This Flying-V Airliner Was Designed By A Student And It Will Use 20% Less Fuel
Air travel is one of the biggest factors when it comes to pollution. It is considered to be the most harmful traveling option and despite various claims to be “eco-friendly”, most aviation companies have a long way to go when it comes to sustainability. Currently, we are in such a position that the most sustainable way of traveling by plane is, well… not flying at all and instead, taking a train. But hopefully with today’s current technology, we will find new ways to save the environment and be able to travel. Engineers at the Delft University of Technology are working hard to make this possible.
The aerospace engineering team is working on a new airplane model that might change air travel for good
Image credits: Edwin Wallet, studio OSO
Dutch airliner company KLM is contributing to the research of this new airplane prototype that is being constructed at the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft).
The first prototype of this plane was conceptualized by TU Berlin student, Justus Benad
Justus created the concept for his project regarding potential aircraft designs for the future.
The aircraft is named after the iconic Gibson flying-v electric guitar
Iconic artists like Jimi Hendrix, Brian May, and Keith Richards used to play it.
It is believed that the plane would burn up to 20% less fuel
Which is a very important environmental factor considering current aviation contributes to around 2.5 percent of global CO2 emissions.
The first test flight is expected to happen this September and the actual plane should be released around the year 2040
The plane will be able to carry 314 passengers and they will be seated in the wings along with fuel tanks and cargo.
Watch the video to learn more about the design of this plane
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Share on FacebookJust like concept architecture & concept cars, only a very minute percentage will make it into real production. While this is a great idea, 20% less fuel is something the world could use right NOW. Unfortunately with a "supposed" timeline of 20 years(!!!!!)..... well, you know.... :-/ This offcourse being a good idea, it is highly likely within the coming 5 - 10 years this idea has been surpassed by numerous other more practical & actually feasible initiatives with better fuel reduction results. From a marketing & PR perspective this is just a brilliant & cheap manner spreading KLM innovation propaganda ;-)
There is a solution that can minimize the amount of fuel taken on board (less fuel on board - less heavy plane, saves the planet) - by weighing all the passengers and hand luggage and calculating based on that how much is needed. Quick way, easy enough, can be done NOW. (and please let smart people continue to think up more ways) - but.. was shot down because people do not want to be weighed and claimed privacy...
Load More Replies...This design introduces a whole lot of issues, not necessarily insurmountable, but serious none the less. Because of the distance the outermost passengers will be sitting from the roll center of the airplane, traditional airliner outmaneuvers and as a consequence landing, holding, missed approach patterns wouldn't work because the outermost passengers wouldn't experience rolls as a roll, they'd experience them as a drop or rise. By law a normal 30 degree roll for an airliner must be able to return to level attitude in 7 seconds during landing and 5 seconds during takeoff, 30 degrees in 5 seconds is a turn rate of 8 degrees per second. If you were at the back outside seat you would feel a roll like that as a fall or rise of nearly 17 feet at an average of 4.45 feet per second to comply, pretty violent and more then sufficient to make someone sick. Normal maneuvers wouldn't be so violent but they would still be extremely uncomfortable, new approach/departure paths would be needed.
It’d also make it so that balancing the load weight on the plane side to side is both more difficult and more important.
Load More Replies...The title is a little misleading. KLM, like all major airlines, is not in the airplane building business. I suspect that KLM is helping with research funding for modeling, and maybe even for scale prototypes for wind tunnel testing as part of the Engineering school research. The actual integrated plane design would need to be done by an entity with more comprehensive ability such as Airbus, Boeing, etc.
Why does this plane look like the plane in one of the best episodes of thunderbirds when hood tries to steal it?
First off, air travel is very fuel efficient as it is. Secondly , the video has no information, just more views of a computer model. Thirdly, the landing gear is absurdly tall for no apparent reason. Overall, this is a terrible piece with no real information just vague promises.
Nice idea in theory. But not a practical one. Just try to imagine the vertical accleleration of the most sidemost seat when aircraft like this banks when turning..
Passengers sitting together with JET FUEL and Cargo On the Wings? GULP!!!!
