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| Subject: Airbus unveils 'Maveric' blended wing body plane design after secret flight tests Tue Feb 11, 2020 7:15 pm | |
| Airbus on Tuesday unveiled a curvaceous aircraft design that blends wing and body, designed to slash carbon emissions by some 20 per cent.
The European planemaker has been carrying out flight tests of a 3.2-metre-wide technology demonstrator, code-named Maveric, at a secret location in central France since last year. It lifted the veil on the design at the Singapore Airshow.
The concept of a "blended wing body" design has been around since the 1940s and led to the US B-2 bomber, as well as the X-48 research project between Boeing and NASA a decade ago.
https://www.traveller.com.au/airbus-unveils-maveric-blended-wing-body-plane-design-after-secret-flight-tests-h1lqmv |
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