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Old Posted Dec 16, 2016, 7:23 PM
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I've never flown on a 747. They barely seem to be in service anymore.

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I've flown on a 747. They barely seem to be in service anymore.
That's because they've mostly been replaced by more fuel efficient large twins like the 777 and A350.
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Old Posted Dec 17, 2016, 7:04 PM
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Boeing and NASA have been testing the blended-wing-body design for a while. Hopefully, we'll see these airplanes at commercial airports someday.













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Old Posted Dec 17, 2016, 10:54 PM
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The 777X will feature partially-folding wings (the last 12 feet on each side) Not exactly new technology, but new to commercial aviation. If successful, I think you'll see more dramatic examples of this in the future given the space constraints at most airports. If you can park a 777 at a 737 gate suddenly your airfield capacity is at least doubled, and that's without spending billions on terminal infrastructure.

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In case you'd forget, both British-French cooperation and the Soviet Union managed to achieve something slightly different and twice faster a long time ago already.

These were developed in the 60s and turned fully operational in the mid 70s.
Concorde was so great that the US merely banned it from their airspace.
LOL, God bless 'murika, baby!.. and no one else, huh.
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Oh yeah because the Concorde was such elite and unique technology that the Americans couldn't touch it:


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The Concorde was an awesome thing, but let's not be delusional about it's superiority or practicality as a business venture. The Concorde failed because it was a terribly inefficient business with a very limited market. The 707 design has more or less been regurgitated for half a century because it is the most efficient format for reliably hauling the most passengers with the least fuel.

This is like the same reasoning as people saying "oh America has fallen behind because they aren't building as many supertalls as China or the middle East" when really it's just economics. The buildings going up in those places are mostly regurgitations of technology that was already demonstrated here 50-100 years ago and the majority of them are designed and engineered by American firms. The jetliner retains it form for business reasons just as the skyscraper in American cities like Chicago is often 30-40 floors and 300-400' for residential towers and 35-50 floors and 600-700' tall for office. Those are the most efficient programs for towers, sure the occasional supertall is profitable simply for cache and novelty, but it's not a good standard business model. Same goes for airplanes, sure a supersonic jet is great for spying or ferrying around super rich people, but the best model was perfected by the 707 and hasn't reallly changed since.

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Boeing and NASA have been testing the blended-wing-body design for a while. Hopefully, we'll see these airplanes at commercial airports someday.






Thanks for sharing! I'd never seen this before, but I'm a huge fan of what I'm seeing.
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Boeing and NASA have been testing the blended-wing-body design for a while. Hopefully, we'll see these airplanes at commercial airports someday.
I can't see one of these blended wing designed jetliners using existing gate ramps at airports. Wide body jetliners today require the space of two smaller aircraft, these monsters might require space of three smaller aircraft.

Efficiency on the ground at the gates should count as much as it does in the air.
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I can't see one of these blended wing designed jetliners using existing gate ramps at airports. Wide body jetliners today require the space of two smaller aircraft, these monsters might require space of three smaller aircraft.

Efficiency on the ground at the gates should count as much as it does in the air.
Maybe they could go with a smaller design in the 300-passenger class instead of an 800-passenger monster depicted in those renderings.
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Boeing and NASA have been testing the blended-wing-body design for a while. Hopefully, we'll see these airplanes at commercial airports someday.


intriguing.

i like the placement of those 3 giant turbofans above and at the rear of the aircraft. it should make for a quieter cabin and it also decreases the chances of sucking runway/tarmac debris into and engine. i think it would also likely decrease bird/engine strikes as well.

and the multiple passenger sections/aisles seem like they would aid circulation during boarding/deplaning.

the biggest drawback looks like no more window seats. i love window seats.
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here's a little more speculation on the future form of flying -- pretty funky design:





http://www.cnn.com/videos/tech/2015/...s-nws-orig.cnn
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^ dear god.

that does not look like anything based in the realities of aerodynamics.

