Posted on 01/19/2023 8:07:30 AM PST by Red Badger
Boeing's more fuel-efficient airline design won an award from NASA on Wednesday, as the agency plans to invest $425 million in the project. Photo from NASA
Jan. 18 (UPI) -- Boeing's sustainable flight demonstrator project won an award Wednesday from NASA, as the company aims to roll out green single-aisle airliners by the end of the decade.
The space agency will invest $425 million to help Boeing build a more fuel-efficient airline. Boeing and its partners will contribute $725 million in funding, with plans to begin testing the new aircraft by the late 2020's.
"Since the beginning, NASA has been with you when you fly. NASA has dared to go farther, faster, higher. And in doing so, NASA has made aviation more sustainable and dependable. It is in our DNA," said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson.
"It's our goal that NASA's partnership with Boeing to produce and test a full-scale demonstrator will help lead to future commercial airliners that are more fuel efficient, with benefits to the environment, the commercial aviation industry, and to passengers worldwide. If we are successful, we may see these technologies in planes that the public takes to the skies in the 2030s."
According to NASA, single-aisle aircraft account for nearly half of worldwide aviation emissions. The new Boeing aircraft is more fuel-efficient because of its extra-long thin wings, which create less drag.
The new Boeing aircrafts could go into use by the 2030s. The United States is currently aiming to achieve net-zero carbon aviation emissions by 2050. The International Civil Aviation Organization also has the same goal.
"NASA is working toward an ambitious goal of developing game-changing technologies to reduce aviation energy use and emissions over the coming decades toward an aviation community goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050," said Bob Pearce, NASA associate administrator for the Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate.
Aviation PING!.......................
I assume the main gain here is that the top of structure wings allow for them to be thinner as the structural attachments are now handled by the supports, rather than being integrated into the wing itself the wing, and therefor produce less drag.
Who knew the flying boxcar design would get applied to planes on this scale.
High wing design provides more lift thank conventional wing design.
Also provides a more stability, which is just fine for a commercial aircraft (not a fighter).
Large turbofan engines are already very fuel efficient, but new materials, etc, will help eek out some additional efficiencies.
Everything here makes good monetary sense except the stupid comment about getting to net zero. That wont happen unless we just stop traveling.
Also more lifting surface................
Boeing can pay for their own stuff....
Looks like it will make a kickin’ private jet....
Just don’t fly it in winter.
Those seats staring at the loud underwing engine and strut are going to be real desirable.
What is NASA doing sticking their nose into this? And shouldn't we be at all concerned with the failing FAA computer technology?
How does a maybe 5% improvement in fuel consumption make something “sustainable”? If we’re were going to run out of fuel in 100 years, this improvement means we get an extra 5 years before running out. That is not truly “sustainable.” It’s a small life extension for man.
They’ll be electric..................😜😉
It’s middle class welfare for engineers and technicians and fabricators. Not all bad.
Air Force One......................
High wing IS conventional ... for military transport.
With the wings on top, they may be able to use even higher bypass ratios without doing stupid things like making oval intakes.
This may well be a good idea. The wing loading will be much higher than has historically been normal for commercial aircraft. They’ll have to account for that in both design and maintenance.
“Net zero” is just bullcrap.
The first “A” in NASA is for Aeronautics.
Fixing the FAA is not Boeing’s or NASA’s problem. And we can do more than one thing at a time.
wi a wing cord like that, it’s all engine keeping it aloft...
like to see the glide ratio
“That is not truly “sustainable.”
I detect the use of math in your calculations.
Now you know why math is racist.
The elites do not want you analyzing their latest scams.
Oh, O.K. I thought their primary focus was on diversity.
Yeah, those skinny wings just scream “overload me!”
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