Old Flying Barrel Airplanes

[hesham]

Hi,

here is some old flying barrel airplanes.

http://allenfrostlibrary.blogspot.com.eg/2011/04/flying-barrel.html

 

[hesham]

The Bertrand flying barrel airplane;

http://www.luftfahrt-bibliothek.de/zeitschrift-flugsport-oskar-ursinus-luftsport-luftfahrt-luftverkehr/luftsport-luftfahrt-luftverkehr-flugsport-1911/zeitschrift-flugsport-1911-luftsport-luftverkehr-luftfahrt.htm

 

[dan_inbox]

The "Flying Barrel" is actually the plane designed by William Pierce Gary and his Non-Capsizable Aeroplane Co.
It went through various evolution stages, from 1909 to 1913. With and without side winglets.
Apparently nicknamed "Hoople" because of its resemblance to a hoop.
It was destroyed when nosing over in a severe ground loop, as could be anticipated from such a design.

 

[dan_inbox]

The Bertrand machine is the 1910 "Unic No 1 RB".
And contrary to Gary's Hoople, the circular part is not meant to be a wing and generate lift.
Instead, it is meant to improve the thrust of the airscrews placed at each end. One could think of it as a ducted fan, or as the ancestor of the Caproni Stipa.

 

[Deltafan]

I found this one today : the Brissard aeroplane (from Kees Kort collection on flickr)

https://flic.kr/p/QJUXyd

https://flic.kr/p/2a78Rjq

https://flic.kr/p/P7xq94

 

[Bottleship]

USSR, Suhanov, 1940, STOL:

600 kmph, 800 HP Hispano-Suiza engine, diameter - 3 m. First project by Suhanov - 1936.
Also, data of project of 1942-1943 - also, diameter 3 m, 1600 HP Shvetsov M-82A, weight 2500 kg, diameter of two propellers 3 m, maximum speed 740 kmph, speed on 3000 m 640 kmph.
Name - "Koltseplan" (Rus. Кольцеплан, "Ring-plane"), today use for analogical schemes of airplanes.
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Germany, G. Koch, 1893, steam machine, 50 HP:

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Other famous tube airplanes - Stipa-Caproni, Heinkel Wespe, Heinkel Lerche, Givaudan airplane, later - SNECMA C-450, Lockheed Ringwing, Convair Model 49, other coleopteres.

 

[Bottleship]

 

[Nik]

Looking at that, I feel it has a worthy spiritual successor in those French whatsits, the Leduc-021 and the SNECMA Coleopter.

French Leduc 021 Experimental Ramjet Cutaway, 1956 – Invisible Themepark

www.invisiblethemepark.com

FWIW, that site seems to have a nice collection of crisp 1950s-era cut-aways ...