Airbus Industrie copying 1950's Burnelli design.
In an article entitled "Europeans Think Radically" which
appeared in Flight International issue of November 17-23
(page 14), a picture is shown (see below) of a lifting-body
passenger transport very similar to a Burnelli 1951 model
and also closely resembles the Boeing Megajet project which
even more closely resembles that Burnelli design.
The Flight International article misleadingly states:
"Airbus Industrie and its partner companies have begun
looking at configurations that could lead to the
introduction of radical designs for new airliners in the
next century." The article further states that these
configurations include " 'unconventional ideas' such as
flying-wing configurations."
In light of the fact that Vincent Burnelli first reduced the Lifting
Body to practice in 1921. To say that flying-wing, lifting-body configurations are
radical new designs shows corruption as
Airbus is keenly aware of the origin of the lifting-body
design.
In 1983 Deutsche Airbus invited Mr. Goodlin (of the
Burnelli Company) to a meeting in Hamburg at which the
Airbus Chief Design engineer, Dr. Klug, said: "The only
meaningful way to improve air-transport safety and economics
is to implement the lifting-body design." But soon after,
the Chairman of Airbus, Dr. Franz Josef Strauss, advised Mr.
Goodlin: "Burnelli has an American problem and it must be
resolved in the United States."
And now Airbus is looking at RADICAL DESIGNS? Cm'on!!!
