The potentially revolutionary Celera 500L aircraft

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Post by tomohawk » Thu, Aug 27, 2020, 12:16 AM UTC

The potentially revolutionary Celera 500L aircraft
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Re: The potentially revolutionary Celera 500L aircraft

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Post by ahelwer » Thu, Aug 27, 2020, 12:51 AM UTC

Large parts of this article read as though they were lazily & uncritically copied straight out of a press release.

Re: The potentially revolutionary Celera 500L aircraft

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Post by woozyolliew » Thu, Aug 27, 2020, 1:05 AM UTC

ahelwer wrote: post #2

Large parts of this article read as though they were lazily & uncritically copied straight out of a press release.

It does sound a bit too good to be true. But I’d love it to be true!

Re: The potentially revolutionary Celera 500L aircraft

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Post by dmitrygr » Thu, Aug 27, 2020, 1:06 AM UTC

> A03 V12 piston engine

there's why it is cheaper! turbines are expensive, pistons are cheap.

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Post by yodon » Thu, Aug 27, 2020, 1:08 AM UTC

ahelwer wrote: post #2

Large parts of this article read as though they were lazily & uncritically copied straight out of a press release.

It sounds like a pretty seriously amazing plane. Even allowing for a positive spin this seems like a pretty big deal for the market it's in.

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Post by jschwartzi » Thu, Aug 27, 2020, 1:08 AM UTC

ahelwer wrote: post #2

Large parts of this article read as though they were lazily & uncritically copied straight out of a press release.

Yeah it's pretty breathless.

Re: The potentially revolutionary Celera 500L aircraft

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Post by Judgmentality » Thu, Aug 27, 2020, 1:09 AM UTC

The idea of being stuck in a plane for hours with no windows is...odd.

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Post by virtue3 » Thu, Aug 27, 2020, 1:11 AM UTC

dmitrygr wrote: post #4

> A03 V12 piston engine there's why it is cheaper! turbines are expensive, pistons are cheap.

Sort of. Yes yes development costs.

They are claiming the plane is also cheaper to fly dramatically, and having a similar airspeed to modern jets. That's not easy.

Modern jetliners use "turbo-fans" which are just jets powering giant fans. This allows them to be -incredibly- efficient.

The complexity of the piston based engine is in the superchargers and how they get air into the engine at high speeds.

You can read about it from the highly famous WWII engine the Rolls-Royce Merlin _- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Merlin#Supercharge...

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Post by tonymet » Thu, Aug 27, 2020, 1:12 AM UTC

Judgmentality wrote: post #7

The idea of being stuck in a plane for hours with no windows is...odd.

I've seen similar concepts that cover the walls with hi-res lcd to simulate sky & landscape

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Post by ceejayoz » Thu, Aug 27, 2020, 1:13 AM UTC

Judgmentality wrote: post #7

The idea of being stuck in a plane for hours with no windows is...odd.

There's a rendering further down showing windows. It may just be the prototype lacking them.