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| Author: | Lex [ Thu Sep 07, 2023 5:33 pm ] |
| Post subject: | New 'Blended Wing' Aircraft Design |
Looks really interesting: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/08/21/travel/jetzero-blended-wing-plane-climate-spc/index.html?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-gb |
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| Author: | rebbonk [ Thu Sep 07, 2023 7:04 pm ] |
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Look at the proposed developments of the AW52. - The flying wing. The UK were streets ahead until the politicians sold us out. |
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| Author: | Lex [ Fri Sep 08, 2023 6:43 pm ] |
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This country does seem to be obsessed with quick, short-term profits. |
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| Author: | rebbonk [ Fri Sep 08, 2023 7:36 pm ] |
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That is a big problem, Lex. From my days in management, if you didn't deliver a return in 18 months, nobody wanted to know. Plenty of very good ideas were abandoned because of this silly rule! |
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| Author: | Lex [ Sat Sep 09, 2023 5:08 pm ] |
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It's been a blight on the UK for years. |
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| Author: | rebbonk [ Sat Sep 09, 2023 5:20 pm ] |
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It's what happens when you allow the bean counters to have too much power. Yes, financial control is important, but the obsession with quick returns and a lack of investment combined to help kill off the UK manufacturing industry. In the 70s I was working with equipment dating from WW1, and we were one of the better-equipped parts of the aerospace industry. |
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| Author: | margaret [ Tue Jan 16, 2024 4:14 pm ] |
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What do you think of this ugly designed aircraft? [video=youtube_share;gn-8GOXdLmo]https://youtu.be/gn-8GOXdLmo[/video] ….. |
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| Author: | Lex [ Tue Jan 16, 2024 6:40 pm ] |
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I quite like it. |
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| Author: | rebbonk [ Wed Jan 17, 2024 10:58 am ] |
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There was one (much older and called a Guppy) at Bruntingthorpe last time I was there. IIRC, it's designed to carry wings for the Airbus? - Though I did see a documentary a few years back where the wings were being taken via water from the UK to Europe. |
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