Engineers and designers are giving commercial aircraft a makeover, in a bid to make them faster, greener and more efficient.
Look up into the skies today at a passing aeroplane and the view is not that much different to the one you would have seen 60 years ago. Then and now, most airliners have two wings, a cigar-shaped fuselage and a trio of vertical and horizontal stabilizers at the tail. If it isn’t broke, the mantra has been, why fix it, particularly when your design needs to travel through the air at several hundred miles an hour packed with people.
See full Article: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20121106-radical-planes-take-shape
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