Aurora Advances MIT’s D8 Airliner Concept With Demo Plans

Credit: Aurora Flight Sciences
Bringing twin-aisle convenience to the short-/medium-range airliner market has long been a vision, but the aerodynamic and structural challenges of a wider fuselage are hard to overcome with available technology. An unconventional configuration called the D8 may hold the key, its developers believe...

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