Beyond Aero doesn't seem to feature in any discussion on this site yet.
HQ'd in Toulouse they tout themselves as designing the first hydrogen fuel cell, full electric ducted fan business jet, the One or BYA-1. Avionics entirely fly by wire, no hydraulics involved. Not going to copy paste their...
There appears to be a 'merely' supersonic rival, from a company called Exosonic, though I suspect that it may be being funded as more of a back-up option.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/sep/2/pentagon-takes-first-step-toward-building-superson/
(This thread originally began as part...
2010s
2020s
21st century
businessjet
cold war ii
post-cold war
presidential and executive airlift directorate
supersonic
supersonic transport
united states
united states air force
vip transport
It is generally written in histories of Concorde thst the aircraft was not large enough and had insufficient range. But with the benefit of hindsight and the actual operations of British and French airlines might a smaller executive jet version have been a better bet and might still be in...
airliner
alternate history
businessjet
cold war
french fifth republic
great britain
sst
strategic bomber
supersonic
supersonic transport
western europe
Hi,
here is a Grumman/Gulfstream G.II Projects,the first had lift fan as V/STOL aircraft and the second
had a supercritical wing.
https://gulfbiz.jimdo.com/h-istory/lift-fan/
Hi,
here is the North American/Rockwell MMIPS,a Multimode Integrated Propulsion System,
fitted with a small Mach 2.7 SSBJ aircraft.
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19810009482_1981009482.pdf
businessjet
canada
cold war
fighter
helicopter
interceptor
jet age
light sport aircraft
orillia tudhope anderson company
post-world war ii
space age
transport aircraft
v/stol aircraft
vtol
Hi,
the BAe SSBJ of 1986 was designed for the future as business jet
supersonic aircraft project
http://www.flightglobal.com/PDFArchive/View/1986/1986 - 2306.html
In „Air Pictorial“ December 1972 p481 was a picture of an Norwegian bizjet. The fuselage in the background, photographed by D. Partington at Oslo-Fornebu, 9th August 1972, is uncompleted. I asked Birger Larsen, the curator of the Norwegian Flymuseum, for the fate of the aircraft and he answered...
Came across another unbuilt Cessna- the Cessna 700 proposed in 1974 as a T-tailed Citation with three engines. Never heard of it before, but I envision something like a cross between a Citation and a Falcon 50!
2010s
businessjet
cessna aircraft company
civil aviation
cold war
early 21st century
general aviation
jet age
late 20th century
post-cold war
space age
united states
war on terror
Source: Airlife's General Aviation, Second Edition by RW Simpson
The complete listing of Cessna project/model numbers would take pages, but here's the basic recap:
100 Series | Light single engined up to 280hp | ex. Cessna 172
200 Series | Larger single engined over 280hp | ex. Cessna 208...
Hi folks,
Here are a couple of civilian VTOL concepts from Hawker Siddley.
First the nice little HS.140 business jet:
Then the larger HS.141 commuter airliner:
Don't have much information on them I'm afraid.
Regards,
Greg
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