Project Foil Guesses?

[Flanker271]

This thread is getting old and I'm beginning to slowly losing interest, not sure if anyone else feels the same way. We've pretty much covered every conceivable airframe starting from the Cold War era and onward. Basically the takeaway is Project Foil can be anything. I'm going to stop thinking about it and place the pre-order on whatever it is, when it came out.

[Twowingtj]

I believe that the Cloud Atlas reference is an illustration for "What is done today or what was done in the past has a profound affect on the future". In the case of this F-106B, being used as a test bed, lead to many advances in airframe and powerplant developement. Good Karma. And as Quickstop mentioned below, it was "reincarnated".

[rifleman_btx]

Put a bug in ol saint Nick's ear to carpet bomb our houses with plenty of alpha enhanced airplanes!

[Gilatrout]

Alpha's location is North Pole.

[RCjetdude]

May have found it. Motion has been increasing their Heli market.

You sure those aren't baked potatoes? LOL

[icepirate3]

May have found it. Motion has been increasing their Heli market.

[Topdogzrc]

Or...
F-111, a laminar flow "glove", which the flow wrapped around the fairing section...?

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19860005835

"An analysis of 34 selected flight test data cases from a NASA flight program incorporating a natural laminar flow airfoil into partial wing gloves on the F-111 TACT airplane is given. This analysis determined the measured location of transition from laminar to turbulent flow. The report also contains the results of a boundary layer stability analysis of 25 of the selected cases in which the crossflow (C-F) and Tollmien-Schlichting (T-S) disturbance amplification factors are correlated with the measured transition location. The chord Reynolds numbers for these cases ranges from about 23 million to 29 million, the Mach numbers ranged from 0.80 to 0.85..."

In regards to the other hints:
Ozymandias: One who accomplished much, but now is only a statue or display (in a museum). The aircraft mentioned below is indeed noteworthy and currently on display. <-- which fits the bill

Cloud Atlas: A decent all-weather bombing platform, which gave rise to the B-1, F-15E, F-35 platforms perhaps where penetration through enemy air defences in any-weather condition is needed to clear a corridor for the rest to follow?

[Quickstop]

I'm going with an F-106B. I also think that "Reynolds" was indeed another hint dropped by Alpha. We all know that Alpha is drawn to both historical pilots and or aircraft.

Here are my thoughts:

Ozymandias: One who accomplished much, but now is only a statue or display (in a museum). The aircraft mentioned below is indeed noteworthy and currently on display.

Cloud Atlas: Need to do more research on how it ties in....


Reynolds wrap(foil): F-106B 57-2516, NASA NF-106B N616NA 1966-1979


Over 300 missions were flown on a variety of nozzles and inlets at various speeds,power settings,"G" levels and Reynold numbers.The lowest Reynolds number reached was on a flight requiring full pressure suits that reached an altitude of 57,000 ft. The program terminated with the transfer of the aircraft to the NASA Langley Research Center and re-designated NASA 816. Following completion of a Storm Hazards program and later a Vortex Flap program, the aircraft was ceremoniously retired on 17 May 1991. It is currently on display at the Virginia Air and Space Center, Hampton, VA. --- Earle Boyer 15 Jul 2013

Here is the link to more remarkable history on this particular tail number:

....Also the only plane to land without the pilot after he ejected. Was rebuilt and later reissued to the same pilot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M2XZEYqIpQ

[Twowingtj]

I'm going with an F-106B. I also think that "Reynolds" was indeed another hint dropped by Alpha. We all know that Alpha is drawn to both historical pilots and or aircraft.

Here are my thoughts:

Ozymandias: One who accomplished much, but now is only a statue or display (in a museum). The aircraft mentioned below is indeed noteworthy and currently on display.

Cloud Atlas: Need to do more research on how it ties in....


Reynolds wrap(foil): F-106B 57-2516, NASA NF-106B N616NA 1966-1979


Over 300 missions were flown on a variety of nozzles and inlets at various speeds,power settings,"G" levels and Reynold numbers.The lowest Reynolds number reached was on a flight requiring full pressure suits that reached an altitude of 57,000 ft. The program terminated with the transfer of the aircraft to the NASA Langley Research Center and re-designated NASA 816. Following completion of a Storm Hazards program and later a Vortex Flap program, the aircraft was ceremoniously retired on 17 May 1991. It is currently on display at the Virginia Air and Space Center, Hampton, VA. --- Earle Boyer 15 Jul 2013

Here is the link to more remarkable history on this particular tail number:

[Woodcock]

A Lear Jet would be awesome. Especially a nice one.

Woody

[Petronio]

Then, it's this

Omg...could be true! Xdd not sure I am excited or deceived hahah..need to see the endproduct and vids first

[Pete Lane]

Am getting more Emails than usual....their purging the lines of air bubbles ;)
Fasten your triple harnesses.

Pete

[Quickstop]

Then, it's this

[Boots Whirlygig]

I think Alpha May be giving another clue, more than once he called it Reynolds. or did I dream that?:Confused:

[purduephigam]

Alpha did hint that it would make it before Christmas. (Fingers crossed)

Everyone knows it's basically Christmas Nov 1st. So mayyybeee?

[JamesonC]

Alpha did hint that it would make it before Christmas. (Fingers crossed)

[Quickstop]

Is there any signs of a release date yet? I check this site many times a day just because I´m so tempted on a Freewing F100!

Seems to me, If I wanted to sell alot of them I'd release it in time for xmas

[purduephigam]

Welcome to the Squawk! I don't believe there is any indication on when FOIL is coming. It was said 2018, and I'm not sure if that remains or not. I'd imagine they'd release it before end of year, but we all know they won't rush something to get it out before they're confident in the product hitting the market!

[ATR42]

Is there any signs of a release date yet? I check this site many times a day just because I´m so tempted on a Freewing F100!

[fairplane]

Well they better hurry up ! There's already 2 more edf's I want and am trying hard to hold off until I see what Freewing has up their sleeve. I couldn't even begin to ponder a guess as to what it might be!