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    New Airbus A30x Planes Look Straight Out of Coruscant Skies

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    Image of MaWeiTao MaWeiTao
    09/22/09

    In reply to New Airbus A30x Planes Look Straight Out of Coruscant Skies
    I'm always enthusiastic about unconventional designs, but Boeing's Sonic Cruiser concept, which eventually turned into the conventional 787, was more impressive.

    Having to occasionally travel to Asia I wish someone would seriously start working on a new supersonic aircraft. It seems for now we're left with companies like Gulfstream to build supersonic business jets. Hopefully that will eventually spur some real progress.
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    Image of Ypoknons Ypoknons
    09/22/09

    In reply to New Airbus A30x Planes Look Straight Out of Coruscant Skies
    So what's the planned advantages of all these new designs? The current airline shape been around so long because it's been working for a long time.....
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    Image of Jeb_Hoge Jeb_Hoge
    09/23/09

    @Ypoknons: Except for the Sonic Cruiser lookalike, not much. In terms of overall utility, passenger comfort, and functionality, the common airliner design is hard to beat. The real innovations are in airflow management (laminar flow wings, etc.), materials that are stronger and lighter, and improved engine efficiency. I'd give up a pinky toe for an actual airline-employed Sonic Cruiser, but I don't see it happening on a commercial scale. Maybe Gulfstream or Bombardier can pull it off in a smaller size.
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    Image of F1Morgan F1Morgan
    09/21/09

    In reply to New Airbus A30x Planes Look Straight Out of Coruscant Skies
    NASA says the future of air travel is with aircraft that have the body inside a giant wing, all together, to lower the fuel consumption greatly.The only problem is the people will have no windows out the side, but they say monitors connected to cameras outside could simulate it, I love the nose cam on the JAL flights I take and it has updates on navigation on the monitors, make improvements on these and I don't give a crap if theres a window. Anyway the people sitting in those center rows have no windows....
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    Image of F1Morgan F1Morgan
    09/21/09


    @F1Morgan: Its called a Blended Wing
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    Image of F1Morgan F1Morgan
    09/21/09


    @F1Morgan: Outside View
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    09/21/09

    In reply to New Airbus A30x Planes Look Straight Out of Coruscant Skies
    I like how the second one on the top row has freaking propellers at the back.
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    09/21/09

    In reply to New Airbus A30x Planes Look Straight Out of Coruscant Skies

    Why do companies bother with pointlessly futuristic designs when all of them will be at least half a century behind this?
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    Image of knyghtryda knyghtryda
    09/21/09

    @Pessimippopotamus:
    Because that was loud, expensive, and broke down often. It was a great idea that came too early.
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    Image of Pessimippopotamus Pessimippopotamus
    09/21/09

    @knyghtryda: What's to say that all these renderings wouldn't result in the same?
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    Image of IN THE FACE! IN THE FACE!
    09/21/09

    @Pessimippopotamus: The three (or more) orders of magnitude increase in the regulatory and testing requirements between then and now...

    Not sayin the system is perfect now, still far from it I'm sure, but think of all the air disasters since the concord was introduced...
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    Image of wagnerrp wagnerrp
    09/21/09

    In reply to New Airbus A30x Planes Look Straight Out of Coruscant Skies
    Why are they going with forward swept wings? The advantage of forward swept wings is that your wing root is highly loaded, and is the start of the stall. Control surfaces on a rear swept wing get caught in the wake of the stall.

    If an airliner gets into a stall condition, maintaining roll control is the least of their worries.
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    Image of MarcusMaximus MarcusMaximus
    09/21/09

    @wagnerrp: Because it looks cool?
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    09/21/09

    @wagnerrp: Fuck engineering. In this world, it's all about image.
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    Image of The Lab The Lab
    09/21/09

    @wagnerrp: Your comment is making me wonder how much actual design went into these, besides just making them look great.

    The u-shape wings look kinda awesome.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    09/21/09

    @wagnerrp: Because these are just pretty pictures to prevent people from falling asleep? Airliners 15 years from now will probably look a lot like today's airliners. Think about how incremental airliner design changes have been from 1994 to 2009. Do we have any reason to believe that the next 15 years will be any different?
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    09/21/09

    @wagnerrp: Maybe finally us poor shlubs who get stuck behind the mid-section emergency exit will have a nice view of the ground. Let the jerks in the front deal with that big sweeping wing getting in the way of the scenery!
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    09/21/09

    In reply to New Airbus A30x Planes Look Straight Out of Coruscant Skies
    This is great. As all of us know, 15-year advance renderings have an extremely high probability of making it into production. The pics make it real!
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_RockinLabCoat GitEmSteveDave_RockinLabCoat
    09/21/09

