External aircraft surveillance video cameras

[hesham]

Hi,

please see this dtrange Boeing 747 project with only two engnies;


http://www.flightglobal.com/PDFArchive/View/1997/1997%20-%200038.html
http://www.flightglobal.com/PDFArchive/View/1997/1997%20-%200039.html

 

[Just call me Ray]

Re: Strange Boeing 747 project

What do you mean two engines? The side profile of the 747 clearly shows the standard four engines. The top view profile looks like a completely different aircraft - I would guess an early 777 concept, since the 777 and 747 are actually very close in size.

 

[Matej]

Re: Strange Boeing 747 project

I think that this two aircrafts are not in scale. Considering the cockpit glass, I assume that the top view represents something B737 sized.

 

[Just call me Ray]

Re: Strange Boeing 747 project

That's likely true as well. I'd probably guess this was the 737 NG and some 744 update.

 

[Jemiba]

Page 36 of this Flight issue shows the topview of a Boeing 747, page 37 the side view of a 747 and the top view of,
as supposed, a 737. My guess would be, that the drawings just got mixed up, an error probably excusable even for
a magazine like Flight.
And the theme definitely wasn't a new version of the 747 either, but the use of external cameras on airliners, as clearly
stated by the article, so this thread was moved to this section here.

 

[hesham]

That's a mistake from them of course.