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Flying-Vs and longer wings: how the familiar shape of passenger planes is about to change
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 hasn’t changed for decades.
Take the world’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.
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