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| Staying with airliners, W. Garrow-Fisher designed a medium-range, 10-seat, low-wing transport
with twin Alvis Leonides LE 4M engines, named
Concordia. The first flight took place at Eastleigh on
19 May 1947, but only two were eventually
completed, an extensive sales tour of Europe having
failed to win suffIcient orders to proceed into series
production. Cunliffe-Owen never recovered from this
setback and went out of business in 1948.
| Mervyn Horton, e-mail, 18.11.2014 13:02 The problem with the Concordia wasn't lack of sales potential (this is a myth) but rather lack of power from the LE4Ms in single-engined flight, making certification impossible. reply | | Barry, 01.04.2014 14:59 The difficulty for all new civil airliners after the war was that there were so many ex military aircraft like the DC3 available, which offered a higher capacity and a greater performance.In addition larger established manufacturers like DeHavilland were able to produce similar aircraft like the D.H.106 Dove, which benefited from military orders in the form of the Devon, which put the Concordia on a hiding to nothing.
Specification:
2 x 550h.p. Alvis Leonides LE 4M
Span 56ft 7in
Length 44ft 10in
Height 16ft 9in
Max Speed 216mph @ 3,000ft
Cruise Speed 194mph @ 9,500ft reply | | Mike Crouch, e-mail, 13.03.2011 21:04 I have some photographs of the wing assembly and a final photo of the finished aircraft with all the people involved in its construction. I also have the original sales brochure giving all relevent details of the engines and performance details .My father was a fitter for C O and was very proud of this aircraft , pity it was not a success reply | | Mike Crouch, e-mail, 13.03.2011 21:04 I have some photographs of the wing assembly and a final photo of the finished aircraft with all the people involved in its construction. I also have the original sales brochure giving all relevent details of the engines and performance details .My father was a fitter for C O and was very proud of this aircraft , pity it was not a success reply | |
| | Teri DeSales, e-mail, 29.10.2009 06:40 Jason: any chance you could scan a copy of that advert. My grandfather was the designer of the plane and we have very little information. Thanks! reply | | Jason Evans, e-mail, 07.05.2009 02:29 I live in Eastleigh, and although this plane was a bit before my time, i am sad it was never produced, it was a nice looking plane and i would have been proud to say it was born in my hometown.
I recently got a old advert from a aeroplane magazine, its actually a Concordia advert (dated may 30th 1947) so only 11 days after the first flight. reply | | Peter Larkham, e-mail, 13.12.2008 04:52 I made a model of this for flight simulator 2004 and I have a handful of photos I begged for during my research, drop me a line if your still interested reply | | Martin Fox, e-mail, 30.10.2007 13:57 Hello, I have a friend who is keen to get hold of photos of this and other aircraft, can you help? reply |
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