Wait . . . I thought this was just computer art

[EddMarkStarr]

18 JAN 2023

NASA issued an award to Boeing Aircraft for the "Sustainable Flight Demonstrator Project", which uses a new wing design promising to cut fuel use by as much as 10% for a new generation of single-aisle airliners. Under the Funded Space Act Agreement, Boeing will work with NASA to build, test, and fly a full-scale demonstrator aircraft called the "Boeing Transonic Truss-Braced Wing" aircraft and validate technologies aimed at lowering emissions and fuel consumption. NASA will invest $425 million, while Boeing and its partners will contribute the remaining $725 million.

 

[rareboy]

It is still just computer art. I suspect this will be a ten year project.

 

[Peloso]

It is still just computer art. I suspect this will be a ten year project.

It would take half that time to build a more accessible railway system but that won't happen because trains are slow and boring and Americans are spoiled cunts.

Making fuel efficient planes to help stop the climate crisis is like making smaller guns to combat gun violence.