The Amazing Plane of the Future - Designer's Vision
This concept is really something people have never seen before. It's called WB-1010 (the abbreviation stands for Wright Brothers) and it is currently only a concept since it will be created from materials that are yet to be developed and with the use of revolutionary technology.
The WB-1010 future plane is expected to provide a high speed of around 1,000 km/h, a lot of comfort and space for 1,500 people. The project has been submitted to the KLM Indonesia aircraft design competition.
For the concept the designer Reindy Allendra thought about using materials such as GLARE ("GLAss-Reinforced" Fibre Metal Laminate (FML)), made of several thin layers of metal (generally aluminum) mixed together with layers of glass-fiber "pre-preg", tied with a matrix similar to epoxy that is currently used on another giant plane today - Airbus A380.
In order to make the plane of the future lighter, the designer though of injecting helium in the body of WB-1010. The windows will be made of "Smart Glass", which is also known as smart window. This type of glass is able to change light transmission properties after voltage is applied. The plane will produce energy in flight and will be able to land both ways, like traditional planes (on a runway) or like helicopters - vertically.
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//5 Nov 18, 2009 07:04 AM | posted by:
mrexcellent [InfoTOT]
- no way this machine is going to exist... at least, not for transporting people on earth... maybe for intergalactic or interplanetary transportation. judging by the way it looks, it's going to be huge, hence it's impossibility of operation on earth and transporting people from point A on planet Earth to point B on the other side of planet Earth.
and I absolutely agree with Mark - true words! - 1 votes
//4 Nov 15, 2009 02:18 PM | posted by: somguy - There isn't enough volume of helium to carry as many people as the rendering suggests. Not even close.
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//3 Nov 14, 2009 11:15 AM | posted by: mark - There is plenty of oil and natural gas is a true statement. But the law of supply and demand means that when demand goes up and supply does not, prices skyrocket.
Now lets look at the real world. The easy to get oil is very limited on this planet. Even in Alaska. It's very limited. But there are tons of harder to get fossil fuels. This raises the price substantially. If China ever reaches automobile usage as compared to the USA there goes every drop of easy oil out there, and there goes lots of that harder to get oil. But guess what, even if China just reaches 1/10th the auto usage as America, there is not enough easy to get oil.
Thus, the price of oil will skyrocket. So the issue is not whether we will have oil in 50 years, because we absolutely will. So from that perspective you can "Quit worrying".
But just think how different the world will be when the price of oil is $500 a barrel. This means the price of a loaf of bread with be about $40. A gallon a milk $50. So from that perspective, I'd say, time to worry. And we need to worry because of people like NatGas who are preventing this nation from screaming forward to deal with a very real looming crisis. The days of cheap oil are numbered. And we are far from a replacement because of all the naysayers that say don't worry. And many of those naysayers are funded by those who are profiting, and stand to profit even more, by that very nay-saying. - 2 votes
//2 Nov 14, 2009 10:25 AM | posted by: NatGas - There is plenty of oil and natural gas to last for the next 100 years! Yes, it will run out eventually, but not any time soon. Quit worrying.
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//1 Nov 14, 2009 10:16 AM | posted by: SzJZ18WK - Oil is running out! Solar generated H2 for lift? Fuel? The rest seems oil based and with the new Asian Fact, oil on earth will be short lived! Even coal will become rare, and Uranium reactors may go searching for fuel in fifty years, Thorium bed reactors from India, and new technologies yet unheard of from the primarily vegan Asian intelligensia will likely replace the older American paradigms in a world wide revolution in Sciences, Physics! I will live to see but the opening of this curtain, I thank you for this glimpse!
