Airbus -'Son of Concorde' Patents Filed

[anonymous-user]

http://news.sky.com/story/1530374/son-of-concorde-...

Not sure how that could ever be commercially viable, with a claimed capacity of 20 px?

[Simpo Two]

had ham said:

http://news.sky.com/story/1530374/son-of-concorde-...

Not sure how that could ever be commercially viable, with a claimed capacity of 20 px?

20 jolly rich people.

The layout of the article is slightly unfortunate, witness:


'The aircraft would re-enter normal air space as it approached its destination before landing'

[ajprice]

Looks a bit Gerry Anderson/Thunderbirds.

[anonymous-user]

had ham said:

http://news.sky.com/story/1530374/son-of-concorde-...

Not sure how that could ever be commercially viable, with a claimed capacity of 20 px?

We have an ACJ (Airbus Corporate Jets) division that kits out and customises private / corporate / government jets; low volume but high margin although of course the actual A/C is the same as the standard px version.

Maybe it is not so much about the commercial viability but the development of the technology, you can technically build 5 (maybe 6) aircraft without subjecting them to full CAA / FAA etc approval ratings as they are classed as prototypes.

[RizzoTheRat]

Looking at the drawing I think it filed by an airbus employee on behalf of his young son rather than being a genuine Airbus project.

[croyde]

RizzoTheRat said:

Looking at the drawing I think it filed by an airbus employee on behalf of his young son rather than being a genuine Airbus project.

I clicked on the link expecting a realistic CGI presentation

[RizzoTheRat]

Patent applications usually contain line drawings rather than rendered CGI, but you can often tell the chance of being built by where it sits on the scale of CAD to Napkin

[HoHoHo]

How can Airbus patent a drawing of an aircraft which I probably did 50 years ago?

I obviously missed the boat there

[yellowjack]

bd love child of TSR2 and a paper dart?

[anonymous-user]

Trexthedinosaur said:

We have an ACJ (Airbus Corporate Jets) division that kits out and customises private / corporate / government jets; low volume but high margin although of course the actual A/C is the same as the standard px version.

Maybe it is not so much about the commercial viability but the development of the technology, you can technically build 5 (maybe 6) aircraft without subjecting them to full CAA / FAA etc approval ratings as they are classed as prototypes.

Indeed, I'm aware of ACJ - but surely the R&D costs here would be huge - and 5/6 airframes couldn't justify that, and nor, I suspect, could the technology insights gained?

[dr_gn]

It was 'filed' years ago by EADS (which doesn't exist anymore), it's only recently been granted, so it's hardly a new concept.

All the diagrams on the patent document were clearly generated by CAD.

[littlebasher]

dr_gn said:

It was 'filed' years ago by EADS (which doesn't exist anymore), it's only recently been granted, so it's hardly a new concept.

All the diagrams on the patent document were clearly generated by CAD.

Based on a model made with a Fairy liquid bottle, 6 lolly sticks, glue and an A4 sized piece of card.

[Zad]

To be fair, 99% of patent entries look like this.

[Mave]

Retractable engines, retractable rocket cover, transonic vertical dives, flight in commercial corridors under rocket power - what could possibly go wrong?

[Boatbuoy]

They could get Converted Lurker to fly it. He's an expert "don't ya know"!

[Crush]

That drawing has got to be a pisstake

[Chuck328]

File 13

AKA where the Sonic Cruiser went.

[rxtx]

Crush said:

That drawing has got to be a pisstake

No, as Zad said, they often look like this. Granted, this isn't a supersonic passenger jet, it's for a Nikon tilt-shift lens. Looks a bit simple really doesn't it.

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[Roo]

Looks more realistic than the image in the daily mail.