The Aircraft of the future?! MAVERIC

Will the flying wing or the Blended wing/body concept become the airliners of the future? In todays video I will be describing the many benefits and challenges with this type of aircraft.
There are many, many possibilities with new types of aircraft designs and I hope we get to see more of this kind of "thinking outside the box" from the major aircraft manufacturers. Great stuff!

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A huge "Thank you!" to the featured videso and articles in todays video. Use the links below for the full versions of the videos.

Espaciao de Aviation (MAVERIC by Airbus)

UK Aviation Movies (B2 bomber landing)

Documentary HD Online (YB49 flying wing)

That smelly skunk from Palmdale (YB 49)

Hübner group (Passenger boarding interface)

Extreme Tech

Wikipedia

ICAS.org (feasibility of flying wing)

[kkarllwt]

I would build a big cargo aircraft to start. Most cargo doesn't need pressure. ( the center could be pressurized . an inner tube ) cargo doesn't need emergency exits, sound padding. toilets or galleys. cargo doesn't get sick.

[chriswall]

I do have to admit I watch all the videos on concepts like this and to hear views from a professional like yourself is fascinating, please do more!

[RandomTorok]

i'm imagining an emergency water landing, be like skipping stones at the beach. LOL

[erikz]

We need to think outside of the box. . to build a flying box 🙂

[adamsnyder]

This will easily make my top 5 Mentour videos! Very well executed! You’ve let us see the balance between cost effectiveness within the airlines vs passenger comfort, as well as various upgrades that need to be made before this all happens. That B2 is a sight to behold and really embraces the progression of aviation, which I very much look forward to in my aviation career. Very intriguing. Definitely a possibility for the future!

P.S... glad to see you’re feeling much better 😄

[Calliopa_]

I would imagine that if the engines were mounted above the wing, you would be able to attach a large loading tube to the rear of the cabin/wing. It would make embarking and disembarking much faster (it would also look really cool!).

[chadportenga]

10:15 Thanks for the explanation about VR, Simulators, and the motion sickness resulting from them. I remember getting nauseous at Disney World on a simulator and never knew why it happened so fast. I rarely got sick on rides, but the simulator kicked me in the gut!

[ThomasJoshua]

Another great video! Thanks again! Very interesting insight, and all the more inspiring to make more of my own videos! Good luck!

[karlp]

The weight/volume/drag ratios of the blended wing blows current designs out of the window. On the evacuation side, large doors/ramps can be installed in the very rear of the plane (a good location for egress anyway) which is currently not an option on planes. Studies have actually found the effects of being further away from the CoG on a blended wing design is pretty trivial. he way they turn has more of a pendulum effect (vertical G load) and has less yaw than a conventional plane.

[copuis]

another BIG bonus with the engines being on top is noise,
those living near an airport wont see (or hear) any major change, however those living near a flight path, this will make a massive difference!!

[tvflight]

13:40
Ryanair: I'll take your entire stock!

[alexogle]

"...especially now with the passengers becoming more spread out..."
Sorry, which airline is this?

[gmoops]

This seems like a cool concept. The image flashed a few times of passenger seating, looks more like a cocktail lounge. Fat chance of that as a reality.

[lolsharkb]

Been seeing blended wing airliners touted as "the future" for 30 years...

[Live.Vibe.Lasers]

So when I was at Kennedy Space Center as a kid..the F16 simulator attraction was a small hydraulic platform probably not unlike the flight sims. Well something malfunctioned that day and what I was seeing on the screen did NOT match the accelerations I was feeling and..I got very sick. I hit the "I'm sick button", the door popped OPEN in the middle of some pretty rapid movement of the platform, and I think my dad reached over the "attendant" and hit the ESTOP on the attendants panel and grabbed me out. That attraction was closed for maintenance for the rest of that day.

[williamswenson]

It is of particular interest to me that you touched on the conflicting perceptions between the visual and balance systems of the body that would be experienced when flying in this type of aircraft. This point is overlooked in every other discussion about blended body aircraft that I've ever listened to. You also pointed to the advantages of moving the high bypass turbofans to the "DC-10" position on the aircraft. A very informative and concise video; thanks. W

[jdriley]

I remember seeing a Popular Science article back in the 90s about blended wing commercial aircraft, it was very positive that in the next decade we'd have those planes everywhere.

[manvikgoyal]

Pls make a video on how to flare aircraft properly while landing

[cmulder]

Search for "KLM" and "Future plane" and you end up with many articles about another program exploring the lifting body/ delta/ nurflugel conecpt. They also made mock up interiors for testing how people would like it inside.

[Rekuzan]

He's absolutely right in that the problem with virtual windows is the lag time causing nausea can easily be fixed w/ more technical solutions; IE: Fiber-optics coupled w/ rad hardened electronics.