Shorts Postwar Civil Aircraft Projects

[hesham]

Hi,

The Shorts PD.36 was a light freighter project based on Hurel-Dubois
Miles HDM.105,the Shorts NRA-90A and NRA-90B were a turboprop airliners projects and The Shorts FXJ was 48-seat fanjet-powered regional airliner
project. Does anyone have a drawings to them ? please.

 

[starviking]

Hi,

The Shorts PD.36 was a light freighter project based on Hurel-Dubois
Miles HDM.105,the Shorts NRA-90A and NRA-90B were a turboprop airliners projects and The Shorts FXJ was 48-seat fanjet-powered regional airliner
project. Does anyone have a drawings to them ? please.

From eBay there's this image of the FJX from Short's in-house magazine. IIRC correctly there's info and a pic at the back of Putnam's Short Brothers' book - can anyone confirm?

Starviking

 

[Sentinel Chicken]

Stuck on the Drawing Board: Unbuilt British Commercial Aircraft Since 1945 by Richard Payne (Author) has a bit on the FJX along with a three-view.

 

[hesham]

Hi,

a VTOL Autogyro designed by MR. F. H. Robertson
for Short Bros & Harland Ltd.
http://www.flightglobal.com/PDFArchive/View/1967/1967%20-%200179.html?search=bomber%201967

 

[hesham]

Hi,

The Shorts PD.36 was a light freighter project based on Hurel-Dubois
Miles HDM.105,the Shorts NRA-90A and NRA-90B were a turboprop airliners projects and The Shorts FXJ was 48-seat fanjet-powered regional airliner
project. Does anyone have a drawings to them ? please.

http://www.flightglobal.com/PDFArchive/View/1987/1987%20-%200979.html?search=project%20of%20aircraft%201987

 

[Jemiba]

Just an artists impression of the FJX, source unknown, sorry.

 

[Stargazer]

More about the Shorts FJX:

 

[toura]

Hi all
From "aviation magazine"

 

[toura]

From "Air et Cosmos"
THE pd 65

 

[hesham]

Hi,

here is a Shorts FJX and Model-450 Projects.

Jets 5/6 2016

 

[starviking]

Hi,

here is a Shorts FJX and Model-450 Projects.

Jets 5/6 2016

Thanks for those Hesham! I had great hopes back in the day to see some futuristic new jets fly off the home soil... Had to make do with catching a glimpse of a the occasional Belfast coming home for maintenance.

 

[hesham]

My dear Starviking,

and also I hope UK designs a new feederliner airplanes,as did before.

 

[hesham]

From Air Pictorial 12/1957,

here is a more info about PD.18.

 

[hesham]

From Aviation magazine 1987.

 

[hesham]

Hi,

a VTOL Autogyro designed by MR. F. H. Robertson
for Short Bros & Harland Ltd.

http://www.flightglobal.com/PDFArchive/View/1967/1967%20-%200179.html?search=bomber%201967

The whole article.