Tomorrow’s Plane Today

People have already given it a name – the Plastic Aeroplane; it’s the Lear Fan 2100, definitely the aircraft for tomorrow and the front-runner in a whole new ball game that looks set to tip the world’s aviation industry right on its ear . . .

Brainchild of the late, great Bill Lear whose favourite catchphrase was, ‘Don’t tell me it can’t be done,’ the Lear Fan 2100 as an original concept is already 28 years old. In 1954 William Lear proposed what could be conservatively called a futuristic design to the august Society of Automotive Engineers, in Detroit.

What Lear had in mind was a twin turboprop executive type spearing along at 400 knots, at 40,000 ft, with a true transcontinental range.

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