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    WI Medway Trident and VC10 Super 200?

    Both of these airliners were shrunk at the request of their initial customer, the Trident from 111(130?) seat Medway sized to 97 seat Spey sized and the Super 200 from a 212 seat 28' fuselage stretch to a 174 seat 13' stretch for the Super VC10. The Super VC10 was then embroiled in a public...
  2. N

    Various turboprop airliner transport cargo and utility aircraft projects? Discussions and the weird stuff?

    This is a list of the various aircraft projects with turboprops? Also pics are welcome
  3. Hood

    Vickers VC.4

    I have come across some information on the proposed VC.4 three-engined transatlantic airliner project of 1949. Information on the VC.4 was used to demonstrate aerodynamic drag issues in a Royal Aeronautical Society lecture by E. J. Edwards on 24 November 1949 entitled A Review of Aerodynamic...
    • Hood
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    • 1949 airliner civil aviation cold war great britain late 1940s post-world war ii vickers vickers-armstrongs vickers-armstrongs limited
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    • Forum: Secret Postwar Aircraft Projects
  4. A

    Guangdong Changsheng China Star airliner

    https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/china/cs2000.htm Can't find a post for this so here it is.
  5. uk 75

    A different Concorde?

    It is generally written in histories of Concorde thst the aircraft was not large enough and had insufficient range. But with the benefit of hindsight and the actual operations of British and French airlines might a smaller executive jet version have been a better bet and might still be in...
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    • airliner alternate history business jet cold war french fifth republic great britain sst strategic bomber supersonic supersonic transport western europe
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    • Forum: Alternative History and Future Speculation
  6. Orionblamblam

    US Supersonic Transport (SST) Program 1960-1971

    US SST 1960-1971
  7. uk 75

    Ireland's SST that never was

    Back in the 1960s Boeing was telling everyone that its Supersonic 2707 transport would be the must-have airliner for the 1970s. Some 26 airlines took out options on the plane. There is a comprehensive thread about the US designs on this site, but no illustrations of the artwork Boeing must have...
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    • 1960s 1970s aer lingus airliner boeing civil aviation cold war éire jet age republic of ireland space age sst supersonic supersonic transport
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    • Forum: User Artwork and Models
  8. uk 75

    The VC10 and me

    One UK aircraft has been around me more than any other, and no, its not my beloved TSR2, AVS or Boeing SST. It is the VC 10 My Dad made me the Airfix kit. Until recently and from the age of 9 I could watch these elegant planes in their smart RAF colours doing circuits in and out of Brize...
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    • airliner british commonwealth british empire british overseas airways corporation civil aviation cold war great britain royal air force vickers-armstrongs vickers-armstrongs limited
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    • Forum: The Bar
  9. uk 75

    The Gerry Anderson Fireflash that never was

    In the very first Thnunderbirds Episode "Trapped in the Sky" the London Airport building features the letters BAOC (based on the British Airways predecessor BOAC) as a rival to the Air Terrainean company who flew the Fireflash. As a BOAC fan I always hoped to see the BAOC version. So 50 years...
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    • airliner alternate history baoc british overseas airways corporation civil aviation great britain model nuclear powered aircraft science fiction sst supersonic supersonic transport tv series what-if
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    • Forum: User Artwork and Models
  10. uk 75

    Fireflash airliner from original TV Thunderbirds TV 21 artwork

    The Thunderbirds series from the 1960s featured in its first episode a wonderful airliner called Fireflash, which was totally improbable but looked very cool. In the series it crops up in a few episodes in the livery of "Air Terrainean", a sort of mixture of Pan American and BOAC. However, in...
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    • 1960s airliner alternate history civil aviation cold war great britain jet age nuclear powered aircraft popular culture science fiction space age supersonic supersonic transport tv series
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    • Forum: The Bar
  11. hesham

