Russia’s TsAGI Fine-Tunes Future Super-Heavy Freighter Aerodynamics

Slon freighter concept
Slon freighter concept
Credit: TsAGI
Russia’s TsAGI Central Institute of Aerohydrodynamics has modified the airframe configuration of its super-heavy transport aircraft concept, dubbed Slon (Elephant). The designers expanded the fuselage cross-section to enable the transportation of oversize cargo, and downsized the wind-to-body...

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