Lamanna BWB Bomber of 1935

[hesham]

Hi,

a flying wing bomber or BWB by recent language,it was tested
in model wing tunnel form in 1935.

 

[airman]

which nation ? :

 

[XP67_Moonbat]

I wonder if Vincent Burnellli had a hand in desgning that?

 

[lark]

Lamanna 1935 and the name of the magazine L'Aerotecnica sounds Italian
or French ... I dont know but the illustration comes from:

http://www.twitt.org/PreBurnelliPatents.html

 

[Jemiba]

The same drawing was published in in R.Storck "Flying Wings", with
the additional pictures of what may have been a wind tunnel model.
Designed by Ciro Lamanna under the designation "Tutt Ala CL" in 1935,
it would have been a twin engined bomber with a crew of eight.
Span was 22,84m, wing sweep 35° and wing area 105 qm.

 

[hesham]

The same drawing was published in in R.Storck "Flying Wings", with
the additional pictures of what may have been a wind tunnel model.
Designed by Ciro Lamanna under the designation "Tutt Ala CL" in 1935,
it would have been a twin engined bomber with a crew of eight.
Span was 22,84m, wing sweep 35° and wing area 105 qm.

My dear Jemiba,


can I ask you if this designer was French or not ?.

 

[lark]

Ciro Lamanna - Italian designer.

 

[hesham]

Thank you my dear Lark.

 

[Jemiba]

lark was faster, thank you !
No other information in the mentioned book besides that the project was axed
by the decision of the airforce to develop the Savoia-Marchetti S-73 into the SM-73
andf then the SM-82 and so to spare the money needed for this completely new type.

 

[hesham]

Thank you my dear Jemiba.

 

[!Mark]

I had found this in a pdf file but the quality is bad, I'm glad that I found more about this plane!

 

[hesham]

From, Rivista_aeronautica 1943.

 

[lucamax]

From, Rivista_aeronautica 1943.

Dear,
can you share the full article?
Thank you!

 

[hesham]

OK my dear Lucamax.

 

[lucamax]

OK my dear Lucamax.

Thank you!

 

[!Mark]

Brought this plane concept to life with AI (Google Nanobanana on Gemini mobile)

 

[lucamax]

Wow! What type of prompt do you use?

 

[airman]

Brought this plane concept to life with AI (Google Nanobanana on Gemini mobile)

so thanks , probably seems Google banana is the best of this type of recostructions.

 

[airman]

Lamanna BWB Bomber of 1935 if was built , probably could had been mounted twin engine Isotta Fraschini . Without many other technical data seems be only a preliminar project.

 

[!Mark]

Wow! What type of prompt do you use?

Thank you because you inspired me to make these AI reconstructions.

You simply upload the reference images and type: "Make a hyper-realistic photograph of this exact plane as an italian Regia Aeronautica test plane with insignias, in stunning color.
Make the image be a collage of different angles of the plane (top, side, 45° angle) with perfect consistency of the plane across the different shots. Maximum quality and detail and resolution."
But it often takes many attempts and trial and error, and some details won't look right, for example the Fasci roundels look weird, and I had to specifically tell it to reproduce the features on the back of the plane, and then I uploaded an image of Guidonia DSSE to use as background setting.
With time and with other software like Photoshop you could fix the wrong details and make it even better.

 

[Coiler]

Thank you because you inspired me to make these AI reconstructions.

I do something very similar with Stable Diffusion's Controlnet. You use (often manually edited) reference images to make what amounts to an outline (of whatever you pick), add a prompt like "______ of an airplane, 1930s style" and then re-edit it later. Similar weaknesses, but also similar potential.

 

[hesham]

The same drawing was published in in R.Storck "Flying Wings", with
the additional pictures of what may have been a wind tunnel model.
Designed by Ciro Lamanna under the designation "Tutt Ala CL" in 1935,
it would have been a twin engined bomber with a crew of eight.
Span was 22,84m, wing sweep 35° and wing area 105 qm.

The whole page.