The Soviet BURAN orbiter. Only flew once (unmanned), before the collapse of the Soviet Union. Project abbondened in 1993
I can't quite put my finger on it but I'm sure I've seen something like this before somewhere
The Planes that never were
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I can't quite put my finger on it but I'm sure I've seen something like this before somewhere
kebabking
Not a Girly Swot, but I like them....
Which you keep under the bed, with your back issues of Big Ones Monthly.
"The Avro 730 was a planned Mach 3 reconnaissance aircraft and strategic bomber for the Royal Air Force. If it had proceeded into service, the aircraft would have replaced the V bombers as the primary nuclear weapons delivery system for Britain's nuclear deterrent.[2] It was cancelled in 1957 along with other development on manned aircraft as part of the 1957 Defence White Paper."
Avro 730 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
i'm begining to be persuaded of the view that Duncan Sandys should be dug up, his corpse tried for Treason, and left swinging from the battlements of the Tower of London...
gosub
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MoonrakerI can't quite put my finger on it but I'm sure I've seen something like this before somewhere
I did actually have the toy of the Moonraker shuttle
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
All in good time, plenty of other Tories to get through first.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
I watched the one about the American SST project last night. Fascinating stuff, but the whole phenomenon of passenger SSTs seems to have been a technological dead end. Not only were Boeing defeated by the technological requirements of their overly ambitious specification, but there doesn't seem to have even been any spin-offs or breakthroughs from the SST project that they could have used in other craft (or if there were, they weren't mentioned). And the same seems to go for Concorde, and the USSR's El Cheapo knock-off.
DownwardDog
Riding a Brompton with a power meter.
Sandys was completely correct to cancel the 730 though. The appearance of the SA-2 rendered it completely pointless. Sandys' big mistake was not drowning the P1/Lightning at birth.
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Fairey Rotordyne.
If we were all deaf it would have been great.
Some these ideas are just waiting for the right combination of technology, X2 is a helicopter rather than a gyrodyne
but it uses a combination of propeller and helicopter to make a fast vertical take off machine.
top speed 250 knots
Inside Sikorsky's Speed-Record-Breaking Helicopter Technology
It has active vibration control to reduced vibrations and I think it reduces the rotor speed as the helicopter goes quicker.
I also found this on the internet, with the success of X2 may be someone will try to get this to work 
Sikorsky S-69
Sikorsky S-69 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sikorsky S-69
Sikorsky S-69 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
pogofish
Testicle Hairstyle
East Germany's attempt to build a passenger jet, the Baade 152. Never got beyond the first steps.
Baade 152 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Baade 152: The First German Airliner That Never Flew Passengers - AirlineReporter
According to this piece from 1959, that was likely due to the inability of the wider DDR economy to support it, something they hoped to fix via deals with the other side.
1959 - 0863.PDF
I didn't get a chance to go when I was in Dresden last year but it appears you can visit an ongoing restoration of a surviving but incomplete Baade fuselage into a replica of a finished aircraft. Seems it had sat at Dresden Airport ever since the plane was cancelled.
pogofish
Testicle Hairstyle
The Avro Atlantic - the Vulcan bomber reimagined as a civilian jetliner.
Think I remember reading something once about Avro punting a VTOL version of that design - with an utterly unfeasable-sounding number of engines!
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Yes, but what would you need a VTOL Vulcan for?Think I remember reading something once about Avro punting a VTOL version of that design - with an utterly unfeasable-sounding number of engines!
And did you go to the transport museum in Dresden when you were there?
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
fantastically-interesting! Thanks for posting!
SikhWarrioR
And the Worms ate into his brain
The spaceplane from 2001 A Space Odyssey wonder if that could be made to work Along with the rotating circular space station ??
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
IS crew experience nausea regularl because they are spinning round the earth very fast (and freefall). Hadfields song has the line 'Can't put my feet up, can't keep my lunch down'
its thought that further rotation would make people impossibly sick, if I recall the article I was reading. And the ISS bods will have been on one of those massive centrifuge things that spins you till you puke to test limits and been found of stable stomach. God knows what it would do to someone who gets a little travel sickness eh!
thats why I recon space tourism will be rubbish till its cheap enough to do two weeks, so you can get used to it. You'll spend the first week puking up your food. In micro g. Nice
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
But you can spend the second week enjoying "zero g nookie", like at the end of Moonraker.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
*collects Sun tokens*
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
A closer look at yer man's blog does reveal a whiff of loon about him and his ideas, but you're right, it's interesting all the same.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Keeping the British end up, eh?
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
'I think he's attempting re-entry sir'
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
"On my way to steal your girl".
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
Nobody does it better.
A380
How do I change this 'custom title' thing then?
Westland 30, a civil aircraft based on the flying parts of the mighty Lynx. They built about 40 so not quite an aircraft that never was but apparently they weren't that successful or good at flying... Still at least we never had Heseltine as prime minister.
pogofish
Testicle Hairstyle
Sadly no - I didn't have nearly long enough in Dresden before heading into Poland. Just the main artistic/cultural sights and some of the former-DDR stuff.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
I thought the city was a bit on the creepy side when I was there, to be honest. . .
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Surely even Tarzan would have been preferable to the Evil One (say not her name)?Westland 30, a civil aircraft based on the flying parts of the mighty Lynx. They built about 40 so not quite an aircraft that never was but apparently they weren't that successful or good at flying... Still at least we never had Heseltine as prime minister.
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