Trev Clark's Obscure Aviation History 🚁さんのイラストまとめ

It looks rather like those clever chaps at @Airbus have found a copy of the 'dear old' Eagle comic from 65 years ago, as inspiration for their latest project! The Flying Wing has been an airline designer's dream since the 1940's, will Airbus actually make it happen at last?

Silly Ideas Department No. 3...
The 'Flying Submarine' has been a dream of designers for almost 100 years, here are three proposals that did not get much further than the pen of their artists! Still Science Fiction, as far as I know and likely to stay that way. Unless I'm wrong?

The last Junkers bomber project of WW 2 later resurfaced as an East German airliner in the 1950's. The Baade 152 was similar in size and layout to the US B-47 bomber. It first flew in 1958, but the prototype crashed fatally 4 months later. The whole project was cancelled in 1961.

Back to the 1960's, when anything seemed possible!
The Bell X-22 used four turbojets to provide thrust and also to drive four 'ducted-fan' thrust modules. It was very successful as a 'proof of concept' VTOL craft using these fans, but a commercial project is still to be built!

The Handley-Page Hampden has always fascinated me, an early WW 2 RAF medium bomber, with a very narrow fuselage. This earned it the nickname, the'Flying Suitcase', but it had a certain 'grace' and apparently very flew well. Check out the contemporary cutaway drawing from 1940.

Many Brits lament the cancellation of the TSR-2, but Canadians have a real sadness of the loss of this project. The Mach 2 Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow could have been the best interceptor in the World, at the time. Politicians scrapped it, for reasons far too complex for Twitter!😡