Flying-Vs and longer wings: how the familiar shape of passenger planes is about to change

The Guardian - Urgent search for better fuel efficiency to cut emissions is driving radical innovation in aircraft design Almost everybody on the planet knows what a passenger aeroplane looks like. Its shape hasnmp;#146;t changed for decades.Take the worldmp;#146;s bestselling liner, the Boeing 737: the first model in 1967 looks roughly the same as the latest version, the 737 Max. Yet that extraordinary run may be about to change as manufacturers look at a new wave of innovations that could literally change the shape of aviation. Continue reading...