The lithium-ion batteries used in Boeing's 787 Dreamliner are central to the design of a plane which is billed as being lighter and 20% more fuel efficient than earlier generations of jet.
Honda mounted the jet's engines on top of the wings and close to the body of the plane, a foolish design, most airplane experts would say.
The plane's racy design, smooth fiberglass-composite body, BMW-like interior, dazzling computer instrumentation and an onboard parachute ready to float both the plane and passengers to a life-saving landing, if necessary, formed a clean break from the past.
It comes after US authorities started a joint review with Boeing of the plane's manufacturing, design and assembly.
In April a customer wiped out spectacularly in Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay after altering the design of the plane.
The design of the plane itself inside is reminiscent of an ultra lounge.
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By using lightweight aerospace materials like carbon fiber, which has the strength of steel but weighs a fifth as much, naval architects can design boats that plane across the surface of the water instead of plowing through it.
By using lightweight aerospace materials like carbon fiber, which has the strength of steel but weighs one-fifth as much, naval architects can design boats that plane across the surface of the water instead of plowing through it.
Lindbergh's name was yet to be uttered by a single delegate, and because of an engineering conclave at a midwestern factory where he'd been advising on the design of a new fighter plane, he wasn't present or expected to be.
Boeing is again using Catia software for much of the structural design of its new 7E7 jet, but it is using Thinkid for the plane's cabin plans because of the software's flexibility in making changes.
So far, the regulator has discovered that the Boston fire was caused by a short circuit within one of the cells of the plane's multi-cellular batteries, and that a fault in the battery's design allowed the resulting overheating to spread to the other cells.
Also in design: the Fozzie, a concept plane by Boeing Phantom Works.
Airbus reworked the design, configurations and technology to increase the plane's range and efficiency.
While aeronautic design has come far since the advent of the passenger jet plane, making them lighter and more efficient, many designers feel that we've gone about as far as we can go with cigar-shaped fuselages and under-wing engines.
In 1935, U.S. millionaire Howard Hughes flew a plane of his own design at 352.46 mph to establish the first of his several aviation records.
The design, a more radical triangular wing-body shape, combines the plane's fuselage with the wings and has no tail.
The design of the roof is inspired by a Wellington aircraft and incorporates sections of aluminum recovered from a plane that was shot down over Belgium on May 12, 1944, killing its crew of eight.
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