Bel Geddes Airliner #4

[Mossie]

Spotted this on the Fantastic Plastic site, due out in 1/288 scale.  Even in this scale it'll have a wing span of 56cm/22"!  I've always been fascinated by this huge thirties design from Norman Bel Geddes.  If built, it'd have had a 161m/528ft wingspan, 26 x 1,900hp engines (six left in reserve) & would have held 606 passengers & 155 crew, with a bar, dining room, gym & an area for deck games.  It would even have had two aircraft hangers!  It would have truly been an airliner with the level comofort of an ocean going ship of the time.  Saying that, it would have been larger & heavier than any aircraft that has ever flown, even now!

http://www.fantastic-plastic.com/BelGeddes...taloguePage.htm

More info on Airliner #4 here:
http://home.att.net/~dannysoar/BelGeddes.htm



I guess Scott's doing the moudling?

[bluesman]

Cool!


I'm glad Allen is going to kit this...as a fan of industrial design, this would be a great kit to have. I really like Raymond Lowey and Norman Bel Geddes.

Several years ago, Howard Chaykin's American Flagg! comic book series featured a Norman Bel Geddes Designer Liner Airship... a great What If subject!

[Swedish Mick]

I would love to have it in 1/72!  
I really love those big ones ...  

[NARSES2]

Absolutely stunning - love these type of designs.

Anyone fancy doing it in "Ewing Oil" colours ?    

[elmayerle]

I wonder how it would look in pre-WW II US Navy colors?  Or, for that matter, USAAC colors?