efficient aircraft Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 06 Jan 2015 16:10:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 NASA’s “Flying Wing” Aircraft Prototype Twice as Efficient https://www.greenoptimistic.com/nasa-flying-wing-efficient-20130124/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/nasa-flying-wing-efficient-20130124/#respond Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:20:16 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=31998 While aviation engineers have long known that a “flying wing” aircraft would be more efficient than the traditional tubular fuselage aircraft we see today, the ability to control them in flight has prevented them from making any progress in commercialization. Since aircraft need to take off and land, requiring control at both low speed and […]

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