Celera 500L Aircraft
June 7th, 2019Via: The Drive:
More than two years after The War Zone was first to report on a mysterious bullet-shaped aircraft appearing at the Southern California Logistics Airport near Victorville, a refined version of the plane has conducted taxi tests and looks to be getting close to its first flight. Even though much about its design and purpose remain unclear, we do know now that the aircraft, which is called the Otto Aviation Celera 500L, is definitely focused on potentially game-changing high-efficiency flight that has the potential to disrupt the aerospace marketplace.
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I saw my father make the first flights of the Lear Jet and the Lear Fan. The Lear Fan was much like this Celera 500L, except Lear Fan was nearly 40 years ago. Lear Fan had issues with poor management (they needed old man Lear back there to kick-ass.) The airplane also had problems with the sophisticated transmission used to drive one propeller via two engines, plus problems with construction, being the world’s first All-Composite aircraft. Still a really “Cool” design.
https://www.flyingmag.com/pilot-reports/turboprops/flashback-1981-look-back-lear-fan/