Civilian versions of bomber aircraft

[blackkite]

Hi Victor passenger transport, HP.96, HP.101, HP.111, HP.108, HP.113, and HP.123.

Handley Page "heavies" family tree - Page 24 - Shipbucket

 

[Schneiderman]

HP97 from the Handley Page Bulletin - Sept 1952

 

[taildragger]

Not sure if this is an actual project but it clearly depicts a 1944 concept for a Halifax-derived postwar airliner.
The Halifax vertical tail is retained to demonstrate the lineage, I suppose, but it kind of uglies up an otherwise attractive profile.

 

[Jason Dykstra (Wyvern)]

Did this in any way influence the Hermes? The fuselage looks somewhat similar, at a first glance at least.

 

[hesham]

Not sure if this is an actual project but it clearly depicts a 1944 concept for a Halifax-derived postwar airliner.
The Halifax vertical tail is retained to demonstrate the lineage, I suppose, but it kind of uglies up an otherwise attractive profile.

It looks like HP.64 ?.

 

[Stenda G]

Model of passanger and cargo aircraft based on Tu-85.

 

[Grey Havoc]

About Tupolev: Almost all his bombers had civil derivatives, and it was beginned not in middle 1950s, but in late 1920s. The first Tupolev airliner, 9-seat trimotor ANT-9 from 1929, was derived from R-6 (ANT-7) twin-engine recon/bomber aircraft: the wing and tail unit were the same, combined with new fuselage. Also engines were different: while R-6 had two inline 630-hp M-17s (Soviet license-built BMW-VIs), the ANT-9 had three radial engines: 3x230-hp Gnome-Rhone Titan on a prototype, 3x300-hp Bessonov M-26 on serial aircrafts. But the M-26 engine was unsuccesssful, and in 1931 a version called PS-9 was designed; it had two M-17s and the powerplant was completely taken from the R-6!

Regarding the PS-9:

Tupolev PS-9 Крокодил: Russki Gator.

The Soviet authorities decided by the late 1920’s the time had arrived to create local airliners good enough to procure instead of the foreign aircraft then in use. The original ANT-9 took fl…

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[elmayerle]

Let us not forget what was likely the first B-25 executive transport converion, the one done by NAA during WW II for General Eisenhower. Of course, along those lines might the two-seat P-15B conversion, "The Stars Look Down", that flew the general over the Normandy beachhead by considered an executive version?

 

[Grey Havoc]

Regarding the Tu-104:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqhtkG6glug

 

[hesham]

From Western Aerospace 1948.

 

[hesham]

Hi,

the B-58 bomber with people pod.

http://www.flightglobal.com/PDFArchive/View/1960/1960%20-%202646.html

Also the whole page.

 

[publiusr]

I wonder if that passenger pod influenced "Lord of the Flies."

I could see that for Stratolaunch.

 

[Stargazer]

I could see that for Stratolaunch.

Totally!!