Crazy Aircraft That Never Flew | Part 1: Airliners & Transports

In today's special video we are taking a look at some of the wilder designs and concepts for airliners and transport aircraft. Following on from this will be a couple of episodes looking at various military aircraft as well.

Today's aircraft include:

Saunders-Roe Duchess: A jet-powered flying boat concept that was envisioned in the late 1940s.

Sanders-Roe Queen: An considerably larger jet-powered flying boat, that was designed upon request by P&O.

Junkers J1000: A design for a large almost flying wing, dating from the mid-1920sl

Airliner No.4: A huge design concept for what was essentially a flying cruise ship (much like the Saro Queen), the brainchild of Normal Bel Geddes.

Boulton-Paul P.144 & P.146: Two VTOL concepts, one small, one vaguely insane, both very cool looking.

Tupolev Tu-404: A giant blended-wing airliner concieved in the early 1990s.

Rolls-Royce Griffith Concept: A supersonic transport that is based on several patents applied by Alan Arnold Griffith.

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Producing these videos is a hobby of mine. I have a passion for history, and personally own a large collection of books, journals and other texts, and endeavor to do as much research as possible. However if there are any mistakes, please don't hesitate to reach out and correct anything :)

Sources:

https://archive.org/details/horizons0...
https://discovery.nationalarchives.go...
https://www.amazon.com/Boulton-Paul-A...
https://www.amazon.com/Tupolev-Aircra...
https://www.amazon.com/Junkers-Aircra...