it looks like fanboy art.
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Being the right age to have been able to fly on older types like the 727 and MD-80 / 90 aircraft I notice a world of difference on newer planes like the A380, A350 and 787. The 787 is amazing from a technological standpoint, but improvements in passenger comfort are more notable. PTV's, USB chargers in every seat, mood lighting, and more so on the A380 and A350 the sound insulation is excellent and one can sleep much more easily than on a loud older plane.
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^ dear god.

that does not look like anything based in the realities of aerodynamics.

it looks like fanboy art.

would it help if i told you the wings flapped?





they don't, of course.

i do like the outside-of-the-box thinking on it, though. and the idea of it being 75% quieter than current aircraft is a big plus.

another image of the AWWA-QG Progress Eagle, as it's called:

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one can sleep much more easily than on a loud older plane.
sleep?

on an air plane?

the only thing, and i mean the only thing that has ever allowed me to "sleep" on an airplane is an ambien and a glass of wine.

noise is one of the very last reasons why i have trouble sleeping on a plane. i mean, it's cool that the A350 and A380 are super-quiet (i have yet to fly on either type), but nothing short of full blown beds will ever make it easy for me to fall asleep on a plane without drugs. and i sure as shit don't make first-class cash in my line of work.
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another image of the AWWA-QG Progress Eagle, as it's called:

it still looks very much like a fantastical design exercise, not an engineering solution like the boeing/nasa blended wing body shown earlier in the thread.
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I've never flown on a 747. They barely seem to be in service anymore.
I see them land and O'Hare all the time.
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This was one of Boeing's concepts before they decided on the 787 design. I think the reasoning they scrapped it was that even though it would make flights something like 15% quicker airlines wanted the better fuel economy and range of 787.

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Would you like a window, aisle, aisle, aisle, aisle, aisle, aisle, aisle, aisle, aisle, aisle, aisle or aisle seat?
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This was one of Boeing's concepts before they decided on the 787 design. I think the reasoning they scrapped it was that even though it would make flights something like 15% quicker airlines wanted the better fuel economy and range of 787.

that's cool, it's got a SR-71 blackbird kind of vibe to it.

it seems like fuel economy is going to trump speed for the foreseeable future, at least until there is some breakthrough in propulsion.
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I read about the concept of joining 2 cylindrical fuselages side by side back in the late 90's. Here's an article about that concept.

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Double bubble aircraft design would use 70 percent less fuel

The D “double bubble” – a design concept presented to NASA by an MIT led research team which promises a 70 percent improvement in fuel economy, reduced noise, lower nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions and the ability to use shorter runways.

The D double bubble design uses long, skinny wings, a small tail and - hence the name - replaces the traditional cylindrical fuselage with a two partial cylinders placed side-by-side. The engines sit at the rear of the fuselage rather than on the wing to make use of a technique called Boundary Layer Ingestion (BLI). This approach sees slower moving air from the wake of the fuselage enter the engines, resulting in less fuel consumption for the same amount of thrust. The downside is slower speeds and more stress on the engine.

The result is a plane that travels 10 percent slower than the Boeing 737 it is designed to replace, but according to lead designer of the D series Mark Drela, the longer flight times would be partially mitigated by the ability to load and unload the plane faster. Another advantage is that it could also be used with current airport infrastructure.

Along with the 180-passenger D series, the research team has also produced a blueprint for a much larger (350 seat) H series that would be equivalent to a Boeing 777. This design uses the BLI technique and a wider fuselage with an aerodynamic triangular-shaped hybrid wing body.

A second version of the D series has also been put forward. This design doesn't save as much fuel (around 50 percent) but is a more viable near term alternative because it that could be built using current jet technology and materials.

The MIT led project is the result of a $2.1 million contract awarded by NASA in 2008 as part of an aeronautics research program aimed at putting greener planes in the sky by 2035. Boeing, GE Aviation and Northrop Grumman are also taking part in the program.

The team from the MIT's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics was headed by principal investigator Ed Greitzer and Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation and Pratt & Whitney also contributed.

NASA is expected to announce a second phase of the program in coming months.
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