Trans-atlantic flight for the discerning chap

[hirez]

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

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[gashinryu.livejournal.com]

Please don't tell me it runs on Ewing Oil.

[thunderbox.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure which I like best; the space reserved for the orchestra, or that there's an airplane hangar in each tail.

[amanda-pink.livejournal.com]

Reminds me of something from the 'Venus Wars' anime... Cool!

[sarah-mum.livejournal.com]

Boom-tish, not the only one to spot the connection then.

[goth-twiglet.livejournal.com]

I want to be the librarian.....what a wonderful job that would have been!

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Two wine stewards (sommeliers?) and a narrow-gauge railway in the engine room for carting broken motors about.

Of course, the thing would be much more at home doing the Empire Run.

[zenmonkeykstop.livejournal.com]

The B-36 had in-flight access to the engines in the wing, but no railway. One of them had a nuclear reactor installed for test purposes, though I don't think it did anything but sterilise the flight crew.

Funnily enough I was on that very site the other day, looking for Eole pictures... It's a small interweb.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

http://www.cowtown.net/proweb/nb36h_jde.htm

I now want to find pictures of the recovery gear. It all sounds like the inspiration for Thunderbirds. Especially the illustration in the second link.

[siani-hedgehog.livejournal.com]

have you seen any of the current designs for flying wing type planes floating about? they're very, very similar. most of them are suggesting a movie theatre for the centre of the plane, and only a few rooms, though. when i first saw one i also dug out a good description of one from an old SF story.

[thunderbox.livejournal.com]

"The crew was a Pilot, Co-pilot, Reactor Operator, Instrumentation Operator and a Flight Engineer."

There's a phrase you wouldn't want to hear in the captain's announcement when the doors are locked and the plane's taxi-ing: "Your Co-Pilot this morning is Captain Jones, you Reactor Operator is..."

[hirez.livejournal.com]

"... Running away across the tarmac... Oh. Er... Here's some music."