Aviation, Imagination of the Future from the Past

[Jemiba]

Don't know, if it's the same site, but I found one, which has collected a lot of those
weird big thingsfrom pre-1945 Germany, including the "Antes Flugschiff". Looking into
his biography, I couldn't find signs, that he was a typical "Nazi artist", doing exactly the
kind of things, that were especially liked by the nomenclatural. Of course, as he was working
in Germany all through the years of the national socialist regime, he certainly wasn't an
avowing opponent.
His design in some way he reminds me on those from Luigi Colani, maybe here, too, it was
more art, than technical design and in the part of the patent we have seen here, nothing
is said about its advantages, or if it ever really was intended to lead to such a large aircraft.
At least, an interesting design and I'm still thinking what it should be called. A ring wing ?
Or is it a twin boom aircraft ? Tophe, what do you think ?

 

[Tophe]

It is one of the limit cases you could classify in or out. Like the Willoughby Delta.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willoughby_Delta_8

 

[hesham]

Hi,

for the Willoughby Delta 9 three-engined project,please see;

http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,3594.msg28574.html#msg28574

 

[Caravellarella]

Dear Hesham, here is an advertisement in French extolling the virtues of Bendix Computing-Devices for future VSTOL aircraft navigation needs......

The advertisement comes from the 15th September 1963 issue of Aviation Magazine......

Terry (Caravellarella)

 

[hesham]

Dear Hesham, here is an advertisement in French extolling the virtues of Bendix Computing-Devices for future VSTOL aircraft navigation needs......

The advertisement comes from the 15th September 1963 issue of Aviation Magazine......

Terry (Caravellarella)

Very interesting my dear Caravellarella,thank you.

 

[Grey Havoc]

Hi,

a jet-ship.
http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1951/1951%20-%202187.html

An unmanned nuclear armed jet lifted/propelled rigid airship. Now I've seen everything.

 

[royabulgaf]

The air defence units wouldn't have to scramble to shoot it down, they could just put it on their to-do list.

 

[The Artist]

A couple space program futures from the past. This seems to be the place for them.

Thanks Mark for bringing these to my attention.

 

[Graham1973]

The third one looks like it could've been stolen from the storyboards from some upcoming "twenty minutes into the future" sci-fi movie.

I agree, though I've always preferred the term "the day after tomorrow" myself

 

[Lauge]

Hi,

a jet-ship.
http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1951/1951%20-%202187.html

An unmanned nuclear armed jet lifted/propelled rigid airship. Now I've seen everything.

500 000 cu ft of air at 1200 degrees centigrade? Somehow, the term "infrared signature" seems woefully inadequate.

Regards & all,

Thomas L. Nielsen
Luxembourg

 

[XP67_Moonbat]

Popular Mechanics, September 1949

I'm kinda partial to this one!

 

[Orionblamblam]

The image isn't as clear as I remember it though.

There are much better quality versions of that image out there.

 

[hesham]

I'd been looking for this picture for a while now. I remember it in a book I had as a kid, called SHUTTLE 2. I still remember building it in Legos, too. But here you go. The image isn't as clear as I remember it though. If anyone can find a better version, by all means


http://history.nasa.gov/SP-432/ch4.htm

And here's a better version of the article from the Milwaukee Journal, 10 Feb 1947
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19470210&id=VB0aAAAAIBAJ&sjid=BSUEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3021,4282102

I sent this before my dear XP67_Moonbat;


http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,1928.msg59278.html#msg59278

 

[hesham]

I'd been looking for this picture for a while now. I remember it in a book I had as a kid, called SHUTTLE 2. I still remember building it in Legos, too. But here you go. The image isn't as clear as I remember it though. If anyone can find a better version, by all means


http://history.nasa.gov/SP-432/ch4.htm

And here's a better version of the article from the Milwaukee Journal, 10 Feb 1947
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19470210&id=VB0aAAAAIBAJ&sjid=BSUEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3021,4282102

I sent this before my dear XP67_Moonbat;


http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,1928.msg59278.html#msg59278

And the source is here;


http://history.nasa.gov/SP-432/ch4.htm

 

[XP67_Moonbat]

Along a similar line as the Feb 47 article.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ffZts3mhvEM/TTCWJ4BYTyI/AAAAAAAABJ8/sgVY3s7eTwk/s1600/jettransport.jpg

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2009/01/07/race-to-the-planets/

 

[XP67_Moonbat]

http://unconventionalspace.blogspot.com/2009_01_01_archive.html

 

[Stargazer]

http://unconventionalspace.blogspot.com/2009_01_01_archive.html

Likely another variant of the Werner Von Braun design seen below:

 

[XP67_Moonbat]

I found that last one while trying to find a higher quality version moon shuttle from the 1947 article. Haven't given up yet.

