Lockheed CL-945 stowed-rotor aircraft (CARR)

[Arjen]

Images merged with GIMP.
<edit> new image with better alignment of parts

 

[hesham]

Images merged with GIMP.

Oh my God,you made my day my dear Arjen,Thanks.

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

Nice work.

 

[hesham]

From L+K 4/1966,

it had estimated speed of 800 km/h ?.

 

[Orionblamblam]

Full rez available through here:
http://www.aerospaceprojectsreview.com/blog/?p=4082

 

[Orionblamblam]

Another piece of art. This is clearly based on the same piece in the post right above... I wonder if the one was copied from the other, or painted *over* the other.

http://www.aerospaceprojectsreview.com/blog/?p=4138

 

[yasotay]

Suspect that there was a background painting done, with variations of the aircraft put in on top of the painting.

 

[Orionblamblam]

Suspect that there was a background painting done, with variations of the aircraft put in on top of the painting.

The original that I own is everywhere an actual painting, not a background lithograph. I don't know if it makes sense to paint the same background over and over. Eyeballing the two, the leaves and buildings *look* identical. I suppose the thing to do is overlay the images and see just how exactly they line up...

 

[Jemiba]

The background, including those buildings, seems to be identical, with the exception, that the Army got
that bathing pond.

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

Its not uncommon in aviation concept art for the earlier oil painting to be overpainted in a modified configuration, rather than have the artist paint an entirely new picture.

 

[hesham]

From Aviation magazine 1967.

 

[hesham]

Hi,

AIAA Aerospace Research Central

 

[Helodriver]

There's a model of the turboprop variant for sale on Ebay right now. First I've seen.


https://www.ebay.com/itm/1965-LOCKH...ef85:g:EdcAAOSwOc5fxUoB&LH_ItemCondition=3000

 

[allysonca]

There's a model of the turboprop variant for sale on Ebay right now. First I've seen.


https://www.ebay.com/itm/1965-LOCKHEED-CL-945-Factory-Model-COMPOSITE-AIRCRAFT-RETRACTED-ROTOR-CONCEPT/393037803397?hash=item5b82e0ef85:g:EdcAAOSwOc5fxUoB&LH_ItemCondition=3000

I was able to get it from the seller at a decent price after it did not sell for asking. I'll post pictures after I receive it and fix the boo-boos.

 

[allysonca]

Its not uncommon in aviation concept art for the earlier oil painting to be overpainted in a modified configuration, rather than have the artist paint an entirely new picture.

Different aircraft and sorta kinda the same if you squint real hard......

 

[allysonca]

Almost forgot.... all fixed and pretty in it's proper place.

 

[hesham]

From Aviation magazine.

 

[hesham]

From Interavia 1966.

 

[hesham]

From a magzine ?.

 

[hesham]

From Army magazine 1967.

 

[citizensnip]

 

[woofyc_89]

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I'll be doing a full video on this concept very shortly so watch this space. I'll update this post when its done. Thanks TIM!

 

[Scott Kenny]

I was thinking the other day how viable these concepts could be today. With digital fly by wire/light and computing power the controlability of the aircraft should not be overly difficult. With composite materials weight (and thus cost) can be reduced as well. Mechanical reliability would likely be the biggest challenge, but thanks to better understanding of aero and using wing mounted thrust as counter-tourque, the dynamic components of a design like this could be ... simplified (sorta).

I dunno, there's limits on how big a wing and fuselage you can have blocking airflow from the rotor. And I just don't trust the automatic fold/stow setups.

 

[yasotay]

@Scott Kenny - well, it seems to work just fine in all the Transformer movies..