Here is a page with some other fictional Bill Barnes airplanes: Bill Barnes Amazing Fake Airplanes
Gorgeous...View attachment 90948 View attachment 90949 View attachment 90950 View attachment 90951 View attachment 90952 Here’s my crazy daydream: A 4-seat aircraft that’s a mixture between a delta, a flying wing and a blended-wing-body. It would be of comparable overall size to a normal Cirrus SR20, but with more than double the wing area, (approx 300 sq. feet vs. 145 sq. feet) which would give an enormous lift.
With great lift comes also good weight carrying capacity. Even if those big wings would give the airplane a total weight more than 400 pounds more than the Cirrus, mine would still have a wing loading approx. half of the Cirrus. This would give very low stall speed, small turning radius, and a gentle behaviour. I guess it would not be a fast, effective long range vehicle, but more a “quick-up-and-have-fun” aircraft. But some of my inspirations are Verhees delta, and Dyke delta, and they are surprisingly fast for their installed engine power.
Gorgeous...
For over thirty years I have wanted to build a scale version of the S3A Viking using Ducted Fans. Now that battery and motor technology is improving exponentially, It might be possible to see this dream come to fruition.
How old are you, Warped?For over thirty years I have wanted to build a scale version of the S3A Viking using Ducted Fans. Now that battery and motor technology is improving exponentially, It might be possible to see this dream come to fruition.
I like efficiency. I would like to make it a hybrid (Battery/Gen). I'm not looking for hot shot flying. I think a 70% scale in a mix of Composite/Aluminum would be the easiest to construct. I have just always thought the Viking was sexy. I would make some needed changes for slower landing speeds. leading edge slats and sweep the outer wing forward. Much like the Tomcat.Why not real jet engines ?
That is a beauty...what scale did you have in mind ?
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I like efficiency. I would like to make it a hybrid (Battery/Gen). I'm not looking for hot shot flying. I think a 70% scale in a mix of Composite/Aluminum would be the easiest to construct. I have just always thought the Viking was sexy. I would make some needed changes for slower landing speeds. leading edge slats and sweep the outer wing forward. Much like the Tomcat.
Now I may be old by some peoples standards (65) but I have a long way to go still. I'm retired! Still have obligations but, a man can still dream can't he?
Yes dead Cluttonfred,Don't get me started with Luft '46, I have sketched lots of asymmetric designs inspired by Richard Vogt's Blohm and Voss oddities over the years. Imagine something along the lines of a Jodel D.9 Bébé with the pilot moved forward to a glider-like nose with fantastic forward visibility in a slightly off-center fuselage and the engine moved to a nacelle on the wing....
There was a guy back in the late '70's who was racing a custom-built jet in the Jet division at the Mojave Air Races, that looked broadly like an He-162. Somewhere in my collection of old photos, I think there's a shot, but I haven't been able to find it.How about a Heinkel 162 with tweaked aerodynamics and a modern engine, running on kero or chip fat or biodiesel? All wood, manual undercarriage,goes like you-know-what off a shovel. Put in a BRS instead of an ejection seat.
That Aeroprakt A-28 light twin needs more "glass" around the nose. If you use a computer tablet as your primary flight instrument, you barely need rudder pedals blocking your view forwards and downwards.I am more interested in applying the asymmetric approach to new original designs than in creating a replica. The traditional tractor-engine monoplane layout has the huge disadvantage that the engine blocks the view forward and downwards during the most critical phase of flight operation...landing! I would love to see an otherwise straightforward design like my conceptual asymmetric Jodel D.9 to really put the approach to the test.
For civilian sport aircraft unconcerned with tail gunner firing arcs or the view straight down for reconnaissance or bombing, I think the approach of a fuselage housing the pilot (and passengers if any) and a single engine nacelle has a lot going for it. Check out this Aeroprakt A-28 four-seat light twin and then squint your eyes and imagine an asymmetric two-seater with the engine on the right side only and the engineless left wing a little shorter.
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