whether those are biofuels or not . And if we can’t replace hydrocarbon fuels for air travel in the near-or mid-term, then surely we could find a way to get people to their destinations while releasing less CO2 into the atmosphere.
Airbus thinks that a BWB design should be about 150 percent more fuel efficient than a conventional single-aisle twin-engined airliner using the same engines. If that number sounds familiar, that’s because it’s the same fuel savings predicted by another BWB design we explored recently, the Flying V designed by the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in the Netherlands.
MAVERIC is a quite different design to the Flying V, which should mean even greater interior volume. How to best use that space is something Airbus is also exploring, although that’s being done full size and (in silico) rather than with action figures and a scale model. (Listing image by Airbus) (Read More)
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