Simillar to Arado E.555. The frontal resistance will be very large. Fuel consumption will not be less only bigger. Such a piece is suitable for low speeds, the sash is large. It's not gonna happen. It's just a beautiful artistic vision. ..... d3i98ti-33...bc6512.jpg
Not viable. The farther from center you sit the more likely you'll experience motion sickness. Any turn is like a roller coaster with your seat raising or dropping 20 feet. That's why delta-wing airliners were abandoned in the 60s.
It looks similar to Northrop's Aviation's N-9M "Flying Wing," long range bomber flown in the late 40's but actually designed by Jack Northrop starting in 1929. This eventually lead to the design of Northrop's twin tailed, twin boom, all stressed metal skinned X--216H, monoplane and pioneered the development of an all wing aircraft would eventually lead the way to Northrop's development of the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber which debuted in 1989 in the US Air Force.
I bet you could get the fuel consumption down pretty quickly by charging passengers per weight unit, with a starting/standard ticket price at X weight and going up with additional weight. Why do we have to be so "understanding" when people who eat twice as much as I do also cause twice as much harm to the planet, incur much higher costs for medical issues, burn much more gas going anywhere in any kind of motorized vehicle, etc, etc, etc. THINK before you downvote, please.
Boeing already reduced fuel consuption in 20% with the 787 Dreamliner.
I want three engines. If one stops working that would still have two. This model if one stops working that is 50% less --- not good.
It is still going to use a hellacious amount of fuel, and put a hellacios amount of carbon dioxide in to the atmosphere.
It is a word, you’re good. It just isn’t a common one.
Load More Replies...I clicked because the design looks intriguing, but good lord is that headline horrible! I don't care how involved KLM is with the prototype, they're not the ones building it. Please BP, strive for accuracy, because we're already inundated with fake, manipulative writing everywhere we turn...
Dear engineers, increasing the face area of the plane would also increase the chances for the plane to collide into something mid air. Have you ever see how much damage a bird can do to a plane when they collide? Did you guys ever thought about it -.-?
Well this upsets the heck out of me. I'm in my 79's and by the time this beautiful Valane starts up I won't be around to enjoy the ride. Do you like my word for this beautiful creation?
A good day to líder político fue todo Air través, would be the use if the Zeppelin, outside the Hindenburg accident due to the use of hydrogen instead hellium, the concepto does hola itself for the freight transporte. Although slower than a plane the fuel economy is higher and best of all you can replace a good part with solar Energy.
No, da Vinci and the Wright brothers weren't bothered with convincing 'People'; they sketched and created flying machines that looked like the only successful examples they saw around them (birds and bats). So observing soaring eagles and flapping pigeons leading to fixed and flapping wing designs --- the fixed wing math being much simpler, and the flapping ones all failing. Others worked on the only designs the maths and mechanics were easy (hot air, zeppelins) though you could argue they look somewhat like jellyfish and zeppelins use the same bouyancy ideas. Helicopter and screw ideas coming from boat propulsion and hydraulic tech; in water much easier because of buoyancy and incompressibility.
Load More Replies...Just like concept architecture & concept cars, only a very minute percentage will make it into real production. While this is a great idea, 20% less fuel is something the world could use right NOW. Unfortunately with a "supposed" timeline of 20 years(!!!!!)..... well, you know.... :-/ This offcourse being a good idea, it is highly likely within the coming 5 - 10 years this idea has been surpassed by numerous other more practical & actually feasible initiatives with better fuel reduction results. From a marketing & PR perspective this is just a brilliant & cheap manner spreading KLM innovation propaganda ;-)
There is a solution that can minimize the amount of fuel taken on board (less fuel on board - less heavy plane, saves the planet) - by weighing all the passengers and hand luggage and calculating based on that how much is needed. Quick way, easy enough, can be done NOW. (and please let smart people continue to think up more ways) - but.. was shot down because people do not want to be weighed and claimed privacy...
Load More Replies...This design introduces a whole lot of issues, not necessarily insurmountable, but serious none the less. Because of the distance the outermost passengers will be sitting from the roll center of the airplane, traditional airliner outmaneuvers and as a consequence landing, holding, missed approach patterns wouldn't work because the outermost passengers wouldn't experience rolls as a roll, they'd experience them as a drop or rise. By law a normal 30 degree roll for an airliner must be able to return to level attitude in 7 seconds during landing and 5 seconds during takeoff, 30 degrees in 5 seconds is a turn rate of 8 degrees per second. If you were at the back outside seat you would feel a roll like that as a fall or rise of nearly 17 feet at an average of 4.45 feet per second to comply, pretty violent and more then sufficient to make someone sick. Normal maneuvers wouldn't be so violent but they would still be extremely uncomfortable, new approach/departure paths would be needed.
