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1 posted on 09/05/2020 5:55:24 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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Maybe more fuel efficient and thats great

But i see a lot of downsides, namely a much bigger footprint and target posibly a lot more places for airframe fatigue


2 posted on 09/05/2020 5:58:11 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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Passengers could one travel in the wings...

Doesn't anybody proofread anymore?

3 posted on 09/05/2020 5:58:49 PM PDT by Veggie Todd (Voltaire: "Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool".)
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I’ve seen this concept before and it looks good.


4 posted on 09/05/2020 5:59:01 PM PDT by Doc91678 (Doc91678)
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Looks like it was made by a kid on a PC.


5 posted on 09/05/2020 5:59:15 PM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: BenLurkin; Army Air Corps; SkyDancer

Ping!


6 posted on 09/05/2020 6:00:45 PM PDT by KC_Lion
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Looks like a flying wing form wwll? What is the “V” shape?
10 posted on 09/05/2020 6:08:31 PM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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“Experts tested a 22.5kg and a 3-metre scale model...”
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Made me think of: “Flight Of The Phoenix”


11 posted on 09/05/2020 6:08:53 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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Boeing has explored a similar concept and may still be doing so. At least two major problems are evacuation times and airport design of ramps and jetways.


13 posted on 09/05/2020 6:09:49 PM PDT by SES1066 (Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
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What does “hotel anticipated aircraft” mean?


15 posted on 09/05/2020 6:11:43 PM PDT by Bon of Babble (In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Baby!)
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Best to book a center line seat if you’re susceptible to motion sickness...


16 posted on 09/05/2020 6:12:26 PM PDT by elteemike (Light is faster than sound; that's why so many people appear bright until you hear them speak.)
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I gotta be able to see out the window, get there cheap, and a want a sky waitress in a miniskirt ... everything else is bullshit


19 posted on 09/05/2020 6:21:02 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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It looks exactly like the one Boeing was working on.


22 posted on 09/05/2020 6:27:01 PM PDT by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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Is this a story from 1995? Boeing has been workkng on the Blended Wing Body (BWB) concept for 25 years.


25 posted on 09/05/2020 6:32:57 PM PDT by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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The picture artists' conception makes me think of Cross-eyed Mary, Jethro Tull.
31 posted on 09/05/2020 6:47:38 PM PDT by Mr.FixIt (Ethanol: Growing in four months what the U.S.A. burns in one day)
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*ping*


33 posted on 09/05/2020 6:51:25 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Want Stalinazism More ? PLUGS-WHORE 2020 !)
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Does it spin around, and come right back to where it started from, like a boomerang?


       

34 posted on 09/05/2020 6:51:37 PM PDT by Songcraft
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This type of design is many years old. Seating passengers that far from the centerline makes for an unpleasant flight.


35 posted on 09/05/2020 6:52:54 PM PDT by Moonman62 (http://www.freerepublic.com/~moonman62/)
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This will be an airframe stress nightmare.
I am afraid that this airframe, though innovative, will split in flight, right down the centerline.


38 posted on 09/05/2020 6:58:40 PM PDT by Terry L Smith
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I don’t if this will “fly,” but I’d love to see the aerospace/airline industries get back to innovation. In the 20 year span between say 1948 and 1968, things improved by leaps and bounds. And then stagnation. Commercial air travel has basically been stuck in the same place for more than 50 years.

Of course, I know that there have been technical improvements in avionics, autopilot etc, but from the passenger point of view how is flying now improved from 1970? Let me think. Coach & business class on some planes are much fancier with personal pods and makeshift beds, etc. And that does improve the experience if you can afford it.. What else? Smoking is banned, so no more being stuck next to an old lady and her Virginia Slims for a whole flight, I guess. Anything else? I’m running out here.


39 posted on 09/05/2020 7:00:22 PM PDT by irishjuggler
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Racist plane, because "white privilege" & Trump! Should be painted Black, and flown backwards ("A" for ANTIFA)!

/sarc

41 posted on 09/05/2020 7:08:53 PM PDT by Who is John Galt? ('Urban Dictionary' - a website of the urban dicks, by the urban dicks, and for the urban dicks.)
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