SINGAPORE, Feb 11 (Reuters) - Airbus AIR.PA on Tuesday unveiled a curvaceous plane design that blen
SINGAPORE, Feb 11 (Reuters) – Airbus AIR.PA on Tuesday unveiled a curvaceous plane design that blends wing and physique, designed to slash carbon emissions by some 20%.
The European planemaker has been finishing up flight checks of a 3.2-metre-wide (10.5 toes) know-how demonstrator, code-named Maveric, at a secret location in central France since final yr. It lifted the veil on the design on the Singapore Airshow.
The idea of a “blended wing physique” design has been round for the reason that 1940s and led to the U.S. B-2 bomber, in addition to the X-48 analysis challenge between Boeing and NASA a decade in the past.
Such plane are complicated to regulate however produce much less aerodynamic drag, making them extra environment friendly to fly.
Planemakers are revisiting such designs because the passenger jet trade tries to decide to extra environmentally pleasant plane.
“We consider it’s excessive time now to push this know-how additional and examine what it brings to us,”…