A V-shaped airliner that seats passengers in the wings instead of a central fuselage could make long-distance air travel more sustainable — and it’s more than pie in the sky. The Dutch airline KLM ...

How would you feel about flying in an airplane’s wing, the place where we all know fuel is usually stored? Because that’s exactly what you’ll do in the not so distant future if Dutch airline KLM has ...

"The Flying V" certainly helped the guitar industry take off in a new direction, but can the "Flying V" actually fly? Dutch airline KLM has teamed up with researchers at Delft University of Technology ...

Last year we caught wind of an interesting aviation concept cooked up by engineers at TU Delft, which consisted of a novel V-shaped design that promises significant efficiency gains over conventional ...

The development of a V-shaped, fuel-efficient airplane design known as the Flying-V is getting a boost with the announcement that Dutch national carrier KLM Royal Dutch Airlines will help to fund it.

After a tough year in aviation—the grounding of the Boeing 737 MAX after two fatal crashes, the crashing of airline computer systems across the U.S., the announcement of the end of the superjumbo ...

Researchers have conducted a successful maiden flight of the Flying-V, a futuristic and fuel efficient airplane that could one day carry passengers in its wings. The Flying-V’s unique design places ...

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On Monday, news started to spread about a radical new design of passenger plane. Shaped like the letter V, (and called the Flying-V), it does away with a conventional fuselage and even the middle bit ...

Praise be Loudwire writer Chad Childers for this gorgeously executed opening line: “‘The Flying V’ certainly helped the guitar industry take off in a new direction, but can the ‘Flying V’ actually fly ...