NASA flying wing concepts

Pat Flannery wrote:



Rick Jones wrote:
Aren't "all" the current airfreighters pressurized?


Yeah, but they are all offshoots of commercial airliners.
I'd like to see someone try to pressurize a Short Skyvan.

Uhm, Pat, Lockmart is still selling L-100s, the civvie version of the C-130.
Lockheed also got a Standard Type Certificate for the C-141A, but nobody
wanted to fly them as civilian freighters.
(And oh, yeah - can't forget the Armstrong Withworth Argosy - looked like a
4-engines turboprop C-119.
All of them pressurized, none of them commercial airliners.
(And I'd like to see a Skyvan actually get high enough for pressurization to
be useful
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Pete Stickney
The better the Four Wheel Drive, the further out you get stuck.