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Published: 2009-01-12 22:03:34 +0000 UTC; Views: 6822; Favourites: 31; Downloads: 329
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Description The Bristol Turboliner, an aircraft I entirely made up> It has a hell of a story too.
The Bristol Turboliner originally started as the Convair Stratoliner, a six engined piston airliner, built by Convair's Ft. Worth Texas plant. It was based on the B-36 Peacemaker intercontinental bomber but with tractor instead of pusher engines. By the early 50's, Convair realized it had a bum steer on its hands and decided to pursue the Convairliners and the CV-880 jet airliner instead. Bristol Aircraft Ltd. of Filton England purchased the design and tooling in 1954 and had it all sent to its plant in the Brabazon Hanger at Filton. After a year, Bristol reevaluated and improved the design to such an extent that it was over 80% a new aircraft. By 1957, the Turbo-Liner, as it was now called, was redesigned, retaining the six engine tractor arrangement, but replacing the piston engines with Rolls Royce Dart Mk.593's rated 3,500 shp.
In July of 1957, the Turbo-liner made its initial flight from the Bristol plant to Heathrow and back. Orders poured in from several European airlines like, BEA, BOAC, Lufthansa, and KLM. Total orders were at 45 copies by 1958. The first airplane was delivered to BOAC in February of 1958 and was put into revenue service three months later, making it's first flight from London to New York's Idlewild airport.
Bristol already had plans on improvements even before the first prototype flew. Later variants recieved the Rolls Royce Tyne turboprop of 5,600 shp capacity, but were delayed when faults were found in the engine's designs. Tyne Turbo-liners first entered service in May of 1960, the first being delivered to Lufthansa. Final production was 54 planes, of which 20 were Tyne equipped. Producton continued until Bristol (then part of BAC) decided to occupy the Brabazon hangar with Concorde production, and immediately called a halt to production. The last plane rolled out of the Filton plant in October of 1965 and was delivered to BEA in December. Turbo-liners enjoyed several decades of reliable service, before being phased out by jets. The last example was a DAN-Air machine which was scrapped at Birmingham in 1971.
TECHNICAL-The Turbo-liner is equipped with six Rolls Royce Dart Mk.593's or Rolls-Royce Tynes RTY.Mk.12's driving four bladed Rotol airscrews of 16 feet diameter. Power for flight controls and undercarriage was provided by a Pneudralic system utilizing compressed air at 3,800 psi to operate Boulton-Paul powered flight controls as well as the power brakes, nosewheel steering, steerable main undercarriage, flaps, slats, undercarriage extension and retraction, and the windscreen wipers. The system is divided into four channels, two active, one standby, and an emergency system. Electrical power was from four AC alternators driven by bleed air turbines in the wing roots, supplying over 300 KW of electrical power. Electronic control was provided for the throttle controls as well as autopilot and integrated navigation systems, including an inertial nav system. The strusture is composed of Hiduminium RR585 aluminium and aaaluminium-magnesium alloys. Redux rivetless bonding being used extensively throughout. Top speed was rated at 545 MPH on the Tyne driven variants
ACCIDENTS- Only two accidents involved the Turbo-liner, neither resulting in death or write-off. One involved overshooting the end of a runway at London Heathrow, breaking off the nose undercarriage, and burying the nose in soft marshland. Only a dozen injuries were reported including a skightly battered captain who had struck the control column during the landing. The other minor incident involved a fast landing, due to a double pneudraulic system fault, causing a flaps up landing. The anti-skid system malfunctioned on one undercarriage causing those four wheels to lock up, bursting all four tyres and causing the plane to veer into the meridian at Birmingham Airport. Again only minor injuries and little structural damage.
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Comments: 54

PrinzEugn [2012-10-13 03:19:00 +0000 UTC]

I like this style! Pretty unique, not too many people do much with 50's-60's era airliners...

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Tripehound [2012-09-11 08:31:25 +0000 UTC]

Reminds me of the Bristol Brabazon XD

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AeroDog [2009-10-21 16:08:31 +0000 UTC]

I've done the bizjet and I'm redesigning the SST.