    In reply to New Airbus A30x Planes Look Straight Out of Coruscant Skies
    Will this also come equipped with Aero-Mech Droids, which can repair the plane in flight, if you come under attack from a Sith Infiltrator?
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    09/21/09


    @GitEmSteveDave_SomeAssemblyRequired: Yeah we don't need things crawling about on the airplane midflight. Remember how things turned out for this guy?
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    09/21/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: Ack! That episode creeps me out.
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    Image of Xeno Xeno
    09/21/09

    In reply to New Airbus A30x Planes Look Straight Out of Coruscant Skies
    I wonder if they'll continue to insist on using those crazy loud actuators. I swear Airbus' have more whirs and clicks and any other craft in history.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_RockinLabCoat GitEmSteveDave_RockinLabCoat
    09/21/09

    @Xeno: Those are actually the Service Aero-Mech Droids you are hearing.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    09/21/09


    @Xeno: I was pretty suspect of Airbus when they released this very realistic artist's rendering of the actuator system.
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    Image of Noobs-R-Us Noobs-R-Us
    09/21/09

    In reply to New Airbus A30x Planes Look Straight Out of Coruscant Skies
    Yea, I don't want to die.
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    Image of Complexified Complexified
    06/05/09

    In reply to Inside the $485-Million Airbus A380 Flying Palace
    Mine is bigger that yours. That is all.
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    Image of d_r_e d_r_e
    06/05/09

    @Blend Crysis First:


    That just about says it all really.

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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    06/05/09

    In reply to Inside the $485-Million Airbus A380 Flying Palace
    Has no escape pod

    Has no cool computer lab with superfluous monitors and scantily clad lab workers

    Has no shark tank

    Has no proper game room for death sport laser tag

    Has no go-kart track

    Has no shark tank

    Has no droid servants

    Has no on-board strip club

    Has no shark tank

    Has no shark tank

    Has no shark tank!
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    Image of Cordfucious of Tech Clan Cordfucious of Tech Clan
    06/05/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: You can't call yourself a prince without a Shark Tank. Didnt all the early Bond villians have one....
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    Image of Jestermeister Jestermeister
    06/05/09

    In reply to Inside the $485-Million Airbus A380 Flying Palace
    Just out of curiosity, does anyone know if there's anything in the Koran about living a humble life or something like that? I'm wondering if all these palaces and insanely overboard luxury items go against any fundamental Islamic tenets.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    06/05/09

    @Jestermeister: Being Saudi Arabian doesn't mean you have to be an Islamic fundamentalist.
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    Image of Cordfucious of Tech Clan Cordfucious of Tech Clan
    06/05/09

    @Jestermeister: they same the same thing about Christianity and the Bible....so what does that say about America and the Right Wing who don't want their wealth spread around....


    See how silly that sounds..


    @Hello Mister Walrus: Being American doesn't make you a raving Evangelical theocratic either...LOL

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    Image of Mike Zuniga: That was Unexpected Mike Zuniga: That was Unexpected
    06/05/09

    In reply to Inside the $485-Million Airbus A380 Flying Palace
    It's things like this that make me wish that some miracle fuel would come and save us from this bullshit, even though all forms of alternative energy kinda suck.
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    Image of d_r_e d_r_e
    06/05/09

    @Mike Zuniga:


    Sadly, even if we found a cheap and efficient fuel that did no harm to the environment, was easily available for everyone, and extremely cheap to produce ... they'd still charge up the fucking ass for it.

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    Image of Visionsguy02 Visionsguy02
    06/05/09

    In reply to Inside the $485-Million Airbus A380 Flying Palace
    So I see this is the reason gas is going back up so I see what the good ol Usa is buying now. Sigh
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    Image of Jesustron Jesustron
    06/05/09

    @Visionsguy02:


    umm...this USA isnt buying this. RTFA.

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    Image of Visionsguy02 Visionsguy02
    06/05/09

    @Jesustron: Well the American people are buying it with all the oil that we consume that continues to make these people richer and richer
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    Image of Jesustron Jesustron
    06/05/09

    @Visionsguy02:


    This is coming from the guy with a gaudy Italian sports car as his avatar.


    Don't back pedal and pretend like you actually read the article before you posted.

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    Image of d_r_e d_r_e
    06/05/09

    @Jesustron:


    Get him!

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    Image of Charles Hamilton Charles Hamilton
    06/05/09

    @Visionsguy02: I would be happy to consume our own oil, if a certain political party would stop getting in the way of it.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    06/05/09

    @Charles Hamilton: Are you really willing to pay for $10 a gallon oil just so the US doesn't need to import it?
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