I have come across some information on the proposed VC.4 three-engined transatlantic airliner project of 1949.
Information on the VC.4 was used to demonstrate aerodynamic drag issues in a Royal Aeronautical Society lecture by E. J. Edwards on 24 November 1949 entitled A Review of Aerodynamic...
1935
1940s
air ministry
civilaviation
great britain
interwar period
k site
late 1930s
london underground
lullingstone airfield
post-world war ii
pre-world war ii
q site
royal air force
the southern railway
world war ii
This story fascinates me... It shows what can be done when you have little resource but a lot of creativity...
Unfortunately, the page which I took this article from had been saved onto my computer, and doesn't seem to be only any longer.
Only one forum topic (in Russian) deals with this...
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20240327/k10014404261000.html
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Aerospace-Defense-Industries/Japan-to-take-another-shot-at-a-homegrown-airliner-eyeing-hydrogen
Just one year after the official end to the failure that was MRJ, Japan is trying to start another...
Good day my friends. I am creating this thread in order to fill a little gap I am facing recently. There is a very nice thread on little-known American helicopters, where people share their findings on various designs.
For roughly 10 to 15 years, maybe 20, the situation in China regarding...
Back in the 1960s Boeing was telling everyone that its Supersonic 2707 transport would be the must-have airliner for the 1970s.
Some 26 airlines took out options on the plane.
There is a comprehensive thread about the US designs on this site, but no illustrations of the artwork Boeing must have...
The Air-Metal Flugzeug und Entwicklungs GmbH has worked in Erding since 1964 as an aircraft repair yard for touring aircraft and service work. In addition to this main activity, several projects were created. Bankruptcy proceedings in 1977 meant the end of the small business.
The projects...
In the very first Thnunderbirds Episode "Trapped in the Sky" the London Airport building features the letters BAOC (based on the British Airways predecessor BOAC) as a rival to the Air Terrainean company who flew the Fireflash.
As a BOAC fan I always hoped to see the BAOC version. So 50 years...
airliner
alternate history
baoc
british overseas airways corporation
civilaviation
great britain
model
nuclear powered aircraft
science fiction
sst
supersonic
supersonic transport
tv series
what-if
The Thunderbirds series from the 1960s featured in its first episode a wonderful airliner called Fireflash,
which was totally improbable but looked very cool.
In the series it crops up in a few episodes in the livery of "Air Terrainean", a sort of mixture of Pan American and BOAC.
However, in...
1960s
airliner
alternate history
civilaviation
cold war
great britain
jet age
nuclear powered aircraft
popular culture
science fiction
space age
supersonic
supersonic transport
tv series
In the late 60s the Germans were looking
for a replacement for its ground attack
Fiat G 91s.
As an offset against costs for BAOR and
RAF Germany the UK succeeds in selling
Harriers to the Bundeswehr and getting
Dornier involved in its production and
a joint trainer which becomes the Hawk.
HS and...
alternate history
baor
bundeswehr
civilaviation
close air support
cold war
dornier
dornier flugzeugwerke
federal republic of germany
great britain
hawker siddeley aviation ltd
luftwaffe
north atlantic treaty organisation
nuclear battlefield
raf germany
v/stol aircraft
vtol
west germany
Last night I was on board an 8 year old British Airways A320
from Berlin to London. For a half an hour after take off the route map screen showed us zigzagging round Berlin until
the pilot told us that because some hydraulic equipment had failed he was returning to Berlin. We landed and the...
http://youtu.be/-idcnKx3PQo
http://youtu.be/MGQ-7TtM4Kg
The Shanghai Y-10, the Chinese attempt to copy the Boeing 707.
Source:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/23269353@N00/5288276795/in/photostream/
1970s
awacs
civilaviationcivilaviation agency of china
cold war
dachang air base
early 1980s
general administration of civilaviation (prc)
ministry of transport (prc)
people's liberation army air force
people's republic of china
shanghai aircraft manufacturing factory
shanghai aircraft research institute
Ever since 1911, Glenn H. Curtiss constantly dreamed of an airplane which would become a "family car of the air". His last efforts in this direction was a "flying wing" biplane with a pusher propeller, the configuration of which was very much like that of the Dunne D.8 of 1911.
The similarity...
Found this British aircraft of the 1930s and have no idea if it was actually produced, or if the Navarro company did anything else. Here are excerpts from the 1931 brochure... Has anyone heard of Navarro before? Other pics would be greatly appreciated!
THE NAVARRO "CHIEF" THREE SEATER SALOON...
This sounds like a fascinating series of competitions (with more than fifty registrants and twenty flying prototypes in some years).
I'm quite curious to no more about it. I've found references (and photos) of a few individual contenders - but trying to figure out what the designers were...
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