Airbus unveils 'blended wing body' plane design after secret flight tests

Kenichi ever heard of Musk's The Boring Company? It has tried to get approvals in multiple cities, but came against political issues which will take many years before approve, if ever.

Boeing is right. Humans won't like the extra movement when off the center-line of the aircraft. It is common for commercial aircraft wings to bend 2m+ during flight. That's fun for 3 minutes, not 2 hours. Cargo. That's where this sort of aircraft fits, but most cargo planes are older, converted, passenger planes.

Sure, there are specialized cargo planes too, but those are expensive compared to used planes.

As HS2 (High Speed 2 is a partly planned high speed railway) is topical in the UK, I wounder if any Secret rail transportation is being planned.

How good are we with laying pipes and digging grounds? Like the pipeline network for oil, could we create spaghetti of pipes to transport vehicles inside the tube ?

Imagine Hadron Collider type thing that you can zoom you from A to B.

Give several window view options in the seatback monitor as they do nowadays. No need for anything in the 'walls'.

If it works, then well done!

If the wings and entire top of the aircraft was covered in a solar panel, when in daylight they could supply all or part of the electricity needed for passengers and equipment meaning even less fuel used. Even have a couple of emergency propellers that can be powered off the solar panels for an emergency landing if the jets fail or fuel is empty. Obviously when using the propellers in an emergency all the solar power is used for that and all other electronics shut down.

I guess who looks out the window anyway

And why not? It takes about a week to build a hospital in China.

Boeing/NASA has a model and been flying it for years.

Airports will need to re-design the gantry boarding system from scratch if they adopt this type of plane as well.

Is it a bird? Is it an aeroplane? Noooou, in future I plan to fly Alice with MagniX engine equipped too, London to Berlin about 20 people.

Smaller aircraft carrying less weight, shorter distance could be an answer (in more nearer future) than bigger aircraft. Are they designed to carry people or cargo?...

It will mess up my plan (travel industry) with smaller aircraft flying about all over the places.... Now how can I plan a leisurely itinerary when I need to persuade city planners to dig more airstrips ?

It's called Alice and models are given names, usually known by numbers like Airbus' A380, or Boeing's 737 MAX (code-named Maveric looks superb)