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MIT Designs Aircraft That Uses 70% Less Fuel Than Conventional Planes

Posted by Soulskill on from the in-other-news-aircraft-refuelers-laid-off dept.

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."

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  1. So Lets See, by rshol · · Score: -1, Troll

    They've built one of these things, flown it around and measured its fuel consumption. No you say? Then all there are artists' renderings of speculative aircraft that on some computer models appear to perform in the manner stated. Nothing to see here, move along.

  2. Re:hmmm by h4rr4r · · Score: 1, Troll

    It would be about the first thing he did that I agreed with.

    Seems we got GWB3 no matter who we voted for last election.

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