Airlines and manufacturers are constantly striving for better fuel efficiency and are apparently leaving no stone unturned.
Why would Boeing design a mid-wing, twinjet, double-decker 747?
Breguet’s range equation is a cruel tyrant. The fuel-efficiency conscious airframe designer has only three levers — weight, thrust and aerodynamics — to pull, and yanking one often complicates things for the other two. At the concept stage, however, it still helps to tug upon one of Breguet’s levers, just to see what happens. So it appears with the Boeing design concept named “mid-wing aircraft”, which is revealed as a patent application publis…
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Sounds similar to the morphing of the B-50 into the C-97.
Sounds similar to the morphing of the B-50 into the C-97.