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With a radical new shape, its designers believe it will use 25 percent less fuel that today's planes and be no louder than a car driving down your street.
The research team from the Cambridge-MIT Institute, a collaboration between the two universities and backed by the British government, have spent the last seven years working on a "silent" jet, focussing on noise reduction as the primary design point.
The result is a design unlike the cylindrical fuselage of today's passenger aircraft that it is hoped will be 25 decibels quieter. Resembling a single flying wing, the jet, called the SAX-40, incorporates a "blended-wing" design that smoothly blends the conventional wings of a plane into a wide tailless body.
Originally posted by ShatteredSkies
What's so revolutionary about it?
It looks like a Boeing BWB with some aesthetics.
Shattered OUT...
Originally posted by ShatteredSkies
Well I just think that this concept is something that can easily be achievable by the Boeing BWB. The Boeing BWB prototype also has many efficiences too.
Originally posted by Ghost01
It's a nice design, but I wouldn't exactally call it "New". This kind of wing/body blending has been around for years.