Aviation, Imagination of the Future from the Past

[sferrin]

I want #3. Screw the Moller air car.

 

[Orionblamblam]

Where's our modern-day take on what flying machines will look like in 2099?

Viva La Green Revolución!

 

[hesham]

Hi,

the flying windmills.

http://books.google.com.eg/books?id=0SADAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA89&dq=flying+crane&hl=ar&ei=3rKtTP6BGcKSOuL4lMgF&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q&f=true

 

[archipeppe]

Where's our modern-day take on what flying machines will look like in 2099?
Viva La Green Revolución!

R.A. Heinlein described such situation in one of his latest novel.....

 

[Antonio]

R.A. Heinlein described such situation in one of his latest novel

Do you remember the tittle?

 

[antigravite]

This image is great. So great many reproduced it. However, I tried to trace down its source (reference), and was not able to locate. When exactly was it published, in which magazine, etc. Anybody help?

Conquering space at 120 mph, flashback from 1915...courtesy Pat Flannery

 

[hesham]

Hi,

here is a two designs for Lockheed from 1945 to show how
the jet-plane and rocket-plane of the future.

http://books.google.com.eg/books?id=_UMEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA12&dq=helicopter+Jet-propelled&hl=ar&ei=U_K6TMaHCI2fOrep7ZwN&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CDcQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q&f=true

 

[robunos]

That 'Jet Plane' concept looks a lot like the Gloster E.28/39.......
and from the caption :- "Has but one moving part".......HAWWWWWWWWWW............


cheers,
Robin.

 

[hesham]

Thank you my dear Robunos,

and here is a twin boom rocket plane of 1928,they think it
will fly to the height 100 to 150 miles.

http://books.google.com.eg/books?id=wd4DAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA739&dq=flying+truck&hl=ar&ei=94W9TNOhM4eBOt_a4GQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=68&ved=0CLQCEOgBMEM#v=onepage&q&f=true

 

[Tophe]

Wonderful twin-fuselage aircraft, thank you! So modern in 1928... and it could have been.

 

[lark]

Max Valier concept for a rocketpowered trans Atlantic aircraft..

 

[hesham]

Hi,

here is a real budget-buster from Leifpeng's flickr site,
it is a VTOL aircraft,I don't if we discussed that before
or not.

http://atomic-annhilation.blogspot.com/2009/07/blog-post_26.html

 

[hesham]

Hi,

a very strange imagination for the future.

 

[Tophe]

Very interesting, thanks Hesham. ;D
I have a question: how do you read the picture #64? Is this a 2-rotor asymmetric compound, with a short starboard wing? or else a 3-rotor symmetric compound, with one of the starboard blades hiding the starboard wing? ???

 

[Steve Pace]

The upper left shows an orange Douglas X-3 Stiletto. -SP

 

[Tophe]

how do you read the picture #64? Is this a 2-rotor asymmetric compound, with a short starboard wing? or else a 3-rotor symmetric compound, with one of the starboard blades hiding the starboard wing? ???

Thanks to Hesham who thinks it is asymmetric and sent a link, I went to
http://img217.imageshack.us/f/histoireaviation7es9.jpg/
and got a bigger view. Still difficult to decide: asymmetric or not?

 

[Tophe]

Other interesting one at:
http://img244.imageshack.us/f/voyaginerplanet05bn3.jpg/

 

[Tophe]

These pictures are dated 1954 imagining the life in year 2000
(according to http://www.ladepeche.fr/article/2000/01/01/279962-Ce-chocolat-qui-faisait-rever-a-l-an-2000.html from Google and http://grandformat.blogspot.com/2006/09/planches-images-chocolat-histoire-de.html )

 

[robunos]

Still difficult to decide: asymmetric or not?

Symmetrical. Look closely, you can see the end of one of the starboard blades between the the edge of the picture and the starboard engine.


cheers,
Robin.


EDIT- See below...

