‐ Significantly reduces aircraft drag, improves fuel efficiency, and contributes to CO2 emissions reduction, marking a major milestone in sustainable aviation technology. - TOKYO, March 28, ...
In the quest for greater efficiency of large transport aircraft, efforts to reduce wing drag through conventional aerodynamic tweaks have largely been exhausted, in the view of Airbus senior ...
Airbus intends to later this month start flight-testing an A340 that has been fitted with experimental laminar-flow wing sections under a partially EU-funded technology project with other industrial ...