Airplane design could use 70 percent less fuel

A team at MIT has come up with designs for a new airplane paradigm that could fly on 70 percent less fuel than today’s aircraft.

(Credit:MIT/Aurora Flight Sciences)

Researchers at MIT say they have come up with designs for a new generation of commercial aircraft that could use as much as 70 percent less fuel than today’s airliners.

As part of a $2.1 million NASA grant, the MIT-led team said that its designs for a so-called “N

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