British flying wing / BWB airliner projects

[flateric]

HP 117
HP 126
HP 134

AW 1947-1949 flying wing airliner

BAE 1989 'integrated transport' BWB

can you improve the projects list?

 

[TsrJoe]

Cranfield BWB studies (BW'11) and sub scale demonstrator (X.48)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfD0CIAscOI

 

[flateric]

That one as well as SAI/SAX-40 etc are post - 2000.
The question was of previous projects...

 

[Schneiderman]

Every man and his dog has had a flying wing/blended wing design/concept in their portfolio post war, yet no customer has shown more than passing interest in them for either military of civil use and those that have flown were little more than proof of concept aircraft. So either the designers were and are failing to make their case or the customers were and are indifferent to the advantages. Discuss

 

[Avimimus]

Miles X would qualify wouldn't it?

Here:
http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=8088.0

 

[Schneiderman]

It would, or rather they would, as Miles kept pushing the idea for around ten years with several variations on the theme. They generated little interest and all remained on paper except for the flying scale-model M.30 'X' Minor.

 

[hesham]

Yes I can.

 

[Schneiderman]

I wonder whether we should consider the Mk VIII to be Canadian as Hill had the basic wind tunnel research carried out at the NRC facilities in Ottawa

 

[hesham]

Also Bristol;

http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,10506.msg99094.html#msg99094

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

HP 126's rival designs were the Bristol All-Wing Aircraft in the link above by hesham (104 seater and 260 seater designs) and a non-flying datum design by Whitworth-Gloster.

Handley-Page designed a slewed wing SST following NASA research.
HP.119 was a scaled prototype for HP.117 laminar flow flying wing.
HP.109 SST is kind of flying wing / delta wing hybrid.

 

[Schneiderman]

Although not strictly a flying wing, as it is better described as tailless, Armstrong Whitworth had an un-numbered project design for a civil airliner in 1946 (There is a 3-view in Air Enthusiast but I haven't scanned that)

Then in 1947 and 1948 AW advertising featured a couple of speculative flying wing airliners that are probably based on concept design work undertaken in parallel with the AW52 and AW56 bomber projects.

 

[flateric]

Appreciate your help, guys. Very handy!

 

[TsrJoe]

FG. Miles flying wing patent design
Armstrong Whitworth various flying wing design concepts and prototypes
Baynes 'carrier wing' and sub scale prototype
GAL. flying wing design concept and sub scale prototypes
Handley Page laminar flow flying wing studies

 

[Michel Van]

1939 "Perodactyl" bomber by Geoffrey Hill
1938 Baynes Bat
1956 Rolls-Royce Flying Wing VTOL
1962 Aerobus by Davidson

Armstrong Whitworth
AW.50
AW.52G
AW.32 Jet
AW.56
AW.171

AVRO 1944 early Vulcan studies

De Havilland - DH.108 Swallow (TG283, VW120, TG306)

Handley Page Manx aka H.0222 what became H.75 Manx
HP.117

Hawker Siddeley PJD.144 and P.1077

Gal gliders

Vickers Swallow studies by barnes Wallis

Westland PJD.144

Source:
Secrets Projects: Flying wings and Tailless Aircraft
By bill Rose
Midland edition 2010

 

[flateric]

Key word was 'airliners', Michel

 

[hesham]

Also Hawker-Siddely HS.145.

 

[Schneiderman]

A conceptual design by Roy Fedden in 1944

http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,4274.0.html

 

[Michel Van]

Key word was 'airliners', Michel

ups Sorry
Overlook that
but there some airliners on my list.

1956 Rolls-Royce Flying Wing VTOL
1962 Aerobus by Davidson
Vickers Swallow studies by barnes Wallis, i think there were also a airliner study on that concept.

 

[flateric]

Thank you, guys!

 

[hesham]

HP 134

From this book.

 

[Arjen]

Image hp126-1 from Stuck on the Drawing Board - Unbuilt British Commercial Aircraft since 1945 by Richard Payne, Tempus 2004.
Images hp126-2 and hp134 from Handley Page Aircraft since 1907 by C H Barnes, Putnam 1987.

Image hp126-2 from Barnes matches the HP.126 description as given by Payne.

The basic design featured a compound swept wing with a 35-degree sweep constant chord centre section housing the passengers, and a more highly swept outer wing for stability with wing tips. A forward stub fuselage would house the flight deck plus two passenger doors. Two further entry doors were provided in the wing-leading edge, which also held passengers' baggage. The cabin could house up to 102 passengers across the inner half of the span, and consisted of a shell made up of intersecting circular cylinders which ran parallel to the leading edge. Power was originally to be provided by four NGTF Type 'F' engines mounted at the rear, with intakes on the wing upper surface.

Images hp126-1 and hp134 might show the same design - HP.134? These images match the HP.134 description as given by Payne.

the 154-seater HP/134 Ogee Aerobus, with an integrated thick wing single central fin and rudder, powered by three turbojet engines

The text descriptions by Barnes of HP.126 and HP.134 match the text descriptions by Payne.
I think the caption of image hp126-1 is in error, I believe the image shows the HP.134.