| When airliners crash often many people die, and | | | | wing design? Could be but, realize the other issue; |
| depending on the angle of impact sometimes there | | | | people wish to fly in an aircraft that looks like an |
| are no survivors, some aerospace engineers believe | | | | airplane, and people have come to assume airplanes |
| the real problem is in the way aircraft are designed, | | | | are suppose to look a certain way. Public perception |
| that is to say fuel inside the belly or fuselage. The | | | | is finicky that way. |
| long tubular design is also problematic, as it tends to | | | | One issue with the Bernoulli Blended Wing airliner |
| break apart allowing any fire to fill the fuselage, | | | | concept is that it might not be so good for |
| where the people are with smoke and fuel that is on | | | | passengers, as they have no ability to see out. Still, |
| fire. | | | | this problem could be solved as the top of the cabin |
| At least one group has claimed that the Burnelli Wing | | | | could and sides could become a flat panel display and |
| Design is a better because it has the fuel in the | | | | merely display a video what's outside on the walls |
| wings and the engines in the fuselage, meaning the | | | | and ceiling, even better than the view of today's |
| main point for ignition of a fire, the engines are | | | | airliners. |
| separated from the fuel. Conventional airliners, have | | | | Now then, there was an aircraft recently that feel |
| the fuel in the wings and fuselage, and the engines | | | | short of the runway in Europe that broke apart, and |
| on the wing, thus a fire is inevitable once the wings | | | | that was unfortunate, there were deaths. And you |
| come apart on impact during a crash. | | | | can build a better structure or design than a long |
| Indeed, I have a few comments about this, in that it | | | | skinny tube of tooth paste, with wings on it, but |
| appears to me that this whole broken fuselage thing | | | | there are also trade offs for other things. In that |
| might be over played. Remember the Hudson River | | | | crash a Bernoulli Design may not have crashed in the |
| landing, the aircraft stayed intact. Now, there is a | | | | first place and it probably would have broken apart |
| famous NASA Crash test of an airliner coming apart | | | | either. |
| and instantly cooking all the "Dummy Passenger | | | | Still, in the end all aerospace engineers must agree |
| Manikins" inside; still, in the NASA crash they | | | | that each aircraft design is a giant compromise of |
| purposely dipped a wing, as it hit the ground, which | | | | physics and until we build shape shifting wings, we |
| made for a spectacular explosion, and when aircraft | | | | are going to have to keep trading off. Please |
| tumbled; well what can you expect? | | | | consider all this. |
| Does this mean that we should switch to the flying | | | | |