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...
aérospatiale
airliner
british aerospace plc
civil aviation
cold war
late 1980s
onera
snecma
space age
sst
supersonic
supersonic transport
western europe
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
Hi,
there was the SAAB-1071 a four engined high wing STOL transport and could carried 40-passengers.
http://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1968/1968%20-%200762.pdf
Ok, in 1940 the war as just started or was about to start (for Italy and Japan) and things were going fairly well. In Germany and Italy airlines and governments started to plan for the expected post-war increase in air traffic, expecially on the Atlantic routes (sound familiar?).
Diffrently...
airliner
axis powers
civil aviation
empire of japan
kingdom of italy
ministry of aeronautics (kingdom of italy)
ministry of communications and transport (japan)
ministry of munitions (empire of japan)
ministry of the air force (kingdom of italy)
nazi germany
reichsluftfahrtministerium
third reich
world war ii
American studies into a supersonic transport go back to the 1950s when various versions were proposed by Convair based on the B-58 Hustler. Things remained paper studies until John F. Kennedy moved plans ahead in July of 1961 with the formation of a presidential committee made up of members of...
Why to spend money in a development from zero if military designs can adapt?
Proposals for a SST based on the North American XB-70 Valkyrie (I cannot avoid to imagine to the boys of Green Peace in a MIG-31 with the colors of the rainbow trying him to give hunt to one of these apparatuses) ;D
airliner
civil aviation
cold war
great britain
kingdom of sweden
soviet union
strategic bomber
subsonic
supersonic
supersonic transport
transport aircraft
united states
world war ii
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