Any idea what this is?
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Don't think it flew - he's a concept designer (who did the QF 380 interior) not an aeronautical engineer - from his website:-
"Inspired by his lifelong interest in aviation, Marc set out to create a small jet-powered airplane that would restore excitement to the experience of civilian flying. This concept jet is named after Lord Kelvin, the nineteenth century physicist and mathematician known for his research in thermodynamics and absolute temperature, and the main character of Andrei Tarkovsky's film Solaris, another source of inspiration.
For Marc, the Kelvin40 is a very personal object, resulting from his obsession with the technology, materials, and processes that derive from the aerospace industry, where precision is of foremost concern and technology is constantly changing. He also believes the jet engine to be one of greatest inventions, unsurpassed to this day.
In aviation, form follows function and so Marc created an aesthetic object that is a direct result of the mechanical requirements of aeronautical design. He involved himself in all aspects of the design and production of this concept jet plane. Its wingspan measures almost twenty seven feet and corresponds directly to its length. Likening the plane to a sculptural object, Marc emphasised the customised elements such as the handmade panels that were carefully adjusted and riveted over the course of a year, the deep blue plush upholstery, and the red detailing at the air intake of the airplane that alludes to a mouth."
Also https://www.designisthis.com/blog/en...pt-marc-newson
could have been a BD-10 if they'd ever tried to build it .............
Don't think it flew - he's a concept designer (who did the QF 380 interior) not an aeronautical engineer - from his website:-
"Inspired by his lifelong interest in aviation, Marc set out to create a small jet-powered airplane that would restore excitement to the experience of civilian flying. This concept jet is named after Lord Kelvin, the nineteenth century physicist and mathematician known for his research in thermodynamics and absolute temperature, and the main character of Andrei Tarkovsky's film Solaris, another source of inspiration.
For Marc, the Kelvin40 is a very personal object, resulting from his obsession with the technology, materials, and processes that derive from the aerospace industry, where precision is of foremost concern and technology is constantly changing. He also believes the jet engine to be one of greatest inventions, unsurpassed to this day.
In aviation, form follows function and so Marc created an aesthetic object that is a direct result of the mechanical requirements of aeronautical design. He involved himself in all aspects of the design and production of this concept jet plane. Its wingspan measures almost twenty seven feet and corresponds directly to its length. Likening the plane to a sculptural object, Marc emphasised the customised elements such as the handmade panels that were carefully adjusted and riveted over the course of a year, the deep blue plush upholstery, and the red detailing at the air intake of the airplane that alludes to a mouth."
Also https://www.designisthis.com/blog/en...pt-marc-newson
could have been a BD-10 if they'd ever tried to build it .............
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Originally Posted by TWT
He's a successful designer of all sorts of items. I think this design might be a coffee table.
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The Kelvin 40 was discussed on Secret Projects back in 2007, plenty more photos!
https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/thr...airplane.2824/
https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/thr...airplane.2824/
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Originally Posted by Self loading bear
I wonder how you are supposed you climb into and out off the aircraft without tipping it over?
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Originally Posted by sablatnic
That too, and why has he stuck the main gear several meters behind the CG?
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Originally Posted by Asturias56
I think you could ask the same question of the B-47 and the B-52
You wouldn't make this kind of trade-off with a small aeroplane on a relatively long undercarriage - aside from the difficulty in rotation it would be severely directionally unstable.
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Originally Posted by PDR1
For the B47 & B52 it was a design trade-off. The aircraft were so long that any significant rotation would have required very long undercarriage legs, with attendant issues for ground dynamics (let alone weapon loading, maintenance and hangarage). So they designed the aeroplanes to NOT rotate - take-off flap gave them sufficient lift coefficient to just lift off "flat". You can see the side-effect of this when a B52 does a low pass in landing config. It's travelling faster than the normal over-the-hedge speed so it has to fly with the fuselage attitude several degrees nose down.
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Originally Posted by Asturias56
and the B-47 often required a lot of JATO to get off at all
When I was at Abingdon in 1959, B-47's trailing parachutes on the approach to Brize Norton were seen regularly.
