Blended-wing Airliner

Jose wrote in news:mmfSi.60532$YL5.26439
@newssvr29.news.prodigy.net:

and have concluded (a rebuttable
conclusion) it's not a problem for realistic airplane operations. Your
comments tend to support that.

Actually, my comments are not intended to support this. I think people
would have a problem going up and down and down and up at a third of a
g. It would feel like a roller coaster ride.


Wouldn't be as much as that in practice and you get g from the airplane
rotating around it's pitch axis when you sit in a cigar tube anyway!


Bertie

The point I was making, Jose, was that it took quite an extreme action
to induce that 0.3 Gs, so in terms of effects on PX the G induced
forces due to how fast the airplane banks into its turn are
unimportant. That effect was offered as one objection to a blended
wing flying machine: another, px discomfort because of their distance
from the windows, seems to have been muted as well.

Other issues, like pitch induced Gs, shouldn't be worse than those
experienced in existing airplanes and may even be better if the width
of the blended wing airplane leads to a shorter overall length.

It'll be interesting to see if such a machine reaches the market in
the next couple od decades.




On Oct 20, 6:06 am, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
Jose wrote in news:mmfSi.60532$YL5.26439
@newssvr29.news.prodigy.net:

and have concluded (a rebuttable
conclusion) it's not a problem for realistic airplane operations. Your
comments tend to support that.

Actually, my comments are not intended to support this. I think people
would have a problem going up and down and down and up at a third of a
g. It would feel like a roller coaster ride.

Wouldn't be as much as that in practice and you get g from the airplane
rotating around it's pitch axis when you sit in a cigar tube anyway!

Bertie

Jim Stewart wrote:



Did you see the crew list? A gymnast?

I think today we would call them a trainer or maybe aerobics instructor.

"JGalban via AviationKB.com" u32749@uwe wrote in
news:79f137ded6b56@uwe:

Here's an interesting proposal from 1929 :

http://home.att.net/~dannysoar/BelGeddes.htm

John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180)


And, appropriately, it was on the cover of popular mechanix or one
of those around the time it was designed.

Can you imagine how many people it could carry with today's sardine can
seating?

Gig 601XL Builder wrote:
Jim Stewart wrote:

Did you see the crew list? A gymnast?

I think today we would call them a trainer or maybe aerobics instructor.


There are still folks called gymnasts who compete in gymnastics events,
like tumbling, floor routines, parallel bars, etc...

B A R R Y wrote:
Gig 601XL Builder wrote:
Jim Stewart wrote:

Did you see the crew list? A gymnast?

I think today we would call them a trainer or maybe aerobics
instructor.

There are still folks called gymnasts who compete in gymnastics
events, like tumbling, floor routines, parallel bars, etc...

Of course there are but I don't see how they would be much use as crew on an
aircraft.

Gig 601XL Builder wrote:

Of course there are but I don't see how they would be much use as crew on an
aircraft.


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