Interesting new plane: Celera 500L
 

Yes I saw that. Some extreme claims. Willing to bet a modest sum it never goes anywhere.

I'd like to see the detail drawing of a compound-curve flush side window.

With aircraft, you have airframe and powerplant. A lot of designs suffer from being underpowered. In this case it's a twin-six. ???

I'd like to see the aeroform constructed with nano-scaled materials for neutral buoyancy, reduced wingspan and electric propulsion.

I recall this project based on the image in the 2017 link below.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zon...at-victorville

Cool design, cool designs seem to be ill-fated though.

From an early investor aspect that is usually the case for similar projects in aerospace.

In fact I recently tossed out my 20 year old Eclipse 500 folder. Many changes of hands later and far from budget and timeline it finally made it - a painful journey to say the least. I'm glad that I never put money into it, started by a dreamer.

I dunno, the efficiency improvements wouldn't be that hard. Those bizjets they're comparing with are usually low bypass turbines... real fuel suckers. A more aero design, travelling slower with a sailplane like wing at attitude and an efficient canard design with zero prop wash interference pusher design... I could see it doing MUCH MUCH better than one of those.

The Celera 500 made the main page of Fark.

www.fark.com/.../Photoshop-this-flying-thing

I dunno. Maybe the flying pickle?

Hindenburg, Star Trek, pickle, Johnny Quest, so many good ones.

Hard to pick a favorite.

Celera
 

Cool! Laminar fuselage! They must have been exposed to the International Human Powered Vehicle technology. They've been doing bicycles and submarines like this for decades. Smart.:thumbup:

I'm perplexed by the increase the cross-sectional area compared to the typical pencil shaped body.

Every time I draw a hump over a vehicle cabin that is higher than needed for headroom it gets shot down.