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Airframe Technology for Energy Efficient Transport Aircraft
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Fuel costs comprise a major portion of air transport operating costs. Thus, energy efficiency is an essential design goal for future transport aircraft. Advanced composite structures, advanced wing geometries, and active control systems all promise substantial benefits in fuel efficiency and direct operating cost for derivative and new aircraft introduced by 1985. Technology for maintenance of a laminar boundary layer in cruise offers great benefits in fuel efficiency and direct operating cost and may be ready for application to transports introduced in the 1990's. NASA and the air transport industry are cooperating in a comprehensive Aircraft Energy Efficiency Program to expedite the introduction of these advanced technologies into production aircraft.
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Leonard, R. and Wagner, R., "Airframe Technology for Energy Efficient Transport Aircraft," SAE Technical Paper 760929, 1976, https://doi.org/10.4271/760929.Also In
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