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Interesting new plane: Celera 500L
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08-29-2020, 06:25 AM
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Yes I saw that. Some extreme claims. Willing to bet a modest sum it never goes anywhere.
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08-29-2020, 05:39 PM
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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.
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08-31-2020, 09:27 AM
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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.
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08-31-2020, 09:32 AM
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Yes I saw that. Some extreme claims. Willing to bet a modest sum it never goes anywhere.
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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.
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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.
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08-31-2020, 05:50 PM
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The Celera 500 made the main page of Fark.
www.fark.com/.../Photoshop-this-flying-thing
I dunno. Maybe the flying pickle?
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Hindenburg, Star Trek, pickle, Johnny Quest, so many good ones.
Hard to pick a favorite.
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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. 
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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. |
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.
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