Yelken Octuri
Early life, more Career, Personal life, Achievements and honours (if any) Yelken Octuri is a French designer whose work includes aircraft design, product design, and furniture design. He designed a yacht to go in air and water. He is from France and works as a cabin designer for Airbus.
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Aircraft of the future
Octuri was designated as one of the most innovative people of the year in 2011 by TIME magazine.
Octuri has created five types of futuristic aircraft: • City planes • Flagellum oscillator • Flying yacht • Honeymoon space shuttle • Sailing aircraft The yacht design includes a bullet shaped hull for travel through water and air, along with four 40 meter "towering" sails that fold down into wings. The yacht is 46 meters long with four masts. It was exhibited at the French Air and Space Museum.
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- 1.Yelken Octuri: imaginer des avions pour le plaisir Le 03 août 2010 par Rémy Maucourt L'usine Nouvelle.
- 2.Flagellum oscillator - OCTURI - Design & Interior, Fictional aircraft, Light. octuri.com.
- 3.Honeymoon space shuttle - OCTURI - Design & Interior, Fictional aircraft, Light. octuri.com.
- 4.The flying yacht - November 28, 2011 page 78 Time (magazine)
Bibliography printed in the source article · 63
- Am-publishing / Apex Manual - China - April 2011
- Azothmedia - China - July 2011
- Avantages / Groupe marie-Claire - France - June 2010
- Barche a Motore - Panama Editore - Italy - February 2011
- Beards Magazine / Area Magazine - England - March 2011
- Black Card / Lifestyle magazine - Brazil - January 2011
- ShowBoats International & The Megayachts / Boat International Media - United States - August 2011
- BOOTE EXCLUSIV / Superyacht magazine - Germany - October 2010
- Capital - Italy - December 2010
- Departures - Russia - October 2010
- Domus Magazine - Russia - December 2010
- Yacht Turkiye - Turkey - September 2010
- El mercurio - Chili - September 2010
- Essence Magazine - China - August 2011
- Veto / Veto Media S.A - Greece - August 2010
- FHM magazine - South Africa - August 2010
- Forbes - Turkey - October 2010
- Gazzetta - Ukrainia - September 2010
- K Magazine / Kathimerini - Greece - August 2010
- Harmonies /Architecture, decoration and design - Lebanon - October 2010
- Helix Magazine - Egypt - August 2011
- Helm Superyacht Asia Pacific - Thailand - September 2010
- Herald Tribune - United States - September 2010
- Naver - Korea - November 2010
- Le Fourquet / Milenio Group - Mexico - August 2010
- JET Asia-Pacific / Blu Inc Media - China - June 2010
- Jetgala - Australia - December 2010
- Le Grand Mag - Spain - July 2011
- Les Débrouillard - Canada - September 2010
- LUHHO Magazine - Peru - August 2010
- Marine & Océans - Belgium - October 2010
- Máxima Interiores - Portugal - October 2010
- Multicoques Magazine / Multihulls World - France - September 2010
- Mundoejecutivo - Mexico - November 2010
- Mundoyate magazine - Spain - May 2011
- Naviga magazine - Turkey - November 2010
- Néoplanète magazine - France - July 2010
- Newlook magazine - France - June 2010
- New York Times - United States - September 2010
- Novy Cas / Slovakia Ringier Axel Springer - Slovakia - June 2011
- OCEAN Magazine - Australia - July 2010
- Latitude / ONE°15 Marina Club - Singapore - October 2010
- Pacific Flyer - Australia - August 2010
- Paris Match - France - January 2011
- PLAYBOY magazine - Ukraine - August 2010
- Popular Mechanics magazine - Russia - August 2010
- Prestige magazine - Singapore - August 2010
- Quo magazine - Spain - December 2010
- Robb Report - Spain - September 2010
- SAIL Magazine - United States - September 2010
- Soundings - United States - November 2010
- Sphere / the luxury travel and lifestyle magazine - UK - September 2010
- STYLE Magazine - China - January 2011.
- SuperyachtDesign / The Yacht Report Group - UK- August 2010
- SuperYacht World magazine - UK - October 2010
- Veja magazine - Brazil - October 2010
- Voiles et Voiliers magazine - France - September 2010
- WENN's / World Entertainment News - January 2011
- Yacht Magazine / Ship and marine equipment magazine - China - March 2011
- Yacht Turkiye - Turkey - October 2010
- YachtExpert Magazine - Romania - September 2010
- Yachting & Lifestyle magazine - Bulgaria - December 2010
- Zefir - Ukraine - October 2010
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