Silhouette challenge
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A version of the HP126 Aerobus? Although the only description I've found of that aircraft says that it was a twin with endplate fins and rudders. Not quite what we have here!
I'm guessing it's a short range aircraft because it seems to have only 40,000lbs of fuel.
I'm guessing it's a short range aircraft because it seems to have only 40,000lbs of fuel.
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It's a British project. The photo was taken in a well known museum to the South and East of Manchester. The a/c comes from "around" the area of that museum....but not necessarily the stated direction.....
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Have been watching this one closely and have to confess it has me beaten! It is a Bristol blended wing design for a 260 seat aircraft from the 50's but I cannot trace a Type number in the Bristol tradition. No doubt one was allocated, perhaps missing from the usual published sequence?
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From: Nottingham UK
chiglet's challenge
Further information concerning Blended Wing Bodies (BWB) including the "Bristol 260 seat -design" can be found here, http://ctn.cvut.cz/ap/download.php?id=147, at Page 34 Section 2 "The arrangement of flying wings and blended wing bodies"
The Bristol 260 seat design is also included in R Payne's book "Stuck on the Drawing Board.Unbuilt British Commercial Aircraft since 1945" published by Stroud, UK, Tempus, 2004.
Mel
The Bristol 260 seat design is also included in R Payne's book "Stuck on the Drawing Board.Unbuilt British Commercial Aircraft since 1945" published by Stroud, UK, Tempus, 2004.
Mel
