Great!
The Bucc. Built like a Brick “Out”house with a good turn to speed to.
That 4 up, where is that? I know those mountains but I just can’t place them.

Money may well make it happen.
But…….

North America and Russia are different continents….they MOVE independently of each other. Eurotunnel is OK, we are on the same chunk of terra firma.
So the tunnel will need some fancy joints at each end….a bit like the ones used for connecting car exhaust down-pipes to the main horizontal pipes!! 🙂
Or, maybe the whole tunnel could be flexible….and stay flexible at minus 50!

Pre jet, I don’t know.
But the Preston works (Now gone and replaced with a Harley Davidson shop, Aldi etc) made the structures for the Wren, Kingston, Canberra, Lightning and bits of the TSR2. Parts were then shipped to Samlesbury (Warton too) for glue-up/paint n fly.
They also did the Jaguar, bits for Concorde, Tonka, Hawk and laterly bits for the EFA (Later Eurofighter then Typhoon).
They would have made parts for many of the A/c of the day, Preston works had a sheet metal shop 2nd to none.

Niiiiiice!

Black sky with high flyer………did you colour select and black it on Photoshop?

Right, so why did Airbus conduct trials with blended winglets on an A320 recently, concluding they weren’t any better than the wing fences already installed ? And why does the new Boeing 747-800, 777-200/300ER, 767-400 etc favour raked wing tips as opposed to winglets. Even the 744 ‘Dreamlifter’ conversion has had the winglets removed…

The A320 trials were a few years ago now. They tried a blended and a cranked.
The fences, and the raked type need far less installation time and costs. The wing skins need a major mod. to get the blended on. This major mod is usually only done when the A/c is in the shed for a deep strip. The fences and rakes can be added in lieu of a wing tip, with not so much modification.
The payback of the blended is obviously worth the cost, or hundreds of 737’s wouldn’t have it on.
The 767-300 will have the blended.
The 777-300 will have the blended.
There is also an issue with the size of a blended on the end of the 747 wing. It would weigh at least 400lb, and would need a 400lb counterweight on the tip of the Front spar.
And, the A350 Nightmareliner will have as-built blended.

Check the pictures, the cockpit is virtually empty. Still a long way to go. You can see Boeing was advising! 😀
(“It isn’t finished? Roll it out anyways!”)
The cabin pictures are most likely mock-up, haven’t seen a test aircraft have its maiden flight with installed first class.

The cockpit looks fully equipped with a full glass display kit as far as I can see on the pictures.
And even if it wasn’t, it is quite normal for a roll-out to happen as soon as structure is complete, leaving final equipping to do (Which is always done in a different shed to the structure).
They could have a winner here, it’s up agin the Emb, the Bombardier C series and the A318, possibly the A319.
It looks the part anyway, and Sukhoi are a reputed firm these days.

Not as far as I know old shapre.

OpenSkies is just like a besider company for say VIP travel.

Clicky.

I’m struggling to remember the BEA sideline co. that operated as a holiday firm in the 70’s. Using Comets initially IIRC. I think they still used Bealine as their callsign though.

Does having Winglets on the 757 effect the piloting techniques? Are there new factors to take into consideration?

The pilots will have to answer that one.
All I know is that we hope to be building those 757 ones soon, for Aviation Partners Boeing. (A branch of Boeing of course). Anyone know who is making them now?
The APB style are known as a “Blended winglet”, reportedly 6% fuel saving, (Some operators have claimed nearer 9% on long haul and good air) even with the extra weight (Plus it’s counterweight on the front Spar) stuck out on the tip.
APB winglets look the business and do the job, the Airbus “Wing Tip Fences” are knocked-into-a-cocked-hat in comparison (Performance wise). And, they look so good, private customers (Of Boeing A/c) are having them fitted….and these people don’t care about 6% saving, it’s just that the A/c look so much better with them!