Avro RJW-858-100 / 120 Twin engine BAe 146/Avro RJ concept

[VulcanF3]

So, I can find no information on the internet about this, yet at the Manchester Airport Memorabilia Fair today, I picked up a folder full of reports about such an aircraft.

It seems to be based on the same fuselage as the RJ 100 series, although with a slight stretch and a completely new wing holding two Rolls Royce BR710 engines.

The document is Level '0' Preliminary Aircraft Description and Specification.

Given that the designation doesn't pop up anywhere in Google, even down to 20-30 pages from the front, has anyone else ever heard of this?

 

[Hood]

The RJW designation is new to me, the 1994 date places it between the 146NRA and the final RJX effort (2000-01). Richard Payne's Stuck on the Drawing Board seems to cover this in one sentence.

There was also, the later follow-up RJX (which was originally a twinjet development of the 146 NRA) to be developed with Taiwan, a radically different 90- to 110-seater powered by two BR700, at a cost of £1 billion, was dropped.

Note this RJX is not the RJX that was launched in 2000 and cancelled in 2001. The 146 NRA was a 1990 development with two CFM56-F5 engines with a new wing. It was a twin-engine design so Payne's comment that the RJX was a twinjet version of NRA is confusing.
My best guess is that the RJW100 you have unearthed is connected to that aborted Taiwanese RJX venture.

 

[zebedee]

According to the Avro Types 602 - 862 document the Avro Heritage Museum had on their old website, it post dates the Taiwan project (Type 857) and was part of a series of 146/RJ development studies designated RJ-Q/R/T & W from 1994. The accompanying illustrations suggests some maintained the 4 engine layout.

Zeb

 

[zebedee]

For comparison, this is the RJX model the Avro Heritage Museum have.

Zeb

 

[JerryMD]

So, I can find no information on the internet about this, yet at the Manchester Airport Memorabilia Fair today, I picked up a folder full of reports about such an aircraft.

It seems to be based on the same fuselage as the RJ 100 series, although with a slight stretch and a completely new wing holding two Rolls Royce BR710 engines.

The document is Level '0' Preliminary Aircraft Description and Specification.

Given that the designation doesn't pop up anywhere in Google, even down to 20-30 pages from the front, has anyone else ever heard of this?

This was a BAe project under the Avro857 type number, also referred to as RJX, that coincided with the abortive joint venture with Taiwan. It had BR715 engines and FBW flying controls. I was responsible for the simulation of this aircraft at Hatfield and Woodford from about 1993 until it was cancelled, and much development was done. Most simulator test flying was performed by Alan Foster, and the simulation was also used as a test platform by Cranfield University PHD students who were designing FBW control laws. The RJX designation was re-used for the simple re-engined RJ of the late 1990s, which actually flew but was abandoned when BAe used the New York terrorist attacks as an excuse to get out of the civil aircraft business.