Tests Keep Aurora D8’s Double-Bubble Design On Track

Credit: Aurora Flight Sciences
Commercial aircraft have fuselages with cross-sections that are circular—or slight variations on circular—for one reason. Cylindrical structures provide the lightest way to carry the loads from pressurization of the fuselage. But designers are revisiting the traditional tube-and-wing airliner in...

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