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Stunning V-shaped plane takes flight for first time in boost to future of air-travel
Daily Star UK ^ | 22:14, 5 SEP 2020 | Tom Bull

Posted on 09/05/2020 5:55:24 PM PDT by BenLurkin

The fuel efficient airplane is hoped to be a solution for the future of airplanes.

Passengers could one travel in the wings of Flying V planes, which is designed with the cabin, cargo holds and fuel tanks placed along two Vs.

Experts tested a 22.5kg and a 3-metre scale model of the futuristic plane, developed by researchers at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.

The successful flight will be a major boost for the hotel anticipated aircraft as it move into the next development stages.

Dutch airline KLM agreed to fund development of the V-shaped aircraft, which could be the norm one day.


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TOPICS: Travel
KEYWORDS: aviation; flyingv; klm
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To: Fai Mao

That’s true.


61 posted on 09/05/2020 9:20:28 PM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: null and void

The ones made in Asia...never mind.


62 posted on 09/05/2020 9:55:18 PM PDT by JohnnyP (Thinking is hard work (I stole that from Rush).)
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To: BenLurkin; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ..
Experts tested a 22.5kg and a 3-metre scale model of the futuristic plane, developed by researchers at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.
We'll be moving great distances on hyperloops -- not on new kinds of planes, and not on Elon's rockets.

63 posted on 09/05/2020 10:42:36 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Bon of Babble

Hotly?


64 posted on 09/05/2020 10:49:59 PM PDT by Does so (KYLE Rittenhouse neutralized three FELONS! ("Lefty" included).)
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To: SunkenCiv

hyperloops ... isn’t that how UFO’s travel without sound or wind resistance?


65 posted on 09/06/2020 4:35:11 AM PDT by GOPJ (Black NFL players build mansions in white world to escape blacks - then kneel for their guilt.)
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To: BenLurkin

bernulli lifting fuselage concept from the 50’s?


66 posted on 09/06/2020 5:42:09 AM PDT by camle (keep and open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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To: Ozark Tom; Songcraft

OK, thanks for info.

BUT

The question (unasked) was

What do you call a BOOMERANG that doesn’t come back.

I am on the ‘Schiff List’ with picture up and persona non grata in ALL Outback Steakhouses because I ask that question every time...<:<:<:


67 posted on 09/06/2020 5:58:35 AM PDT by xrmusn (6/98"HRC is the Grandmother that lures Hansel & Gretel to the pot")
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To: Does so

I think you’re correct. Other pointed out how poorly written the article is, including many typos.


68 posted on 09/06/2020 6:03:16 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Baby!)
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To: null and void

I dunno, but if you put red high heels on the vertical stabilizers, it’d be much more interesting.


69 posted on 09/06/2020 7:13:45 AM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest)
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To: Buttons12
It looks like a Microsoft Office assistant

Never get me in one of those. Rebooting in mid-air has gotta be a b**ch.

70 posted on 09/06/2020 7:17:09 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: PLMerite

Hmmmmm, add antistatic spikes at the base of those fins, and paint the fins and spikes red...


71 posted on 09/06/2020 7:20:18 AM PDT by null and void (The Left weaponizes everything in the service of tyranny.)
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To: Yossarian
There's also the pesky matter of just where those overhead jet engines go in the event of a hard landing or mount failure.

Overhead mounted engines, especially behind a large wing design like that, are at risk for ice coming off the wings and into the engines.

72 posted on 09/06/2020 9:27:13 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: BenLurkin

Great views and practically no chance of survival in a rough landing. Everything is a trade off, risk vs. reward, eh?


73 posted on 09/06/2020 11:30:33 AM PDT by wildbill (The older I get, the less 'life in prison" means to me)
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