Originally Posted by
tdracer
Until someone makes a new breakthrough that works - such as blending wing/body - it's going to be really hard to tell the difference between any new design twin engine aircraft from a distance, especially when there is nothing to gauge the size by...
Some are a bit easier to tell apart.
Originally Posted by
Phileas Fogg
and WTF was a BAe ATP supposed to look like?
The ATP is basically a warmed-over Avro/HS/BAe 748, which in turn was intended to be a DC-3 replacement (a role it only partly managed to achieve) and shared the same basic configuration.