Airliner Number 4
Airliner Number 4 is the name for the project design of a large flying boat by the US-American set designer and product designer Norman Bel Geddes from the 1920s.
In 1927 Geddes gave up his work as a set designer and turned to the design of cars, ships and airplanes. The aerodynamic design of his objects was characteristic. So in 1929 the design for a transatlantic airplane was created, which he considered feasible for 1940. In Gedde's book Horizons , this plane takes up a chapter. However, the design was never realized. The project was to be financed by business people from Chicago who wanted to use the plane between Chicago and London. Nine decks, an orchestra hall, a sports hall, a solarium and two small hangars for seaplanes were planned for the structural design. 155 crew members were to be transported together with 606 passengers.
It is noteworthy that the basic concept corresponds to the J.1000 designed by Junkers a few years earlier
Web links
- Brief description and cross section of the flight deck ( Memento from January 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- Simulation of a flight from Chicago to London