 

[XP67_Moonbat]

Anybody have an idea what this is?

http://rocketsciencenews.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/alpha4.jpg

 

[Orionblamblam]

http://unconventionalspace.blogspot.com/2009_01_01_archive.html

Likely another variant of the Werner Von Braun design seen below:

As the link sez:

A design proposal for a scaled-down, piloted three-stage space ship.


From the book "Worlds in Space"
by Martin Caidin
illustration by Fred L. Wolff

 

[hesham]

Here is an US army ground attack aircraft design,from Modern Mechanix magazine.

 

[Skyraider3D]

Awesome thread!


I think we now know the answer to the last Modern Mechanix cover question: our today's sky snipers are UAVs.



Here's my old Triebflügeljäger artwork from 10(!!!) years ago, which of course fits nicely with the topic of crazy futuristic airplane designs from the past:

I should really do some new Luft'46 stuff one day... it's been awhile!

 

[hesham]

Hi,


here is high altitude flight concept;


http://longstreet.typepad.com/thesciencebookstore/crosssections/page/2/

 

[Grey Havoc]

Via GOODNET:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6DSu3IfRlo&feature=player_embedded

 

[hesham]

Hi,


with Japanese GEN H-4 article,there is two artist drawings for personal helicopter,
it was imagination for the future.


http://alternathistory.org.ua/samyi-malenkii-vertolet-v-mire-gen-h-4-yaponiya

 

[Stargazer]

Second picture (which I already posted elsewhere) represents a Solar design.

 

[Jemiba]

It probably were the colours of the second picture, that reminded me of the 1979
movie "Apocalypse Now". Tried to imagine the famous scene shown below (from
http://gamerlimit.com/2009/05/joseph-conrad-apocalypse-now-and-homefront-meet-thq/)
with those helicopters .... :

 

[Michel Van]

Anybody have an idea what this is?

This look like Waverider concept
maybe a Spacecraft or Hypersonic Test vehicle

 

[The Artist]

We've been finding some interesting things among the latest acquisitions at the museum. These are from the Mechanix Illustrated 1951 Aviation Yearbook.

Sent in two batches of five.
Thanks Mark for scanning these for me.

 

[The Artist]

Second batch.

 

[Stargazer]

Absolutely awesome through and through. Frank Tinsley was a genius illustrator, if nothing else! Thank you so much for sharing, The Artist.

 

[hesham]

Really a beautiful concepts,thank you Artist.

 

[Jemiba]

Funny today to see the expectations for the future: Everybody to have a helicopter in the garage,
instead of a car ..
And funny how the ancestry of that submarine can even be found in the number on the conning tower.
The N° 14 could be read as "I 4", as there's not enough room for "I 400" !

 

[Grey Havoc]

From 1976: http://blog.modernmechanix.com/five-noted-thinkers-explore-the-future/

 

[Grey Havoc]

The Height of Flight: London, 2026 Future Vision

JF Ptak Science Books Post 1867

Montague B. Black (b. 1884), an artist and illustrator, pulled the curtain back from the future back there in 1926 to what he thought might be the following scene of London in 2026:

http://longstreet.typepad.com/thesciencebookstore/2012/08/the-height-of-flight-london-2026-future-vision.html

 

[hesham]

Hi,


the same concept of Aerial Relay Transport Aircraft System;
http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,7093.msg61022.html#msg61022


http://www.journaux-collection.com/fiche.php?id=532338

 

[hesham]

Hi,


http://blog.modernmechanix.com/gasless-dirigible-for-safe-air-travel/

 

[Stargazer]

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/gasless-dirigible-for-safe-air-travel/

Interesting. This technology has been routinely used by dirigibles for decades but there doesn't seem to have ever been any practical application to proper aircraft. Why so? I'd like to know.

 

[hesham]

Thank you Stargazer.

 

[Grey Havoc]

From the old Paleofuture blog (current site is here), a 1967 Philco-Ford concept:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=DiTzSa7MuoU