The flying barrel meets the flying wing

The Stipa-Caproni "flying barrel" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYqr2h_xQRk gets scaled up

Got room for fourteen more?

Not until Bill Lear came along was there a specific demand for high-dollar aircraft for the rich and famous I dunno what's with the swastika

Rumpler is better known for its WWI aircraft

Handley-Page HP42 caught on ground by storm and hail. I think this was the "Hanno" or "Heracles"

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65qrzgbTTcQ

Civilian models of the Vickers Valiant and Handley Page Victor V-bombers were also planned. The Vickers V-1000 won the contest over the Atlantic, but ultimately none of these designs would be built. "We have handed to the Americans, without a struggle, the entire world market for big jet...

Avro is reported to have insisted on an initial order of at least 25 aircraft before it would commence production. These orders were not forthcoming, perhaps because of the Comet metal fatigue disasters.

Though it would've used the same wings, the fuselage would have been considerably longer and wider

Note the rearward-facing seats

Seating looks to be considerably more than the Comet

Looking as graceful as the Concorde fifteen years later

Avro Atlantic, a proposed passenger version of the Vulcan

Orient Express 2000, 1906