It’d also make it so that balancing the load weight on the plane side to side is both more difficult and more important.
Load More Replies...The title is a little misleading. KLM, like all major airlines, is not in the airplane building business. I suspect that KLM is helping with research funding for modeling, and maybe even for scale prototypes for wind tunnel testing as part of the Engineering school research. The actual integrated plane design would need to be done by an entity with more comprehensive ability such as Airbus, Boeing, etc.
Why does this plane look like the plane in one of the best episodes of thunderbirds when hood tries to steal it?
First off, air travel is very fuel efficient as it is. Secondly , the video has no information, just more views of a computer model. Thirdly, the landing gear is absurdly tall for no apparent reason. Overall, this is a terrible piece with no real information just vague promises.
Nice idea in theory. But not a practical one. Just try to imagine the vertical accleleration of the most sidemost seat when aircraft like this banks when turning..
Passengers sitting together with JET FUEL and Cargo On the Wings? GULP!!!!
Simillar to Arado E.555. The frontal resistance will be very large. Fuel consumption will not be less only bigger. Such a piece is suitable for low speeds, the sash is large. It's not gonna happen. It's just a beautiful artistic vision. ..... d3i98ti-33...bc6512.jpg
Not viable. The farther from center you sit the more likely you'll experience motion sickness. Any turn is like a roller coaster with your seat raising or dropping 20 feet. That's why delta-wing airliners were abandoned in the 60s.
It looks similar to Northrop's Aviation's N-9M "Flying Wing," long range bomber flown in the late 40's but actually designed by Jack Northrop starting in 1929. This eventually lead to the design of Northrop's twin tailed, twin boom, all stressed metal skinned X--216H, monoplane and pioneered the development of an all wing aircraft would eventually lead the way to Northrop's development of the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber which debuted in 1989 in the US Air Force.
I bet you could get the fuel consumption down pretty quickly by charging passengers per weight unit, with a starting/standard ticket price at X weight and going up with additional weight. Why do we have to be so "understanding" when people who eat twice as much as I do also cause twice as much harm to the planet, incur much higher costs for medical issues, burn much more gas going anywhere in any kind of motorized vehicle, etc, etc, etc. THINK before you downvote, please.
Boeing already reduced fuel consuption in 20% with the 787 Dreamliner.
I want three engines. If one stops working that would still have two. This model if one stops working that is 50% less --- not good.
It is still going to use a hellacious amount of fuel, and put a hellacios amount of carbon dioxide in to the atmosphere.
It is a word, you’re good. It just isn’t a common one.
Load More Replies...I clicked because the design looks intriguing, but good lord is that headline horrible! I don't care how involved KLM is with the prototype, they're not the ones building it. Please BP, strive for accuracy, because we're already inundated with fake, manipulative writing everywhere we turn...
Dear engineers, increasing the face area of the plane would also increase the chances for the plane to collide into something mid air. Have you ever see how much damage a bird can do to a plane when they collide? Did you guys ever thought about it -.-?
Well this upsets the heck out of me. I'm in my 79's and by the time this beautiful Valane starts up I won't be around to enjoy the ride. Do you like my word for this beautiful creation?
A good day to líder político fue todo Air través, would be the use if the Zeppelin, outside the Hindenburg accident due to the use of hydrogen instead hellium, the concepto does hola itself for the freight transporte. Although slower than a plane the fuel economy is higher and best of all you can replace a good part with solar Energy.
No, da Vinci and the Wright brothers weren't bothered with convincing 'People'; they sketched and created flying machines that looked like the only successful examples they saw around them (birds and bats). So observing soaring eagles and flapping pigeons leading to fixed and flapping wing designs --- the fixed wing math being much simpler, and the flapping ones all failing. Others worked on the only designs the maths and mechanics were easy (hot air, zeppelins) though you could argue they look somewhat like jellyfish and zeppelins use the same bouyancy ideas. Helicopter and screw ideas coming from boat propulsion and hydraulic tech; in water much easier because of buoyancy and incompressibility.
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