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Technologies and Concepts for Reducing the Fuel Burn of Subsonic Transport Aircraft

Author
Nickol, Craig L.
Published
October 22, 2012.
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There are many technologies under development that have the potential to enable large fuel burn reductions in the 2025 timeframe for subsonic transport aircraft relative to the current fleet. This paper identifies a potential technology suite and analyzes the fuel burn reduction potential of these technologies when integrated into advanced subsonic transport concepts. Advanced tube-and-wing concepts are developed in the single aisle and large twin aisle class, and a hybrid-wing-body concept is developed for the large twin aisle class. The resulting fuel burn reductions for the advanced tube-and-wing concepts range from a 42% reduction relative to the 777-200 to a 44% reduction relative to the 737-800. In addition, the hybrid-wingbody design resulted in a 47% fuel burn reduction relative to the 777-200. Of course, to achieve these fuel burn reduction levels, a significant amount of technology and concept maturation is required between now and 2025. A methodology for capturing and tracking concept maturity is also developed and presented in this paper.
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NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Collection.
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Document ID: 20120016006.
NF1676L-15121.
NATO AVT-209 Workshop on Energy Efficient Technologies; 22-24 Oct. 2012; Lisbon; Portugal.
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