Ultra-Streamline Odd Plane of 1935

[hesham]

Hi,


here is a strange airplane concept,I never saw like it before ?.


https://books.google.com.au/books?id=yyUDAAAAMBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=POPULAR+SCIENCE+1935&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCwQ6AEwBGoVChMI-NHVp73WxwIVh44sCh3cXAzB#v=onepage&q&f=false

 

[lastdingo]

Re: Ultra-Streamline Plane of 1935

"ultra-streamline", but landing gear isn't fully retracted as in the then already existing I-16 ...

 

[hesham]

Re: Ultra-Streamline Plane of 1935

That's right Lastdingo.

 

[cluttonfred]

Re: Ultra-Streamline Plane of 1935

Artistically, I love it, but I am pretty sure that Point 1 in the first illustration violates the laws of physics. And engine-out handling would have been, ummm, "exciting."

 

[hesham]

Hi,

here is a complete artist drawing to it.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/362821313700691940/

 

[Arjen]

Bigger image found here: http://pinktentacle.com/2010/06/future-transportation-1936/

In 1936, Shōnen Club magazine published an illustrated article entitled "World Transportation Invention Competition," which took a look at the future of transportation.
[...]
This ultra-fast airplane, illustrated by Matsujirō Murakami, is based on a design by an American inventor. The vehicle is powered by propellers that blast air through a pair of large ducts.

 

[hesham]

Nice,thank you my dear Arjen.

 

[hesham]

The same designer and very close concept ?.

http://blog.modernmechanix.com/super-speed-turbo-plane-to-span-ocean/