Assorted human interest posts.
June 17, 2014
Technical Airbus, amazon, business, Business News, Elon Musk, Elon Musk Flight, flying, Flying Cars, future of air travel, Future of Flying, Hotels, Huffpost Travel Click, human-rights, medicine, mental-health, proposed designs, research, Scared of flying, Science, Science News, technology, Technology News, Transparent Plane, travel, vacation 1 Comment
Scared of flying? Then you might not like the airplanes of the future.
Sure there are some terrifying-sounding features (transparent cabins and harvesting body heat) in the proposed designs for future planes, but the decisions to go greener are all ideas we can get behind.
January 28, 2014
Technical 755 passengers, active wings, advanced technologies, air travel, alloys, amazon, AWWA, AWWA “Sky Whale, AWWA-VA, “self-healing wings, business, Business News, carbon nanotube, ceramic, double fuselages, fiber composites, fiber optic cabling, flying behemoth, future of air travel, Hotels, human-rights, hybrid electric engines, international business times, medicine, mental-health, Oscar Viñals, research, Science, Science News, self-healing skin, Spanish, Spanish designer, technological innovation, technology, Technology News, travel, vacation, virtual reality, virtual reality windows Leave a comment
It’s got “self-healing wings,” “virtual reality windows,” room for up to 755 passengers and may just offer a glimpse into the future of air travel. Introducing the AWWA “Sky Whale,” a concept airplane from Spanish designer and aviation enthusiast Oscar Viñals that uses technological innovation to make air travel more efficient and eco-friendly.
Viñals claims his flying behemoth could, using a mix of existing and anticipated technology, reduce aircraft noise, drag, weight, fuel consumption and emissions. “The AWWA-VA could be equipped with new advanced technologies from alloys, ceramic or fiber composites, carbon nanotube and fiber optic cabling to self-healing skin, hybrid electric engines, active wings, double fuselages and virtual reality windows with adaptable opacity,” Viñals explains in his proposal.
