r/RetroFuturism • u/PappyKolaches • 5d ago

Airliner Number 4, 1929-32

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"Airliner Number 4 was a design by Norman Bel Geddes and Otto A. Koller for a 9-deck amphibious passenger aircraft intended to replace the large transatlantic liners that traveled between Europe and North America before the Second World War. It was never built." – Wikipedia

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u/CySnark 5d ago

This would be fun (and expensive) as a scale RC airplane model.

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u/Abandondero 4d ago

I think it's been done

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u/Scrangle3D 5d ago

Leasath cannot get away with this

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u/JaggedMetalOs 4d ago

(same number of passengers as a 747-8)

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u/Abandondero 4d ago

(has a ballroom)

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u/MedievalFurnace 4d ago

It reminds me a lot of the Jetliner from Fallout with how the seating appears to be in the wings rather than the fuselage. I wonder if this is where the inspiration for Fallout's Jetliner came from

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u/Holiday_Albatross441 3d ago

It's possible, but I've seen a number of early designs which put passengers in the wings. I don't think any of them were ever built.

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u/HaroldSax 4d ago

God I wish we lived in a world where physics worked like this.

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u/Heterodynist 3d ago

HA! Well, I am pretty sure it would need more than one tail to make the whole fling wing thing work, but it has worked before, right?!

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u/Heterodynist 3d ago

I like it actually. Straight outta Fallout, but I seriously don't understand what happened to planes that can land on water. Most people live on the coasts, all over the planet. I think having an endless runway of water everywhere there is an ocean or lake seems a lot safer than our current system of 100% land landings. Yes, I know there are floats on some little planes, but why not big planes!? The Spruce Goose (Hercules) did it!!