This looks interesting!

fournier · Post by **fournier** » 01 Aug 2006, 11:25

Concorde's baby!

http://sympatico-msn-ca.com.com/2300-11 ... ag=ca_home

TobyV · Post by **TobyV** » 01 Aug 2006, 11:26

Looks a little like what BAe designed in the eighties only the rear of it is different:

fournier · Post by **fournier** » 01 Aug 2006, 15:24

Nice, what was it called?

TobyV · Post by **TobyV** » 01 Aug 2006, 17:11

I dont know if it had a particular name or number. I'm not even sure which BAe site designed it, could have been Filton/Weybridge (off their Concorde experience), Hatfield (off the back of the 125), Warton (on their fighter experience) or possibly even Kingston or Brough or a combination of all of them!

I only know it as the Supersonic businessjet or SSBJ, whether thats official or not I dont know

Post by **Garry Russell** » 01 Aug 2006, 17:35

Could have been Weston using their Bristol Freighter experience :roll:

A lot of these things were just ideas and concepts and were not serious attempts at aiming a production run. So it may not have had a name or even a number. TBH I've not seen that before.

They would serve purpose by evoking comment and then discussions could give a better understanding of the needs of the market.

What it does show is that there was a time when ideas were presented instead of now where the only effort seems to be trying to sell a few more of something that has been in production for years.

Garry

TobyV · Post by **TobyV** » 01 Aug 2006, 17:39

Looking at that I think someone has gone to quite a lot of trouble there. It dates to the 80s and as can be seen carries the BAe logo on the tail. The cancards are something Concorde would have benefitted from and might have been incorporated on later ones. Theres a clear use of area-rule with the fatter fuselage ahead of the wing, tapering away where the thickest part of the wing exists and those intakes and engine mountings are certainly interesting. It appears as if each pod has two engines with two 2D intakes "top to top" sideways on to the flow :think:

Post by **Garry Russell** » 01 Aug 2006, 17:50

Yeah I noticed the area rule on the fuse.

That thinking goes back to the fifties so in a way that would be a way of thinking with twenty or more years experience.

No doubt more will turn up one day.

Garry