And on the FlightGlobal Web site, Jon Ostrower suggested that Boeing might be planning to substitute an enhanced version of the Rolls-Royce engine for its basic model in the planes built for All Nippon Airways.
The next summer, Mr. Le Vier became involved in development of the U-2, the long-winged plane built by Lockheed for the Central Intelligence Agency to photograph Soviet missile installations from altitudes of about 70,000 feet.
When the men approached traditional manufacturers with their designs for a such a large plane built entirely of lightweight carbon fiber, for example, they were turned away.
For instance, consider the Lockheed SR-71 "Blackbird", an experimental spy plane built during the cold war.
There he teamed up with another visionary, Albert Plesman, the founder of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, who commissioned a four-seat F-II, the first plane specifically built for passenger transport.
Even more obscure is the faintly racy 1928 song "Pilot Me," whose narrator imagines himself as "a cozy narrow plane just built for two," whose gears are "stripped" on its maiden trip.
The best option for resuming sport air racing seemed to be in the development of formula racing (competitions organized according to factors such as engine size), using surplus military aircraft, which could be bought quite cheaply, and small, fast planes built specially for racing.
A new plane comprising four MIMOSA 28 planes has been built for the AIDA telescope, covering a detection area of 16 cm 2, and an appropriate DAQ has been developed to cope with the higher data rates.
Finite element models with three different element types (3D, shell and plane strain) were built for a Stretch Forming Simulator (SFS) test (Shih and Shi, 2008), numerical simulations with four different R/t values (die radius normalized by sheet thickness) were performed.
