VFW-505 Double Deck Airliner Project ?

[hesham]

Hi,

the VFW-505 was 250-300 passenger double deck airliner,who know more
info about it ?.

 

[hesham]

Still mystery to this days ?,may be I gOt this info from Flightglobal site.

 

[Stargazer]

Still mystery to this days ?,may be I gOt this info from Flightglobal site.

If it was from FlightGlobal it could still be found in their online archive.

 

[boxkite]

Still mystery to this days ?,may be I gOt this info from Flightglobal site.

Are you looking for something like this? It was published in an advertisement brochure.

 

[hesham]

Excellent my dear Boxkite,thank you very much,and from my dear Richard,


here is the VFW-505 "Delphin Concept",from Der Flieger 12/1974.


My dear Stargazer,you are right,it was from a book or file as I think,but not from Flightglobal.

 

[hesham]

Hi,


here is the drawing for accommodation of passengers internal the aircraft,and the travelers
used the rear door for raising to airplane.

 

[HoHun]

Hi Hesham,

here is the drawing for accommodation of passengers internal the aircraft,and the travelers
used the rear door for raising to airplane.

From the looks of it (and the "dolphin" name) , it seems to be based on Professor Heinrich Hertel's ideas of a laminar flow fuselage.

Here some more pictures, including some of a sailplane testbed for the nose shape:

Otto Celera 500L- einmotoriges Mehrzweckflugzeug mit Dieselmotor

Die Monospar aus den 30er-Jahren hatte was ähnliches Die hatte aber keine Druckkabine.

www.flugzeugforum.de

Here's a book authored by Hertel ... the preview includes two pages of content:

Struktur, Form, Bewegung : Hertel, Heinrich: Amazon.de: Bücher

Struktur, Form, Bewegung | Hertel, Heinrich | ISBN: | Kostenloser Versand für alle Bücher mit Versand und Verkauf duch Amazon.

www.amazon.de

I didn't read the book, but I'm intrigued by the image of the boxfish ... the 2005 Mercedes Benz "bionic car" used that supposedly very low-drag shape, too. Now I wonder if there was any connection to Hertel's work!

Regards,

Henning (HoHun)

 

[alertken]

FRG Govt 1/66 (then a Coalition, CDU-CSU+FDP) chose to attend France/UK Govt discussions on a Big Twin for BEAC/AF/DLH. Project Studies had been funded 11/65 for response 4/66, at Sud, AMD, Nord, Breguet and at HSAL, BAC. Those led to submission of Sud/BAC Galion and HS/Breguet/Nord HBN100. Exactly then Boeing sold 747 to PanAm, C-5A had been sold to USAF 11/65, and US was exploring Medium-sized civil Wide-Bodies. FRG politicians of all Parties saw this sector as re-entry for civil FRG-Aero. So VFW was funded as a rehearsal, audition, to qualify to join the team to be selected by France+UK. Look upon these sketches as student exercises. They succeeded in bringing new-FRG Aero to a point where they could claim "noble" work, and did so supremely successfully on (to be) A300B. New (1/12/66) Coalition Ministers assigned FRG's workshare, 25%, to a team where VFW was junior, but the audition's competence had been disseminated.

 

[hesham]

Hi Henning,

I agree with you,and I think he was the designer.

 

[thefrecklepuny]

Still mystery to this days ?,may be I gOt this info from Flightglobal site.

Are you looking for something like this? It was published in an advertisement brochure.

Looks like the personal jet of Batman's nemesis, Penguin!

 

[Coiler]

It looks like a lemon with wings.