 

[Tophe]

Yes, here are the 2 hypothesis, illustrated:

 

[hesham]

Hi,

Mr. Heinz Gartmann flying wing airship.

http://www.retro-futurismus.de/radtke_raketen.htm

 

[hesham]

Hi,

the Hoppicopter;

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/01/24/helicopters-for-everybody/?Qwd=./MechanixIllustrated/1-1951/copters_for_everyone&Qif=copters_for_everyone_0.jpg&Qiv=thumbs&Qis=XL#qdig

 

[hesham]

Hi,

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/04/29/taxi-plane-picks-up-freight-and-passengers-for-airliner/

 

[Hammer Birchgrove]

"Television will carry the mails"? That will never happen...

 

[Jemiba]

"Television will carry the mails"? That will never happen...

Why not ? Isn't it a good idea to have the television presenter reading your love letters to you ? ;D
Or payment requests, medical reports and rejected applications for employment ?
Don't know if it would be that much worse, than your private data sold by internet providers or
carriers of social networks. :-\

 

[Stargazer]

"Television will carry the mails"? That will never happen...

Why not ? Isn't it a good idea to have the television presenter reading your love letters to you ? ;D
Or payment requests, medical reports and rejected applications for employment ?
Don't know if it would be that much worse, than your private data sold by internet providers or
carriers of social networks. :-\

As I understand it, Hammer Birchgrove was hinting at the fact that it HAD actually happened in the form of the internet and the e-mail... check out the smiley!

 

[Hammer Birchgrove]

"Television will carry the mails"? That will never happen...

Why not ? Isn't it a good idea to have the television presenter reading your love letters to you ? ;D
Or payment requests, medical reports and rejected applications for employment ?
Don't know if it would be that much worse, than your private data sold by internet providers or
carriers of social networks. :-\

As I understand it, Hammer Birchgrove was hinting at the fact that it HAD actually happened in the form of the internet and the e-mail... check out the smiley!

Indeed. While I'd like to see (easy-to-use) jetpacks as much as the next guy, it's fun when a futuristic prediction for once comes true, even if they may seem rather mundane.

 

[hesham]

Hi,

http://paleo-future.blogspot.com/2008_01_01_archive.html

 

[OM]

Why not ? Isn't it a good idea to have the television presenter reading your love letters to you ? ;D

...Although I'd get a total kick out of Unca Walter Cronkite reading me e-mails from my ex's, the concept of someone like that schmuck Dan Rather or that commie bastard Peter Jennings doing so tends to churn the stomach a bit.

That being said, I *hope* you caught the original poster's attempt at humor, right?

 

[hesham]

Hi,

here is a copter cops.

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/index.php?s=Copter+Cops

 

[hesham]

Hi,

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/index.php?s=This+is+the+Supersonic+Barrier+

 

[hesham]

Hi,

a prone pilot aircraft.

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/12/06/flying-down-on-the-job/

 

[Tophe]

The YP-80E with dual cockpits, in the background is very interesting too. Real industrial project?

 

[Orionblamblam]

The YP-80E with dual cockpits, in the background is very interesting too. Real industrial project?

Real.

Behold the EF-80:

 

[Stargazer]

Amazing! You learn something new every day!!

Did you notice that the rear cockpit is smaller in the second picture while in the first pic it's a standard P-80 cockpit?

 

[Tophe]

Thanks a lot Orion & Star... ;D

 

[Pirate Pete]

Whilst trawling the "net", I came across this!!

German (Nazi that is) planning gone MAD!?!?

To "quote" from the web-page...

Transportation Projects

At the same time on both sides of the Atlantic were planned aircraft that could carry 400 to 450 km / h Reisegeschwindkeit 50-100 passengers over several thousand kilometers.
Visionary and gigantic, a single leaf-air ship of Adam Antes, a sculptor from Darmstadt.

 

[Antonio]

merged

 

[richard]

So far I know , " German " don't means " nazi" ,but it's another story ...

The Adam Antes' design was not only " imagination " :it was patended in 1932 ,and models flew ... some (very bad) photos in flight were published in " Flugsport " 1934 .

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/11/21/flying-wing-is-air-liner-of-future/

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Antes

 

[Pirate Pete]

No intended offence in using the term Nazi, just that the image was from a website about Nazi architecture!!!!!