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NinjaPickle In reply to AeroDog [2009-10-22 17:43:28 +0000 UTC]

I've seen the bizjet. I'd love to see the new Concorde

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AeroDog In reply to NinjaPickle [2009-10-22 17:52:23 +0000 UTC]

I'm nearly done the new design. I'm off school ALL next week (!) so I'll post it then

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NinjaPickle In reply to AeroDog [2009-10-22 21:17:20 +0000 UTC]

Cool! I take it that you have a "fall break" over there too?
Look forward to the new stuff

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AeroDog In reply to NinjaPickle [2009-10-23 14:35:19 +0000 UTC]

We just call it ''mid-term break'' or ''Halloween holidays''

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NinjaPickle In reply to AeroDog [2009-10-23 21:35:43 +0000 UTC]

Cool! I hope your enjoying it too I wish I could get enough time from work to build more of my model kits and do some more drawings

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AeroDog In reply to NinjaPickle [2009-10-25 14:18:28 +0000 UTC]

I've finished the SST and a third one which is a single-deck XWB competitor for the A380/747.

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AeroDog [2009-10-17 09:26:04 +0000 UTC]

I recently made up 2 planes: a subsonic bizjet with a top speed of mach 0.95 and a 6-engined SST which is a cross between Eurofighter Typhoon (wings), Concorde (engines + nose) and A330 (fuselage) with a top speed of mach 2.8

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NinjaPickle In reply to AeroDog [2009-10-20 20:34:51 +0000 UTC]

Ooh...Sounds neat. Have you posted drawings of them yet?

I've done this one, the Westminster, and a steam turbine powered one too

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sharkplane77 [2009-01-16 23:58:08 +0000 UTC]

sweet! good ol turboprobs!

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NinjaPickle In reply to sharkplane77 [2009-01-20 22:17:14 +0000 UTC]

They're the best. Love the sound of them!

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CodeAires [2009-01-15 19:03:39 +0000 UTC]

Beautiful detailing on this - Just shade a little more and this will look so professional.

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NinjaPickle In reply to CodeAires [2009-01-15 22:33:42 +0000 UTC]

Thank you! I did another couple of drawings that may or may not interest you, but I did them more as a lesson in shading.

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CodeAires In reply to NinjaPickle [2009-01-16 14:51:40 +0000 UTC]

Ah, okay.

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TomCatDriver [2009-01-14 09:04:04 +0000 UTC]

this isn,t too far-fetched. remember the Bristol Brabazon and the Saunders-Roe Princess-class flying boats?

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NinjaPickle In reply to TomCatDriver [2009-01-15 22:33:00 +0000 UTC]

I sure do! In fact I have another concept airliner that is more of a landplane variation on the Princess flying boat!

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TomCatDriver In reply to NinjaPickle [2009-01-16 01:14:15 +0000 UTC]

they did look into that too,way back when....!

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NinjaPickle In reply to TomCatDriver [2009-01-16 01:22:12 +0000 UTC]

I always remember Saro doing a concept called the 'Duchess', which was a jet powered version of the 'rincess' very intriguing.

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TomCatDriver In reply to NinjaPickle [2009-01-16 22:10:51 +0000 UTC]

so many projects,but it just took so much money to make them all happen.

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NinjaPickle In reply to TomCatDriver [2009-01-20 22:24:47 +0000 UTC]

Also remember that Saunders-Roe was not a large manufacturer, and by that time, had become part of HS Group, and became part of their project organisation. I think they wound up building parts for the HS Trident and later on did stuff for Airbus

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TomCatDriver In reply to NinjaPickle [2009-01-21 04:12:46 +0000 UTC]

same for a lot of companies here. lots of names disappeared,but they were still doing a lot of subcontracting.

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NinjaPickle In reply to TomCatDriver [2009-01-21 23:41:23 +0000 UTC]

All of our aviation heritage was swallowed up by either Boeing or Lockheed

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TomCatDriver In reply to NinjaPickle [2009-01-22 05:34:38 +0000 UTC]

same as the British....! BAe just absorbed everything,and all under Government Control...

