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jivatmanx on Oct 12, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Airplanes can't get much more efficient

This Kickstarter project with a completely new, futuristic looking airplane design seems fairly confident that there is.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/launchsynergy/synergy-ai...

(I'll have to defer commenting to someone with knowledge of physics than me)

callmebison on Oct 12, 2012 [–]

http://www.fzt.haw-hamburg.de/pers/Scholz/Airport2030/Airpor... reckons a ~10% efficiency increase, but the wing is twice as heavy!

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