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EHM-1465 Dominic:
It actually looks very similar to a design from years ago, something like the Supersonic Cruiser I think it was called. It never got anywhere and I'd have to say that the author of this article is either joking or badly informed given some of the comments. I wonder why the quotation at the end about a big leap forward isn't attributed to anyone...?? :%

I don't imagine anyone at Airbus is too worried (about this anyway ;D)

EHM-1703 Philip:
If this story interests you, have a look at the arguments about it in this forum:

http://uadmin.blogspot.com/2006/04/boeing-797-details.html

EHM-1821 Javier:
I don't believe it, just seems a bit too fake...

EHM-1612 Paolo:
Impossible, but really nice...maybe in a smaller version can be prettier....something like a Crj-200 like that would be cool, but an other huge monster like the A380 no, please :]

EHM-0654 Murray:
Impossible... Not really. There have been military blended wing concepts since the late sixties, and the B2 (a Boeing co-design/manufacture, lest we forget) has been publicly flying since the first Gulf war.

While some of the science in the NewTechSpy article is questionable (50% efficiency improvements...) we can be certain that what with global warming and such, there is a strong desire within the aero industry to explore "extremes" in order to reduce the carbon footprint of commercial aircraft. Designs such as this may provide such a reduction.

But size-wise a smaller model would be nicer. :)

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