) on the proposed Terminal 5 for Heathrow, construction on which didn't actually start until 2002.
This design looks rather more futuristic than the one actually built. Even the 747s outside are history now.

 

[Justo Miranda]

Comic

 

[Justo Miranda]

Magazines

 

[hesham]

Just hypothetical designs.

 

[richard B]

The N° 1 is a real project of Vertol (1957)
( Source : Science et Vie 1957)

 

[hesham]

The N° 1 is a real project of Vertol (1957)
( Source : Science et Vie 1957)

My dear Richard,

you meant VZ-2,but that's a speculative Project developed from it.

Here is a hypothetical car,could be easy transferred to a flying car.

 

[hesham]

A strange hypothetical concept.

 

[Hood]

A proposal for the Great Thames Barrage from 1903, one of the earlier schemes to provide flood defence and still retain good shipping access on the lower Thames.

 

[Grey Havoc]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LGL_lx9XcA

 

[PMN1]

A proposal for the Great Thames Barrage from 1903, one of the earlier schemes to provide flood defence and still retain good shipping access on the lower Thames.

Out of intrest, do you have any more information on that other than the drawing?

 

[Hood]

A proposal for the Great Thames Barrage from 1903, one of the earlier schemes to provide flood defence and still retain good shipping access on the lower Thames.

Out of intrest, do you have any more information on that other than the drawing?

The detail can be found in the original brochure which has been scanned to Project Gutenberg and which I have now rediscovered to link here:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/62224

 

[PMN1]

A proposal for the Great Thames Barrage from 1903, one of the earlier schemes to provide flood defence and still retain good shipping access on the lower Thames.

Out of intrest, do you have any more information on that other than the drawing?

The detail can be found in the original brochure which has been scanned to Project Gutenberg and which I have now rediscovered to link here:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/62224

Thanks

 

[Grey Havoc]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL47-RIyj8E

 

[Grey Havoc]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEkK-FwkSH8

 

[Nik]

Slightly off-topic, but that aircraft with the 'twin-combine-thresher' whatsits for wings...

I remember standing in our big local park for perhaps half an hour gawping at a 'kite' version of such. Most of the other kites --disks, diamonds, boxes, whatever-- were swooping and sliding all over the sky. One guy had a ex-army box-kite 'train', rated to haul an aerial aloft: It really was a 'sky-hook', clung to the air as if nailed in place. He had it tethered to a hefty 'ground-screw', as used to anchor marquees, large dogs etc.

And then there was this gleeful kid's twin-whatsit, with a significant dihedral, making a surprising amount of noise...

IIRC, it was bought, not DIY...

 

[JohnR]

I like the 1920's vision of 1950's although I would imagine the ventilation of the underground roads would be difficult. I am also having difficulty visualising the spiral escalator.

 

[Conspirator]

I like the 1920's vision of 1950's although I would imagine the ventilation of the underground roads would be difficult. I am also having difficulty visualising the spiral escalator.

i know right? it could be possible though.

 

[riggerrob]

I like the 1920's vision of 1950's although I would imagine the ventilation of the underground roads would be difficult. I am also having difficulty visualising the spiral escalator.

Just send the "used" stairs straight down a separate chute/track.

Back when I was a child, my mother used to tell us the that had to stop the escalator every few days to clear all the "used" stairs out of the basement.
Hah!
Hah!

 

[JohnR]

I can remember wondering where they went when I was a kid, but I got my question answered when they were doing maintenance on the escalator in C&A and had the door open to the machine room and the curious (in many meaning of the word) six year old I was went to have a look and struck up a conversation with the engineer.

 

[Grey Havoc]

https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroFuturism/comments/l3iozd

View: https://www.reddit.com/r/RetroFuturism/comments/l3iozd/the_airplane_of_the_future/

 

[KJ_Lesnick]

Vintage NASA film was produced in early 1970's and intended to paint a picture of NASA in 1985.

I'm surprised in the early 1970's they could produce such good 3D graphics, and flight-sims in 3D. It's quite impressive. Looking at the graphics I would have thought it was from the 1980's

 

[hesham]

From Air Force magazine 1964.

 

[dannydale]

Ali Nuove

Pellerey looks like he was onto something with that ersatz Bird of Prey. Russo's plane looks like a P-80 with swept wings, quite beautiful. Many of the others look somewhere between practical and screwball, but not as prescient as these two.

Not sure what Schittar and Campanelli were thinking; those look like things a high school football coach would draw. The Bonazzo 'helicopter' looks like something one of the football students would draw. Again, futurism is always hit and miss...

 

[hesham]

From Air Force magazine 1957.

 

[hesham]

A strange old concept of 1955.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/413647...caa74c45c60&seq=13#metadata_info_tab_contents

 

[hesham]

From Flying 1947-5.

 

[hesham]

From Flying magazine 1950-5.

 

[hesham]

Hi,

https://library.si.edu/digital-library/book/aircraft119101911newy

 

[Nik]

Spiral escalators ?? Curved or full-spirals, they exist; Google is your friend.

I've seen models of several 'off-beat' spiral escalators, ranging from a 'double helix' in contra-flow to one like a fun-fair ride.

Former design resembled the 'double spiral' stairs seen in some grand palaces in Italy, perforce with a fairly large radius to provide the head-room. Upside, reversible, and ample room for elevator shaft(s) in centre. Downside, big footprint...

Latter design did not twirl you, as entire spiral and its steps contra-rotated. You stepped onto a 'wedge' and literally went straight up or down. Upside, remarkably compact, without vertiginous gaze of traditional lonnnnng flight. Down-side, disconcerting as you didn't approach 'straight on', but 360 º radially, think 'revolving door' that you scoot into / out-of when gap comes around. Any mis-step on entry / exit jams the entry gate...

 

[boxkite]

A Soviet whatsoever, illustrated by Karl Helmich for Czechoslovakian magazine Kridla vlasti 1/1960.

 

[archipeppe]

A Soviet whatsoever, illustrated by Karl Helmich for Czechoslovakian magazine Kridla vlasti 1/1960.

Interestingly it resembles somewhat the future Buran/Energia stack....

 

[royabulgaf]

Heroic People's Thunderbirds are GO!