    FAA Feederliner of 1944

    Hi, http://archive.aviationweek.com/issue/19441009#!&pid=1 http://archive.aviationweek.com/issue/19441009#!&pid=48
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    • airliner all american aviation civil aviation feeder airlines association united states world war ii
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    • Forum: Secret Early Aircraft Projects
  12. hesham

    Columbia Aircraft Corporation 'Uncle Sam' Transoceanic Aircraft Project

    Hi, The Columbia Aircraft Corporation and the designers,Edmund Changiard and Alexander Kartveli created the Uncle Sam,it was a transoceanic transport all metal aircraft,with cantilever wing looks like a blended wing,and powered by three engines,all details are in Les Ailes journal and in...
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    • airliner civil aviation columbia aircraft corporation interwar period late 1920s transport aircraft united states
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    • Forum: Secret Early Aircraft Projects
  13. hesham

    Bach Super Transport Project of 1928

    Hi, Super Transport 1928 = 25pCswB; four 410hp P&W Wasp; span: 85'0" v (est): 152/120/x range (est): 800. Ambitious design project which never made it to production, but is included because of its design magnificence for the time. The double-deck fuselage had two lounges, a buffet table, 6'3"...
  14. Stargazer

    Douglas ATA-A1: Another « Skybus » project !

    Ever heard of the Douglas « Skybus »? I can hear you from here: "Of course! That was supposed to be a much-enlarged airliner derivative of the XB-42 Mixmaster..." Well, yeah. But no. Not THAT Skybus. A couple of days ago I came across this eBay item, an article about ANOTHER Douglas Skybus...
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    Tupolev Tu-404

    Back in the '90s, wasn't there supposed to be a Soviet flying wing stealth bomber from Tupolev, the Tu-202 or Tu-404 or something?
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    • 1970s 1980s 1990s airliner anti-submarine warfare cold war commonwealth of independent states maritime patrol aircraft post-cold war russian federation soviet union strategic bomber superjumbo tupolev tupolev okb ussr
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    • Forum: Secret Postwar Aircraft Projects
  16. uk 75

    Boeing 2707 SST airline artwork wanted

    Over many years I have gathered together brochures and artwork (cards ads etc) for the Boeing SST So far I have artwork for the following: Airlift (photo of broken model from ebay) Alitalia (drawing in brochure) Braniff (image from Internet site) Continental (photo of model in brochure-meatball...
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    • airliner alternate history boeing civil aviation cold war jet age space age sst supersonic supersonic transport united states what-if
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  17. hesham

    Aerospatiale ATSF (Alliance) / British Aerospace AST

    Hi, please see the Flightglobal; http://www.flightglobal.com/PDFArchive/View/1987/1987%20-%200980.html
    • hesham
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    • aérospatiale airliner british aerospace plc civil aviation cold war late 1980s onera snecma sst supersonic supersonic transport western europe
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    • Forum: Secret Postwar Aircraft Projects
  18. hesham

    Aerospatiale AGV - Avion à Grande Vitesse

    Hi, please see the Flightglobal; http://www.flightglobal.com/PDFArchive/View/1987/1987%20-%200980.html
    • hesham
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    • aérospatiale airliner civil aviation cold war france french fifth republic hypersonic late 1980s ramjet western europe
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    • Forum: Secret Postwar Aircraft Projects
  19. overscan (PaulMM)

    Bristol 198 SST project

    Technical Report http://naca.central.cranfield.ac.uk/reports/arc/cp/0815.pdf
  20. hesham

    Various Japanese civilian aircraft designs

    Hi, The Japanese company NAMC YS-12 was developed from YS-11 but powered by two Rolls Royce dart RDa 10s ,YS-31 was with two RDa 7s and the YS-12-4 was with four RDa 10 engines. http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1959/1959%20-%203097.html?search=ys-12
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    • airliner civil aviation cold war hypersonic japan light aviation post-cold war supersonic supersonic transport v/stol aircraft vtol
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    • Forum: Secret Postwar Aircraft Projects
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