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NinjaPickle In reply to TomCatDriver [2009-01-22 22:28:24 +0000 UTC]

Its amazing really how much rich heritage BAe absorbed and probably none of their top-level execs know nothing about And you can thank a stupid Labour government for alot of major UK industries foundering. Look at the nose-dive British shipbuilding took in the 60's and 70's

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TomCatDriver In reply to NinjaPickle [2009-01-22 23:24:52 +0000 UTC]

our shipbuilding industry is all but dead....

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NinjaPickle In reply to TomCatDriver [2009-01-22 23:49:07 +0000 UTC]

really shameful! Our auto industry has turned into a joke, and I bet if something doesn't happen real soon, it'll be gone too!

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TomCatDriver In reply to NinjaPickle [2009-01-23 00:42:53 +0000 UTC]

mismanagement,shortsightedness and lots of greedy union bosses.

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NinjaPickle In reply to TomCatDriver [2009-01-23 00:56:46 +0000 UTC]

What makes me worried is that all of this bailout money we've lended the Big Three will all but dry up if they don't trim the fat off the top. They will be in the same pucture in a few months

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TomCatDriver In reply to NinjaPickle [2009-01-23 01:08:19 +0000 UTC]

we{COAir} did trim lots of fat off the top as soon as Gordo took over,and it worked. i wish President Obama would ask Gordon Bethune to join his cabinet!

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NinjaPickle In reply to TomCatDriver [2009-01-24 19:28:44 +0000 UTC]

And a very smart thing he did too! I wish he would too.

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TomCatDriver In reply to NinjaPickle [2009-01-24 23:22:57 +0000 UTC]

if they could manage to coax Gordo out of retirement....

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concordexlover [2009-01-13 16:49:02 +0000 UTC]

You never cease to amaze me!

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NinjaPickle In reply to concordexlover [2009-01-15 22:38:03 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! I have more coming

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Pilotka [2009-01-13 15:42:33 +0000 UTC]

omgwtf

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NinjaPickle In reply to Pilotka [2009-01-15 22:37:46 +0000 UTC]

thanks man. I got more coming. I've been drawing like a madman lately!

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Pilotka In reply to NinjaPickle [2009-01-15 23:12:45 +0000 UTC]

just like me! now I'm only waiting to scan my newest works... (Monday/Tuesday)

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Experiment720 [2009-01-13 12:20:52 +0000 UTC]

That is some real beautiful work, you have my respect!

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NinjaPickle In reply to Experiment720 [2009-01-15 22:41:53 +0000 UTC]

Thanks

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TheDragonLiner [2009-01-13 11:39:49 +0000 UTC]

It should be built in reality ^_-

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NinjaPickle In reply to TheDragonLiner [2009-01-15 22:42:15 +0000 UTC]

I wish it was. It would have put a whole new spin on airliner design.

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TheDragonLiner In reply to NinjaPickle [2009-01-16 11:32:11 +0000 UTC]

yeah ^_^

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Muddy-The-Fox [2009-01-12 23:50:35 +0000 UTC]

Wow You certainly know your plane history as well as such a detailed artist on them! You could write an illustrated book!

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NinjaPickle In reply to Muddy-The-Fox [2009-01-15 22:43:42 +0000 UTC]

Well thanks. Eventhough the plane is entirely made up, I wanted to write a story about its development to give the feel of a real airliner.

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Muddy-The-Fox In reply to NinjaPickle [2009-01-15 22:44:37 +0000 UTC]

Tis facinating!

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NinjaPickle In reply to Muddy-The-Fox [2009-01-16 00:23:30 +0000 UTC]

It is. i would love to write volumes about this airplane.

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dragonslayersair [2009-01-12 23:21:21 +0000 UTC]

OMG.....That is the most beautiful aeroplane I've ever seen.I have also made up a large double decker airplane much like yours. I'll post it if I can find my drawing of it, its a boeing 79X-200 turboprop. Its based of a TU-114 Russian plane.

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NinjaPickle In reply to dragonslayersair [2009-01-15 22:42:54 +0000 UTC]

Thanks, and yeah go ahead and post it. I love made up airliners. make sure it has a good story behind it too.

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dragonslayersair In reply to NinjaPickle [2009-01-15 23:41:54 +0000 UTC]

I will take me a while, If I can find it.If I don't, I'll draw a new one!

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