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MIT Designs Aircraft That Uses 70% Less Fuel Than Conventional Planes
greenrainbow writes "Today a team of researchers at MIT unveiled their design for an airplane that uses 70% less fuel than conventional aircraft. The MIT design comes thanks to a NASA-funded initiative to increase fuel efficiency, lower emissions, and allow planes to take off on shorter runways. The team accomplished all of NASA's set goals with their innovative D-series plane, lovingly referred to as the 'double bubble,' which has thinner, longer wings and a smaller tail, and engine placement at the rear of the plane instead of on the wings."
Why? NASA just got a budget increase and they finally killed off that worthless budget leach program. NASA might actually be able to afford some science now that the shuttle manufacturers welfare program has been ended.
RTFA. MIT was one one of several teams working on new designs, the others were all commercial airplane manufacturers, including Boeing.
I had a mechanics professor who graded that way. You always wanted to time finishing your test to be in the middle of the stack. At the top of the stack, he was pissed off that he was grading tests. Halfway through the stack, and halfway through the bottle of Jack, he was drunk and happy. By the bottom of the stack, he was pissed off that he was out of Jack, and was still grading tests.
I had a mechanics professor who graded that way. You always wanted to time finishing your test to be in the middle of the stack. At the top of the stack, he was pissed off that he was grading tests. Halfway through the stack, and halfway through the bottle of Jack, he was drunk and happy. By the bottom of the stack, he was pissed off that he was out of Jack, and was still grading tests.