TU Delft Flying-V concept airliner - photo

[Altair]

TU Delft Flying-V concept airliner.

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Previously:

Northrop YB-49 Flying Wing - photo and video
Inside a 1930s passenger plane - photo
Concorde jet droop nose - GIF, video, and photo
Part bouncing around inside airliner jet engine - GIF
Boeing 377 Stratocruiser - photos
MD-80 deploying thrust reversers - GIF
Boeing 777 wing flexibility test to failure - video

[Duke_of_URL]

There's a saying in the aviation world - "If it looks ugly, it probably won't fly well."

[IntheGroove]

With enough power you can make a barn door fly...

[schuylergrace]

They actually have a large flying scale model of it, and the model flys reasonably well. It's just a variant of a flying wing, which (theoretically) should be the most efficient fixed-wing flying form. We're just used to seeing cigar tubes with wings, so they look "right."

[marksbug]

are those "scale" models also weight scaled?

[Scotsman Hosie]

They actually have a large flying scale model of it, and the model flys reasonably well. It's just a variant of a flying wing, which (theoretically) should be the most efficient fixed-wing flying form. We're just used to seeing cigar tubes with wings, so they look "right."

They're apparently making those 'wings' thick enough, to seat passengers in. And, unless they're planning on the passengers 'crawling' in, those wings will be like having 2 cigar tubes, flying sideways through the air. I cant wrap my head around the aerodynamics of a wing that thick, or the power of thrust needed to fly with all the extra 'drag' those wings could represent. (Just my thoughts.)