The flying wing is now seventy years old, Jack had even designed a passenger wing although it was never approved. With the addition of computer aids it may be possible.
It's easily possible. It just needs a will and investment. Bear in mind this is not a flying wing - they never said that. It's a blended wing. Whole different beast and it will still have vertical stabilisers.
It's the future for air transport. New CFRP materials make the cylinder pressure vessel much less required now. The pressure differential on a plane from MSL to FL 40 is peanuts in structural strength terms if you are using materials which are strenght/weight 300% stronger. The wrong G-load assumptions during a turn just reveals a complete ignorance of how planes do a coordinated turn. Planes bank so nearly all the load is vertical. The main ingress and egress is obvious. With the engines at the top of the body, the main wide access is from the rear, just like C130 or C17. But other doors will be forward, that's not an issue. It's not a flying wing, it's a blended wing.
It is the future of aviation but for that style of aircraft you shouldn't have a sky bridge. You should actually have more of a tunnel and towards the end you can have stairs that lead up to the aircraft. This would be beneficial for loading cargo as well as loading people. And I've been saying this was the platform of the future for the longest time. #iscreenshot I retain all rights to my intellectual property. Which includes the right to sue for damages such as algorithm modifications or deletion
The biggest issue with blended wing body is _turning_ the plane in flight. They're going to have to figure out how to turn the plane in almost a flat manner without a lot of banking, because otherwise passengers sitting further away from the centerline of the plane will experience some very unpleasant motions.
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Blended Wing Body feels a but like fusion power: perpetually 20yrs away...
It'd be great for cargo, but not so great for passengers. Few windows, and it'd be a rough ride sitting so far from the planes centerline.
If they can lower ticket cost then I’ll fly on it
It's the latest idea of mine for a flying aircraft carrier, holding fighters, 15-27 of them, around the size of the Tejas from India.
The flying wing is now seventy years old, Jack had even designed a passenger wing although it was never approved. With the addition of computer aids it may be possible.
It's easily possible. It just needs a will and investment. Bear in mind this is not a flying wing - they never said that. It's a blended wing. Whole different beast and it will still have vertical stabilisers.
It's the future for air transport. New CFRP materials make the cylinder pressure vessel much less required now. The pressure differential on a plane from MSL to FL 40 is peanuts in structural strength terms if you are using materials which are strenght/weight 300% stronger. The wrong G-load assumptions during a turn just reveals a complete ignorance of how planes do a coordinated turn. Planes bank so nearly all the load is vertical. The main ingress and egress is obvious. With the engines at the top of the body, the main wide access is from the rear, just like C130 or C17. But other doors will be forward, that's not an issue. It's not a flying wing, it's a blended wing.
It is the future of aviation but for that style of aircraft you shouldn't have a sky bridge. You should actually have more of a tunnel and towards the end you can have stairs that lead up to the aircraft. This would be beneficial for loading cargo as well as loading people. And I've been saying this was the platform of the future for the longest time.
#iscreenshot I retain all rights to my intellectual property. Which includes the right to sue for damages such as algorithm modifications or deletion
117 years of flying wings and yet... no passenger aerocraft to date
The biggest issue with blended wing body is _turning_ the plane in flight. They're going to have to figure out how to turn the plane in almost a flat manner without a lot of banking, because otherwise passengers sitting further away from the centerline of the plane will experience some very unpleasant motions.
Commercial aircraft design needs to spend way more attention to passenger ingress and egress.
Boeing needs work
A massive increase in cost for a marginal increase in fuel efficiency.