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This is the second time I've seen this design posted here, but as far as I can tell, SE Aeronautics is not a real aerospace company, and this jet is pure vaporw

This is the second time I've seen this design posted here, but as far as I can tell, SE Aeronautics is not a real aerospace company, and this jet is pure vaporware. The address on their website is a wedding venue at Mathews Manor. (Probably-not-coincidentally, Tyler Mathews is SE Aeronautics CEO.) Anyone can throw together a 3D rendering of a jet with extra wings and make all sorts of claims about its performance.

phkahler 5y ago
These things often involve a number of newish technologies in the pitch. Using "next gen" engines from existing companies, going composite over more of the aircraft to save weight, using a new shape or in this case more wings. By the time you stack up the evolutionary stuff - which is going to happen anyway - the revolutionary part isn't that big a deal. And by the time they overcome the challenges of doing a real design, the industry has evolved and the revolutionary concept fades away.
- notahacker 5y ago
  Civil aircraft that actually get built tend to have as few newish technologies as possible, and nothing outlined in this proposal is evolutionary. More to the point, no evidence is presented of any credentials to do an actual design, and two years ago they were launching a revolutionary seat
pbhjpbhj 5y ago
>Anyone can throw together a 3D rendering of a jet with extra wings // Seems not as the first image either has the wings/wing tips on upside down or is missing the upward facing winglets. I've seen aircraft with upward, both down- and up-ward, but never just downward facing winglets. https://calaero.edu/guide-airplane-winglets/ https://calaero.edu/guide-airplane-winglets/ This sort of engine arrangement seems likely to suffer with centre of gravity problems? The side scoops feed the rear engine so the top engine could be occluded by the fuselage?

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This is the second time I've seen this design posted here, but as far as I can tell, SE Aeronautics is not a real aerospace company, and this jet is pure vaporw

by ChrisGranger 5y ago

phkahler 5y ago
These things often involve a number of newish technologies in the pitch. Using "next gen" engines from existing companies, going composite over more of the aircraft to save weight, using a new shape or in this case more wings. By the time you stack up the evolutionary stuff - which is going to happen anyway - the revolutionary part isn't that big a deal. And by the time they overcome the challenges of doing a real design, the industry has evolved and the revolutionary concept fades away.
- notahacker 5y ago
  Civil aircraft that actually get built tend to have as few newish technologies as possible, and nothing outlined in this proposal is evolutionary. More to the point, no evidence is presented of any credentials to do an actual design, and two years ago they were launching a revolutionary seat
pbhjpbhj 5y ago
>Anyone can throw together a 3D rendering of a jet with extra wings // Seems not as the first image either has the wings/wing tips on upside down or is missing the upward facing winglets. I've seen aircraft with upward, both down- and up-ward, but never just downward facing winglets. https://calaero.edu/guide-airplane-winglets/ https://calaero.edu/guide-airplane-winglets/ This sort of engine arrangement seems likely to suffer with centre of gravity problems? The side scoops feed the rear engine so the top engine could be occluded by the fuselage?