College of Aeronautics/Cranfield University Aircraft Designs

[Vladimir]

Another cranfield project, this time a UCAV, designated U-99.
Interesting feature is theintended methode of weapon release :
The weapons bay is on the upper side, for attack the UCAV would
roll inverted.
(from AirInternational October 2000)

Thank You for 3-view, Jemiba! It looks almoust like Airbus Sagitta UCAV:

 

[hesham]

Nice find Vladimir.

 

[hesham]

A-60;

http://archive.aviationweek.com/image/spread/19620423/38/2
http://archive.aviationweek.com/image/spread/19620423/39/2

 

[hesham]

Hi,

here is some Cranfield aircraft Projects.

http://club66pro.com/documents/The-Anatomy-of-the-Airplane.pdf

 

[TsrJoe]

the 1958 'low level bomber' design was Cranfield's response to GOR.339, indeed most of the year projects are based upon issued specifications or requirement proposals

 

[hesham]

the 1958 'low level bomber' design was Cranfield's response to GOR.339, indeed most of the year projects are based upon issued specifications or requirement proposals

New Info for me,thanks.

 

[Schneiderman]

The College of Aeronautics at Cranfield in Britain was established in 1945 to provide high-level training in all aspects of aircraft design and engineering. As part of the programme the Department of Design carried out quite detailed design work on various aircraft types, which, as with many of the projects on this forum (and indeed in several books), were never intended to be built as they were just research studies. Nevertheless they are a useful addition to assess design trends. These two projects were illustrations in a lecture given to the Cambridge branch of the RAeS in 1960.


edit. I see that the SST has been posted before in a thread that has been moved to Theoretical and Speculative, although I would not consider a large part of their work to be any more theoretical and speculative than a large percentage of projects produced by industry in the 1950s and 60s. Mods can move and merge this if they wish

 

[TsrJoe]

should this thread be taken out of the 'theoretical and speculative' and 'Cranfield College of Aeronautics/University of Cranfield' treated as a 'company' in its own right ? it should be noted most of the 50/60/70's designs are based upon actual specified requirements, eg. OR.330, OR.339, etc., indeed it should be noted some of the later designs, eg, Eclipse, Demon, BWB have made it to 'hardware' stage

cheers, Joe

 

[Schneiderman]

I agree, their work was closely associated with industry, a symbiotic relationship.

 

[Schneiderman]

Yes, I noted that. The point is the thread should really be in Postwar Aircraft Projects and not in Theoretical and Speculative, which is for conceptual artwork, comic book stuff, fictional designs and so on.

 

[TsrJoe]

Air Pictorial, August 1962

 

[hesham]

Nice find my dear TsrJoe.

 

[Grey Havoc]

Farnborough Airshow: Aston Martin unveils sports car for the skies

James Bond's favourite car company has plans to develop small aircraft with engine giant Rolls-Royce.

www.bbc.com

Aston Martin reveals flying car that could hit 200 mph

The British sports car maker introduced the Volante Vision Concept at the Farnborough Airshow.

www.foxbusiness.com

http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0004601636

http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201807220018.html

EDIT: https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,30584.0.html (h/t RavenOne)

 

[Schneiderman]

Conceptual Nimrod flying boat taken from a 1999 Cranfield Phd thesis CONCEPTUAL DESIGN METHODOLOGIES FOR WATERBORNE AND AMPHIBIOUS AIRCRAFT by S H Chicken (yes, really)

 

[hesham]

Nice find my dear Schneiderman.

 

[hesham]

From Cranfield College of Aeronautics history

 

[shock1]

The V.T.O.L STRATEGIC FREIGHTER F-61 VTOL (design by Cranfield College of Aeronautics )
Seems something of a mystery, does anyone know if any manufacture's played a part in its concept.

A basic guess perhaps Bristol or Blackburn houses? I know it used RR Tyne engines as its main propulsion.

TIA

 

[flateric]

The V.T.O.L STRATEGIC FREIGHTER F-61 VTOL (design by Cranfield College of Aeronautics )
Seems something of a mystery, does anyone know if any manufacture's played a part in its concept.

A basic guess perhaps Bristol or Blackburn houses? I know it used RR Tyne engines as its main propulsion.

TIA

Why do you think they should be necessarily involved in this?

Aeroplane design studies conventional and V.T.O.L. freighter aircraft (Academic Years 1959 and 1961)

better quality copy

Aeroplane design studies conventional and V.T.O.L. freighter aircraft (academic years 1959 and 1961) | TU Delft Repositories

 

[hesham]

Welcome aboard Shock1,

and please see Cranfield Projects here;

https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/college-of-aeronautics-cranfield-university-aircraft-designs.3198/

 

[hesham]

From Aviation magazine 1991.

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

Cranfield S-83 FSW STOVL Project.

Source: An Introduction to Aircraft Design John P. Fielding

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

Cranfield A-88 STOL Regional Jet

Source: An Introduction to Aircraft Design John P. Fielding

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

Cranfield S-87 Strike Aircraft (1998)

Source: An Introduction to Aircraft Design John P. Fielding

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

Cranfield A-82 short range jet transport

Source: An Introduction to Aircraft Design John P. Fielding

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

Cranfield E-92 (1993)

Source: An Introduction to Aircraft Design John P. Fielding

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

Via Paul Chapman / British Aircraft of Prototype / Experimental and Proposed Designs Only (Facebook)

People often ask about the supersonic bomber that could be derived from Concorde. Dennis Howe proposed this as a seed design (B72) for his Aircraft Design students at Cranfield.

 

[hesham]

Hi,

A treasure of projects to Great Britain.

http://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1960/1960%20-%200911.pdf

The whole article.

 

[publiusr]

The top one is like a manned Navaho