That there is a big ol’ airplane

 transports  No Responses »
May 272020
 

Found on the Flickr account of the San Diego Air & Space Museum is this bit of concept art:

The description: “Flaunt Fleet Air Ultra Naval transport sitting 25 above waves on rsbs retractable spar buoy stabilizer concept and design by Thomas P. Faulconer artist Joe Ferrara date 1985 includes plaque and article by designer on back”

This came from an article published in the April 1985 issue of the US Naval Institute Proceedings by Thomas Faulconer, an article I don;t have. So… there ya go.

If you’ve got It, FLAUNT (fleet air ultra 
naval transport) It. Thomas P.Faulconer. tab 
lllus US Nav Inst Proc 111:135-139 Apr »85

 

 Posted by at 5:32 pm

A Flying Delorean

 future projects, VTOL  No Responses »
May 242020
 

There have been a lot of “personal air vehicles” designed over the last decade, most designed for VTOL operations and many with purely electric  propulsion systems. One such design – which I can’t vouch for on either technical or financial fronts – is the Delorean DR-7 from Delorean Aerospace, founded by the nephew of *that* Delorean.

Their website, lean on details:

http://www.deloreanaerospace.com/

An article from 2017:

A Flying Car From DeLorean Really Won’t Need Roads

And a patent (US9862486B2):

Vertical takeoff and landing aircraft

 Posted by at 9:07 pm