Bristol 100 ton bomber

It still amazes me that aircraft that heavy can lift off the ground and fly merely be airflow over the wings.........
 
Look at the amazing first picture, and also the double deck transport variant prototype, the XC-99...
http://www.air-and-space.com/peacemkr.htm

The pre-flight checklist had 600 steps and took an hour to perform... not the kind of plane for a scramble take-off...
 



XB-36 prototype: The tires of the single-wheel main landing gear were nine feet in diameter.

It was soon replaced by a four-wheel bogie.
 
Thank you Bones. The same as Rami already gave me, but thanks anyway :)
 
Interesting what-if paintings, but the "Avro 10 engined bomber" looks strange to me: the wings of the Lancaster have been super-stretched, with 10 engines instead of 4 (and there is a third vertical fin), but the length of the fuselage seems to be the same. I don't get it. :)

The fuselage was bigger, but seems the same size cause of the extra large wings.
 
The fuselage was bigger, but seems the same size cause of the extra large wings.

Hmmm, ok :)
But I hope they had planned to cram this fuselage full with bombs (and maybe also under the wings), with such a horsepower and such large wings.
 
Hmmm, ok :)
But I hope they had planned to cram this fuselage full with bombs (and maybe also under the wings), with such a horsepower and such large wings.

The idea was to carry ONE superbomb! This plane is a tribute to insanity!
 
Here is the Vickers proposal...

...this could be a terrific what if for CFS2 Europe 1946!

Cheers

Pepe
 
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