Is Airbus Hiding a REVOLUTION?!

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Who, or WHAT is the biggest threat to Airbus right now? With Boeing, in… quite some trouble, you would think that Airbus is sitting back, relaxed, making and selling planes as fast as possible. No need to worry about any “challengers”. Right?

Well actually, that’s NOT true, because Airbus and Boeing have another looming crisis to think about – a crisis that isn’t waiting for anyone. And as it turns out, behind closed doors, Airbus ARE working on a brand new aircraft design, to deal with it

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[PsRohrbaugh]

Boeing knows that the US government won't let them go out of business - it's too much of a strategic risk to lose domestic production of aircraft. Boeing has taken that complacency to heart.

Airbus has a new methodology called "tightening the bolts" which puts them several years ahead of Boeing.

[Horsefingerandthetaintwrights]

The main obstacle facing both Airbus and Boeing is gravity.

[MrKKUT]

The problem with most companies, especially big American companies is they are all about Wallstreet instead of making the best product possible.

[ivanviera]

Airbus CEO just said last week that they are working on the A320 successor.

[wiredforstereo]

This is the American way. Outsource everything, cut costs, cheap out, until the company goes bankrupt due to no one buying its substandard products, then take your golden parachute and move on to the next huge American manufacturer and do it again.

[TheJclanton]

Wish he still had the dogs wandering randomly through the video.

[KevinGenus]

I used to work for an Airbus startup. Airbus is a wonderful company. To answer your question, yes, and they're not hiding it. You can find the answers in their new air traffic control system.... ;)

[MrSpartanPaul]

I worked at McDonnell Douglas back in the 80s and the exposed fan (open rotor) engine concept was being put forth on the MD-80 at the time. It made sense on the MD-80 because the very dangerous fan blades were high off the ground, away from maintainers or other ground staff. It was felt that the noise and potential danger of a blade out event without any containment was deemed unfeasible. We'll see what happens with this latest attempt.

[dhruvasammeta]

It's really important for airbus to dedicate to ultrafan aircraft developement, as we've seen, when companies relax, stagnate, a company can fall apart (see: boeing vs airbus for the a320 neo, or intel vs amd with ryzen), and very fast, really good oversight on airbus's end to keep growing and great summary by the mentour team!

[martonlerant]

Well (under)wing engine placement offers the following benefits:

- since wings create lift, if you hang engines directly off them, you dont need to add extra material, to support and connect the weight of engines to the wing -> hence lighter aircraft (like the video said)

- engine in front of the wing is in clean air - that is not all swirly and stuff due to wing hutting it, as it has not YET reached the wing). When you have nice laminar flow propellers work more efficiently

- When air leaving the engine is hitting the wing (like with the setup seen in the video) you will get air (the air pushed by the engine) that moves faster than usual, thus generates more lift than usual.

Downside of the last point is that the fan blades also make the air all swirly, so right behind them wing is a tad bit less efficient.

However main benefit of last point is more lift at slow speeds, as engine pushes air over said part of the wing very fast even when aircraft has just slowly started rolling during takeoff.

Thus you get extra lift at slow speed, helping reduce takeoff distance.

[joebrito]

Imagine a tail strike on a Hydrogen plane and that plane blows up like a mini atomic bomb.

[thamiordragonheart]

There's another important reason to put the fans in front of the wings that I think you missed. If you put the fans behind the wings, the tip vortices from the fan blades interact with the vortex sheet coming off the back of the wing, which is impressively loud, just ask the Piaggio Avanti. The fans probably need to be in front to comply with noise regulations.
The flexible wingtips for load alleviation are so cool. it's something birds do. Now that we really know composites for commercial use better, I wouldn't be surprised if they also use a fancy layup for the wings that'll reduce the angle of attack on the outer portions of the wing as it flexes up to take the load alleviation a step farther. Would just need to design it so the flaps stiffen the whole wing when they're extended to keep the flex lower and AoA higher for takeoff and landing.

[Burzilman]

Even between doupoly, where no competitors exist, it is proven that innovation fetches profits, and there's no shortcut to success for innovation. Good work, Airbus!

[colinbondi]

I really love this channel. As an aviation enthusiast and private pilot I find the coverage of a variety of topics fascinating both on this channel and the other one. Really good job of the videos too and accurate information from an experienced pilot...thanks

[robertpierce]

Novium is the first ad I haven’t skipped through in awhile.

[ryanreedgibson]

You have taught me so much about flying, planes, policy, maintenance, and so much more. I'm not a pilot but you follow my same train of thought with no filler. Also, you don't have an American English or UK English accent which is refreshing.

[chengzi]

Boeing's gamble for Wall Street Wealth kinda Backfired

[sebastienroy]

I can add that, we are seeing more and more ads around Montreal, QC to recruit new Airbus Canada employees. This could possibly be linked to some futur ambitions for the A220 program